The Upham's Corner Market is an historic commercial building at 600 Columbia Road in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is actually three separate buildings built c. 1919, 1923, and 1926. They were built by brothers John and Paul Cifrino, who were Italian immigrants. They established a small neighborhood grocery store in 1915, before building this series of buildings to house what became an early

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. After the third section was built, the store had of space, and was the largest store of its kind in the city, serving a nearby population of more than 250,000. The buildings have been converted to mixed commercial and residential use. The building was listed on the

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in 1990.

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Commercial buildings completed in 1919 Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Boston Retail buildings in Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Boston Dorchester, Boston Grocery store buildings {{Boston-struct-stub

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