Upham's Corner Market Explained

Upham's Corner Market
Location:Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates:42.3174°N -71.0648°W
Built:1919
Architect:Bacon, Willard M.
Architecture:Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, Other
Added:October 11, 1990
Refnum:90001537

The Upham's Corner Market is an historic commercial building at 600 Columbia Road in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is actually three separate buildings built c. 1919, 1923, and 1926. They were built by brothers John and Paul Cifrino, who were Italian immigrants. They established a small neighborhood grocery store in 1915, before building this series of buildings to house what became an early supermarket. After the third section was built, the store had of space, and was the largest store of its kind in the city, serving a nearby population of more than 250,000. The buildings have been converted to mixed commercial and residential use.[1]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: MACRIS inventory record for Upham's Corner Market. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2014-06-11.