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Spring Hill - Somerville Neighborhoods - Somerville Real Estate and More
The Somerville neighborhood of Spring Hillis popular with Somerville real estate buyers who appreciate the varied architecture and the proximity to Porter Square and Cambridge.  Spring Hill provides beautiful views of Cambridge and Boston.
Once the site of orchards and farms, Spring Hill, like much of Somerville in the early to mid-1800s, was a country retreat of sorts for Bostonians who were able to purchase less expensive house lots than were available in the city. Development was spurred by the by the extension of nearby rail, horse-car, and electric streetcar lines. 
Most development took place in the neighborhood between the 1840s and early 1900s.  Spring Hill has a fine selection of Greek Revival houses and Victorians including Italianates, Gothic Revivals, Queen Annes, and Second Empire Mansards.  Large houses were built in the neighborhood as well as smaller workers' houses and attached houses.  In the early 1900s triple-deckers filled in the remaining land.
Today Spring Hill condos can be found in converted multi-families and triple-deckers and at the Carr School which was converted to condominiums after it closed in 1980.  There are also apartment buildings from the 1960s and 1970s that have been converted to condominiums.
Opposite the Carr School is the Enoch Robinson Round House a local landmark ... more

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