Brattle Hall | |
 (2017) | |
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| Location | 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°22′24.7″N 71°7′17.5″W / 42.373528°N 71.121528°W |
| Built | 1889, 1907 |
| Architect | Longfellow, Alden & Harlow Charles Cogswell |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| Part of | Harvard Square Historic District (ID86003654) |
| MPS | Cambridge MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 82001925 [1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | April 13, 1982 |
| Designated CP | July 28, 1988 |
Brattle Hall is a historic building along Brattle Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was constructed in 1889 for the Cambridge Social Union – established in 1871 – when that organization moved into the adjacent William Brattle House that year. Brattle Hall was built to house the organization's library, and to provide a space for larger meetings and social functions. Brattle Hall was designed by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, originally in the Dutch Colonial Revival style, but it acquired more of a Colonial Revival feel with the 1907 addition of brick ends, designed by Charles Cogswell.[2]
The building continues to serve as a social center today. It houses the Brattle Theatre, a repertory movie house operated by a local non-profit since 1953, a restaurant in its basement, and a coffee shop on its first level.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982,[1] and included in an expansion of the Harvard Square Historic District in 1988.[2]
