{"nrhp_refnum":"86001683","name":"Kirkland Place Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Kirkland Pl.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.37804300000005,"lon":-71.11305070486422,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small residential historic district on Kirkland Place, a short cul-de-sac in the Mid-Cambridge area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard University. It has seven houses built between 1839 and 1921, most of them in the 1850s.","why_significant":"The district is described as the most architecturally distinguished street in the Shady Hill area and the only intact enclave surviving from \"Professors' Row.\" It has six mid-19th-century houses in Bracketed Italianate, Mansard and Greek Revival styles. One of them, the Loring-Pierce House, is an early Mansard design by Henry Greenough. The form finds the district significant for mid-19th-century residential architecture (Criterion C).","narrative":"Kirkland Place is a quiet cul-de-sac of seven houses close to Harvard University in Mid-Cambridge. The street was platted in the mid-1850s by local architect and builder Isaac Cutler, who designed four Bracketed Italianate houses there. The earliest house, a Greek Revival dwelling built by John Ware in 1839 for his daughters, was moved back on its lot to make room for Cutler's work. The best-known building is the Loring-Pierce House of 1856, an early Mansard-style design by amateur architect Henry Greenough and the only survivor of four Mansard houses he designed in Cambridge. Early owners included a judge and a mathematics professor, though most were not connected with Harvard. A small brick house of 1921 is the only later addition and is not intrusive because of its size and setback. Sheltered from busy Kirkland Street, the street keeps its mid-nineteenth-century residential character and is the only intact enclave surviving from Professors' Row.","period_of_significance":"1839-1857","architect_builder":"Isaac Cutler (builder/architect of four houses); Henry Greenough (architect, 4 Kirkland Place); John Ware (built 14 Kirkland Place, 1839); Ernest R. Seaverns (builder, 11 Kirkland Place, 1921)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th-century residential styles: Bracketed Italianate, Mansard, Greek Revival; one Neo-Georgian house (1921)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition is described as good to excellent; all houses are in private residential use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.011823-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/7910/63791088/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/86001683.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001683/28d0a77c31-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001683/28d0a77c31-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CambridgeMA_KirklandPlaceHD.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CambridgeMA_KirklandPlaceHD.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791088","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkland_Place_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6415742"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/kirkland-place-historic-district-86001683/"}