Harrison Loring House

The Harrison Loring House is a historic house at 789 East Broadway in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is a 2-1/2 story brick mansion, with a mansard roof in the Second Empire style. It has brownstone trim around the windows, a modillioned cornice, and a projecting center section with its entrance sheltered by a shallow portico. It was built in 1865 for Harrison Loring, owner of the City Point Iron Works, a major South Boston shipyard, at which steamships were built in the late 19th century. Loring lived in this house until 1894.[2]

Harrison Loring House
Location789 E. Broadway, Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°20′7.5″N 71°1′59″W
Area0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built1865
Architectural styleSecond Empire
NRHP reference No.83000604[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 01, 1983

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983[1] and designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1984

See also
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "#53 Harrison Loring Estate Study Report_tcm3-41249.pdf" (PDF).


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