Building at 138–142 Portland Street


138–142 Portland Street is a historic commercial building located at the address of the same name in Boston, Massachusetts.

Description and history

The five-story, Beaux Arts style building was designed by Stephen Codman and built in 1896. The first floor has modern storefronts; the next three levels have brick pilasters separating the window bays with cast stone architraves. A cornice line separates the fifth level from the lower ones, and has oxeye windows at the building's rounded corners, and a dentillated cornice. It has also been classified as a Classical Revival building.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 5, 1985, and included in the Bulfinch Triangle Historic District on February 27, 1986.