The Downer Rowhouses are two sets of Second Empire row houses that are back to back at 55 Adams Street and 192-200 Central Street, Somerville, Massachusetts

Somerville, Massachusetts

Somerville is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located just north of Boston. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 75,754 and was the most densely populated municipality in New England. It is also the 17th most densely populated incorporated place in...

. They have patterned slate roofs, carved stone lintels, and bracketed door hoods. They both are five unit buildings, tall and narrow, with full-height polygonal bays and a projecting cornice.

They were separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 on September 18, 1989 as Downer Rowhouses (Central Street) and Downer Rowhouses (Adams Street), references numbers 89001241 and 89001225.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerville, Massachusetts