The James B. Barnes House is an historic house at 109 Hampshire Street,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1824 and moved to its present location in 1984, it is one of the only brick
Federal-style
Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was heavily based on the works of Andrea Palladio with several inn ...
houses left in Cambridge, and is a rare survivor of the early period of development in
East Cambridge.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Description and history
The James Barnes House now stands in Cambridge's
Wellington-Harrington neighborhood, set facing west on the north side of Hampshire Street between Columbia and Union Streets. It is a -story brick structure, with a side gable roof. It is five bays wide and two deep, with a center entrance set in an opening with a Federal style fanlight.
[
The house was built in 1824 for an English glassmaker employed at the New England Glass Company. In 1910 it was moved within its original lot facing ]Monsignor O'Brien Highway
Route 28 is a nominally south–north state highway in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, running from the town of Eastham via Boston to the New Hampshire state line in Methuen. Following the route from its nominally southern end, Route 28 ...
to accommodate a road widening project. It was moved to its present location in 1984. The house is distinctive in Cambridge as a rare example Federal period brick architecture, the only such example with a fanlight above the entrance. It is also one of the few residential buildings to survive from the early years of East Cambridge's development.[
]
See also
*
* J. H. Hobbs, Brockunier and Company
References
Cambridge Historical Commission
{{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1824
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Federal architecture in Massachusetts