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The Cigar Factory Building was built in 1891, designed as a five-story structure by Edgar Allen Poe Newcomb for the manufacturing of cigars by Alles & Fisher, a cigar company founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1863. They occupied the building until 1918 when they ceased cigar production. Their retail store operated on the street level of the building.
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The building was later occupied by several different business, including drug wholesale and manufacturing firms in the 1920's and 30's. Over the years the retail space on the ground floor was rented to tailors, cabinetmakers and others.
In 1939, the building was purchased by the Christian Assembly Church, who lowered the structure to three stories.
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They remained in the building until 2002, when it was purchased by GrayMac Properties who is currently working with A Point Design in an effort of adaptive reuse.
The current project involves renovating and adding back the original top two floors to the existing structure to create loft condominium residences with a roof garden and commercial space on the lower levels.
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During the construction process, timbers were carefully removed from the building and salvaged to provide stock for re-milled flooring from the antique beams. Some of this flooring, high-quality vertical grain Heart Pine, will be finding its way back into the foyer of the renovated building.
We thank GrayMac Properties for their assistance is providing historical research for this project.
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