Lynn Item Building

Lynn Item Building
Lynn Item Building is located in Massachusetts
Lynn Item Building
Lynn Item Building is located in the United States
Lynn Item Building
Location38-54 Exchange Street, Lynn, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°27′43″N 70°56′41″W / 42.46194°N 70.94472°W / 42.46194; -70.94472
Area0.36 acres (0.15 ha)
Built1900 (1900)
ArchitectHenry Warren Rogers
Architectural styleItalian Renaissance
NRHP reference No.100009282[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 18, 2023

The Lynn Item Building is a historic commercial building at 38-54 Exchange Street in downtown Lynn, Massachusetts. It was built in 1900-1901 to a design by local architect Henry Warren Rogers.[2] It was home to The Daily Item, the city's leading newspaper, until 2014, and is the city's only surviving 19th-century purpose-built newspaper building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.[1] It was converted to mixed commercial and residential use in 2021.[3]

Description and history

The Lynn Item Building is located on the east side of downtown Lynn, at the northeast corner of Exchange and Mount Vernon Streets. It is a five-story masonry structure, its exterior finished in limestone with Italian Renaissance styling. A two-story addition, built in 1971, extends along Exchange Street; it is a Modernist structure built of concrete faced in buff brick. The addition now houses the building's main entrance, following the conversion of its upper floors to residential use.[3]

The Daily Item was founded in Lynn in 1876 by Horace Hastings, and remained in that family's ownership until 2014, when it was sold to local media group. It occupied a variety of buildings in downtown Lynn (of which none survive), and built its first dedicated facility in 1891 following a major fire in the city. Due to its growth, the present building was constructed just ten years later to a design by local architect Henry Warren Rogers, and is one of the city's few commercial buildings with a limestone exterior. The addition was constructed in 1971 to a design by Abraham Woolf.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "WEEKLY LIST OF ACTIONS TAKEN ON PROPERTIES: 8/14/2023 THROUGH 8/18/2023". National Park Service. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
  2. ^ The Register of the Lynn Historical Society for the Year 1915. Lynn Historical Society. 1916. p. 31.
  3. ^ a b c "NRHP nomination for Lynn Item Building". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
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