Munroe Building
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| Location | 1227--1259 Hancock St., Quincy, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°15′7″N 71°0′15″W / 42.25194°N 71.00417°W / 42.25194; -71.00417 |
| Area | 1.2 acres (0.49 ha) |
| Built | 1929 |
| Architect | Shepard & Stearns |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| MPS | Quincy MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 89001349[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 20, 1989 |
The Munroe Building is a historic commercial building at 1227-1259 Hancock Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built in 1929 to a design by Shepard & Stearns, it is the best-preserved of two adjacent Colonial Revival two-story commercial blocks built on Hancock Street in the 1920s. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
The Munroe Building is set on the southwest side of Hancock Street in downtown Quincy, between the street and the Quincy Center MBTA station. To its southeast is a public park, with Quincy City Hall at the far end. It is a rectangular two-story structure, faced in brick with stone trim. The street and park-facing facades are similar, with commercial storefronts on the ground floor that are predominantly 1980s vintage glass and aluminum. The upper level is characterized by a series of gables, each of which has a central window topped by a blind round arch, and flanking sash windows, in a variant of the Palladian window concept. The central window is surrounded by a garland. Between the gable sections are smaller sections with single sash windows that have blind segmented-arch tops.[2]
The Colonial Revival building was designed by Shepard & Stearns and built in 1929. Then, as now, it housed retail stores on the ground floor and professional offices above. It was built by Henry Munroe Faxon, a major real estate owner of the period. The Dimmock Building, a block down Hancock Street, is another Colonial Revival building from 1929; it has been substantially altered.[2]
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References
- 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Munroe Building". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved June 4, 2014.