This spacious, south-facing, South-End style, single-family brick rowhouse is just steps from Harvard Square. Built in 1868, the house has lovely Victorian detail, including 10? ceilings with carved plaster moldings, ceiling medallions, and ornamental marble fireplace.
There are 4 bedrooms, 2 studies, 3 full baths, 1 half bath, formal dining room, living room, large kitchen with dining area, beautifully finished lower level, lovely fenced yard, parking for two cars side by side.
Please stop by the open house on Sunday, October 22nd from 2:00 - 3:30 at 423 Broadway in Cambridge
Number 423 Broadway is a well-preserved brick rowhouse built in 1868, one of only a few brick homes built in Cambridge in the 19th century. It is one in a row of six houses, adjacent to several other short rows which continue around the corner on Dana Street, giving the neighborhood the look and feel of Boston?
s South End, including the red brick sidewalks. This row has a private alley way off of Broadway, which leads into a secluded tree-filled back parking area, and each house has its own fenced backyard. These houses are unique, as there are very few single-family brick homes of this vintage in Cambridge, and almost none of this size.
These post-civil war homes have a unique past as well. In 1920, Harvard College banned black students from living in Harvard Yard, in an apparent attempt to appease southern white students. These African-American Harvard students were welcomed into these townhouses, which were only a short walk to the college, and made this row of antique brick houses on Broadway a future legacy.
These bright and capable students were roommates and apparently had a lively social life as well, playing poker together and having grand discussions, and many went on to distinguished careers. Among the African ?American students who lived and studied in these row houses were Ralph Bunche, the former UN secretary and Nobel Peace Prize winner, and William Hastie, who later became a US Supreme Court Justice.
Other rowhouses housed Lewis Reading, who later served as an attorney in the landmark case, Brown vs. the Board of Education, and Robert Weaver, an economics major who went on to become the first African-American member of a presidential cabinet. Other prominent figures have called these houses home, including the late Joan Lorentz, founder of the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association, after whom the nearby park is named.
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