Brattle Hall

{{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Brattle Hall | nrhp_type = | image = File:Brattle Hall, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.jpg | caption = (2017) | image_size = 325px | location = 40 Brattle Street,<br/>Cambridge, Massachusetts | coordinates = {{coord|42|22|24.7|N|71|7|17.5|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Massachusetts | built = 1889, 1907 | architect = Longfellow, Alden & Harlow<br/>Charles Cogswell | architecture = Colonial Revival | added = April 13, 1982 | mpsub = Cambridge MRA | refnum = 82001925 <ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref> | nrhp_type2 = cp | nocat = yes | designated_nrhp_type2 = July 28, 1988 | partof = Harvard Square Historic District | partof_refnum = 86003654 }}

'''Brattle Hall''' is a historic building along Brattle Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was constructed in 1889 for the Cambridge Social Union – established in 1871 – when that organization moved into the adjacent William Brattle House that year. Brattle Hall was built to house the organization's library, and to provide a space for larger meetings and social functions. Brattle Hall was designed by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, originally in the Dutch Colonial Revival style, but it acquired more of a Colonial Revival feel with the 1907 addition of brick ends, designed by Charles Cogswell.<ref name=MACRIS>{{cite web|url=https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=cam.15|title=MACRIS inventory record for Brattle Hall|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|access-date=2014-03-07}}</ref>

The building continues to serve as a social center today. It houses the Brattle Theatre, a repertory movie house operated by a local non-profit since 1953, a restaurant in its basement, and a coffee shop on its first level.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982,<ref name="nris"/> and included in an expansion of the Harvard Square Historic District in 1988.<ref name=MACRIS/>

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Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1889 Category:Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Category:Buildings and structures in Cambridge, Massachusetts Category:Harvard Square Category:National Register of Historic Places in Cambridge, Massachusetts Category:Historic district contributing properties in Cambridge, Massachusetts Category:Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Massachusetts