The Fabens Building is a historic commercial building at 312-344 Union Street in

Lynn, Massachusetts Lynn is the eighth-largest List of municipalities in Massachusetts, municipality in Massachusetts, United States, and the largest city in Essex County, Massachusetts, Essex County. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Boston city line ...

. The four story brick building was built in 1890, replacing two buildings that were destroyed in Lynn's disastrous 1889 fire. It was built for William Fabens, a Marblehead lawyer and judge who maintained offices in the city and sat on the city police court. The building had seven storefronts on the ground floor, with office space on the upper floors. Designed by local architect

Henry Warren Rogers Henry Warren Rogers (1831-1915) was an American architect practicing during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Lynn, Massachusetts. Early life and career Henry W. Rogers was born November 20, 1831, in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Wa ...

, it is one Lynn's most significant

Romanesque Revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended t ...

buildings. The building was listed on the

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in 1982, and is one of three registered buildings in Lynn designed by

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Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts 1890s architecture in the United States Buildings and structures in Lynn, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Lynn, Massachusetts Romanesque Revival architecture in Massachusetts {{EssexCountyMA-NRHP-stub

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