Cheney Read House

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]

Cheney Read House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°21′54.5″N 71°06′30.7″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]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts