{"nrhp_refnum":"82001917","name":"Athenaeum Press","other_names":["Cuneo Press"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"215 1st St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.370221865000076,"lon":-71.08766837599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Athenaeum Press is an industrial printing plant at 215 First Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the banks of the Charles River. Built in 1895 for Ginn and Company to a design by Lockwood, Greene & Co., it is a brick mill-construction building.","why_significant":"The building represents Cambridge's role as a major printing and publishing center, as the third and last of the city's major printing establishments after Riverside Press and Harvard University Press. It is also one of the earliest and largest industrial plants along the reclaimed riverfront and a good local example of nineteenth century mill construction. The reviewer judged it locally significant.","narrative":"Athenaeum Press is a large brick industrial complex at 215 First Street in Cambridge, built in 1895 beside the Charles River for Ginn and Company, well-known publishers of school books. It was designed by Lockwood, Greene & Co., mill engineers of wide repute, and continues nineteenth century mill-construction techniques. The architects aimed for efficient, economical manufacturing and for worker health and safety, applying the latest ideas in ventilation, plumbing, lighting and fireproofing. Because the plant is highly visible from the Longfellow Bridge, it was given numerous stylistic embellishments, including a statue of Athena that has since been removed. It was the third and last of the major printing establishments to locate in Cambridge, following Riverside Press and Harvard University Press, and it is among the earliest and largest industrial plants on the reclaimed riverfront. Reviewers considered it locally significant for its tie to the city's book publishing industry and as a good example of mill construction.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Lockwood, Greene, & Co.","architectural_style":"Mill Construction","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as industrial in present use (then Cuneo Press); the statue of Athena has been removed.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.237825-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/7904/63790492/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/82001917.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001917/58d1928705-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001917/58d1928705-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Tim Pierce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Athenaeum_Press_building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Pierce</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Athenaeum_Press_building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790492","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenaeum_Press","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4813397"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/athenaeum-press-82001917/"}