Cambridge ยท Kendall Square
The Kendall Hotel
Kendall Square's Queen Anne firehouse, Engine House No. 7, restored with its cupola and joined to a new tower as a 77-room hotel in 2002.
- Built
- 1894Built 1894 as Engine House No. 7 (HHA); MACRIS CAM.1384 gives 1895. Hotel opened 2002 with a seven-story addition behind the firehouse.
- Style
- Queen Anne
- Architect
- R. J. Fitzgerald and S. D. Mitchell (Mitchell & Fitzgerald)
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Rooms
- 77
- Area
- Kendall Square
- Credentials
- Historic Hotels of America member
The story
Cambridge built Engine House No. 7 in 1894 for Kendall Square’s new Engine 7, to designs by Boston architects R. J. Fitzgerald and S. D. Mitchell; HHA calls it one of the region’s first single-purpose fire stations. Engine 7 moved out in 1993. Artist Charlotte Forsythe and her husband Gerald Fandetti bought the building from the city in 1999, restored the firehouse and its cupola and added a seven-story tower behind it, and The Kendall Hotel opened in 2002.
Good to know
- Breakfast: available
- Parking: on-site paid
- No pets
- Address: 350 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.