Building at 259 Mount Auburn Street
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′29.75″N 71°07′55.30″W / 42.3749306°N 71.1320278°W / 42.3749306; -71.1320278
Built	1850
Architectural style	Italianate
MPS	Cambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.	83000786 [1]
Added to NRHP	June 30, 1983

259 Mount Auburn Street is a small historic house built in the Italianate style of architecture located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Details surrounding the construction of the house are unclear, because it was apparently moved to the site where it currently resides in the late 1850s. Its Italianate styling places its construction right around 1850, and its small size (22' by 18') suggests that it might have originally been built as a railroad depot, probably from the Watertown Branch Railroad. It is two stories in height, with a shallow-pitch hip roof that extends to an unusual length beyond the walls, and is supported by large decorative brackets.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1983.^[1]

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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