The Benjamin Silverman Apartments are a historic multifamily residential building at 50-52 Lorne Street and 4 Wilson Street in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1915, it is a good example of period Colonial Revival architecture, built during a major period of Jewish migration to the neighborhood. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.[1]
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| Location | 50-52 Lorne & 4 Wilson Sts., Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°17′38″N 71°5′29″W / 42.29389°N 71.09139°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1915 |
| Architect | Hutch, William P. |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 100002790[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 24, 2018 |
Description and history edit
The Benjamin Silverman Apartments are located at the southwest corner of Lorne and Wilson Street, two residential dead-end streets off Harvard Street south of Franklin Park. It is a three-story masonry structure, built out of red brick, with wood and stone trim. Its main elevations are crowned by a projecting cornice with modillion blocks, and windows are set in rectangular openings with stone sills and lintels. The Lorne Street facade is organized similar to a pair of attached triple decker houses, one set back slightly, with mirror-image organization. Each section has two bays, one housing the entrance for that section, and the other a projecting polygonal window bay. The Wilson Street facade functions as an extension of the rightmost section, with seven bays and an entrance at their center.[2]
The apartment house was built in 1915 to a design by William P. Hutch, with "A. Silverman" as its first owner. At the time the neighborhood in which it stood would have been built up with similar buildings; it is now the only one remaining. Its early occupants were mostly Russian Jewish immigrants, part of a second wave of Jewish migration to various Boston neighborhoods, particularly in the aftermath of the devastating Great Chelsea fire of 1908, which displaced thousands of Jews.[2]
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References edit
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b "MACRIS inventory record for 50-52 Lorne Street". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2018-08-24.