{"nrhp_refnum":"82001924","name":"Bottle House Block","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"204-214 3rd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.36737550600003,"lon":-71.08077337199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-house brick row at 204-214 Third Street in East Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, built in 1826 by Edmund Monroe and Deming Jarvis. It is used for commercial and residential purposes.","why_significant":"The row is the third oldest remaining building in East Cambridge and one of six surviving Federal period brick houses from the days of the Lechmere Point Corporation. It was built as a tavern house on the main road between the West Boston Bridge and the Courthouse. A federal reviewer noted that the statement of significance is weak but found the block significant for its role in community development and growth of the area.","narrative":"Six attached brick houses at 204-214 Third Street in East Cambridge make up the building known in early deeds as the tavern house, or the Bottle House Block. Edmund Monroe and Deming Jarvis built the row in 1826 along the lower part of what was then called Court Street. Jarvis was a principal in the New England Glass Works and took part in many East Cambridge real estate transactions. When the row went up, the site lay at the edge of the community, but it sat on the main road from the West Boston Bridge to the Courthouse, which the builders presumably judged a good location for a tavern. Designed in a Late Georgian/Federal style by an unknown architect, the block is the third oldest remaining building in East Cambridge and one of six surviving Federal period brick houses from the era of the Lechmere Point Corporation. It remains unaltered and still serves commercial and residential uses, and it was listed for its role in the area's community development.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Edmund Monroe and Deming Jarvis (original owners and builders); architect unknown","architectural_style":"Late Georgian/Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Present use is commercial/residential, the same as its original use; the form records no alterations and no move.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.072922-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/7905/63790506/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/82001924.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001924/f37de7d715-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001924/f37de7d715-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tim Pierce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bottle_Street_Block.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Pierce</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bottle_Street_Block.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790506","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_House_Block","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4949039"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/bottle-house-block-82001924/"}