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The
Kendall Hotel at the Engine 7 firehouse is the first
and only Historic Hotel in Cambridge, MA. We are proud
to belong to Historic Hotels of America, a program of
the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The Kendall Square area has seen a great deal of change
in the last two centuries. In the early 1790s, the site
of Engine 7 was a salt marsh. By 1830, it was converted
to a wharf serving local businesses. In 1870, the City
of Cambridge purchased the wharf and used it for deliveries
of fuel and paving materials. The turn of the century
saw a boom in manufacturing throughout the Northeast,
transforming the character of Cambridge, particularly
Kendall Square.
In 1894-95, the Engine 7 firehouse was erected to serve
this rapidly industrializing area. The Queen Anne-style
building was designed by Boston architects R.J. Fitzgerald
and S.D. Mitchell. Whereas earlier firehouses were typically
housed in the same buildings as police stations and other
municipal offices, the late 19th-century firehouses were
innovative, single-purpose buildings. They were designed
to accommodate stables with a permanent team of horses,
coal bunkers to fuel the new steam pumpers, maintenance
facilities, and dormitories for the firemen, complete
with brass poles for quick response.
350
Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone 1-866-566-1300 or 617-577-1300
Web: KendallHotel.com
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