Gray Gardens East and West Historic District

Gray Gardens East and West Historic District

The park at Gray Gardens West
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°23′1″N 71°7′43″W / 42.38361°N 71.12861°W / 42.38361; -71.12861Coordinates: 42°23′1″N 71°7′43″W / 42.38361°N 71.12861°W / 42.38361; -71.12861
Architect Putnam & Cox; Et al.
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Other
MPS Cambridge MRA
NRHP Reference #

86001283

[1]
Added to NRHP May 19, 1986

The Gray Gardens East and West Historic District is a historic district encompassing an early 20th century residential subidivision in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The subdivision includes all of the properties on Gray Gardens (East and West), as well as the adjacent 91 Garden Street and 60 Raymond Street. The subdivision was created by a group of interested individuals who sought to control development of one of the last estates in the area to be developed. They subdivided the land themselves, and imposed architectural restrictions on what could be built. Most of the houses were built between 1922 and 1930 and are neo-Georgian in style; the principal exception is the Hall Tavern, a Federal style tavern built in the 1790s and moved to the area from Duxbury, Massachusetts. The other unusual house is at 16 Gray Gardens East; it is a Tudor Revival house.[2]

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

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  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "MACRIS inventory record for Gray Gardens East and West Historic District". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-11.


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