{"nrhp_refnum":"83000815","name":"Lowell, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"33 Lexington Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.37709537300003,"lon":-71.13975920999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-06-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-frame Colonial Revival three-decker apartment building at 33 Lexington Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, built in 1900 for James M. Hilton and designed by local architect John A. Hasty.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an exceptional, elaborately detailed example of the three-decker type in the Colonial Revival style. It represents an unusual effort to make a middle-class housing type socially acceptable, and it is unique as multi-family housing in the Brattle Street neighborhood. It is listed under Criterion A for its role in Cambridge's development and Criterion C for its type and style.","narrative":"Built in 1900 at 33 Lexington Avenue in Cambridge, The Lowell is a wood-frame apartment building that applies Colonial Revival design to a three-decker form. Local architect John A. Hasty designed it for original owner James M. Hilton. Its details include elliptical windows, applied garlands and wreaths, an over-scale swan's neck pediment at the second story repeated at the roofline, and monumental fluted columns with Scamozzi capitals. Side porches, rather than the usual front porches, give it a five-bay facade. The building stands three doors from Brattle Street. It went up when residents of that street were resisting conversion of the horse car line to electric streetcars, and the line was moved elsewhere. The nomination describes it as an effort to embellish a middle-class housing type, unique as multi-family housing in the Brattle Street neighborhood. A survey of Cambridge architecture called it the most extraordinary double four-decker in the city. It remains in residential use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John A. Hasty (architect)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential, the same as its original use as apartments; 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 02:11:56.696331-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/7904/63790432/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000815.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000815/f307a59a97-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000815/f307a59a97-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Daderot","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Lowell,_33_Lexington_Avenue,_Cambridge,_MA_-_IMG_4290.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Daderot</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Lowell,_33_Lexington_Avenue,_Cambridge,_MA_-_IMG_4290.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790432","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lowell","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7749114"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/lowell-the-83000815/"}