The Cheney Read House is an historic house at 135 Western Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in 1846 by William Hyde, and is the only house in Cambridge's Cambridgeport neighborhood with a two-story Greek portico. It has four full-height Doric columns, with a gable end that is steeper than the usual Greek Revival style. It has a side-entry plan, with the entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a pedimented lintel.[2]
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| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°21′54.5″N 71°06′30.7″W / 42.365139°N 71.108528°W |
| Built | 1846 |
| Architect | Hyde, William |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| MPS | Cambridge MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 82001971 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 13, 1982 |
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Cheney Read House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-22.