275 Medford
275 Medford warehouse facade at golden hour

The Building

Where Boston's industrial heritage lives on.

Detail of weathered brick wall

Architectural Philosophy

Honor the bones. Modernize the rest.

The 2017 restoration treated every original surface — the load-bearing brick, the riveted steel beams, the maple floors stained by a century of work — as protected material. Where modern systems were needed, they were inserted as legible new layers, never disguised as old.

The result is a building that reads honestly: turn-of-the-century structure beside present-day comfort.

2017 Award

Boston Preservation
Achievement Award.

"A model for what adaptive reuse can mean to a neighborhood — preserving the character that drew people here, while making room for the next generation."

— City of Boston

National Recognition

National Registry of Historic Places.

Officially Designated

United States Department of the Interior

Location

Within reach of everywhere.

Aerial view of Charlestown and Boston skyline

Navy Yard

5 min drive · 18 min walk

1.2 mi

North End

8 min drive · 15 min Orange Line

1.8 mi

Assembly Row

9 min drive · 20 min bike

2.1 mi

Wynn Casino

12 min drive

3.4 mi

Transportation Hub

Six ways to leave the loft.

Orange Line

Community College T · 0.7 mi

Bike Share

Bluebikes station at door

Zip Car

Reserved spaces on-site

EV Charging

12 charging stations

Kayak Launch

Direct Mystic access

I-93 / Route 1

1 mi to either

Mystic River waterfront with skyline

Mystic River Waterfront

A watershed worth watching over.

275 Medford sits where the Mystic widens into the harbor — a stretch of waterfront once industrial, now restored to public access through coordinated stewardship.

Specifications

Built to last another century.

Year Built
1898
Restored
2017
Total SF
184,000
Units
112
Ceilings
12–14 ft
Brick
Hand-fired red
Windows
Steel-frame factory
Common SF
22,000