543 Green Street
Listed for $3,500,000
Sold for $3,800,000
Built for industry and reborn through design, 543 Green Street has always been a place where things were made.
Once, it filled the neighborhood with the scent of apple pie and chocolate. Later, architects took advantage of its soaring ceilings and steel columns to dream big. Eventually, a young couple transformed it into their home, studio, and sanctuary.
543 Green Street isn’t just one of a kind, it’s the kind of place you never forget. With 4,500 square feet, it offers extraordinary volume, natural light, and 13-foot ceilings inside a handsome brick structure, its street number painted boldly in green on the facade. It’s familiar yet mysterious. “Oh yeah, I know that building,” many will say. “I’ve always wondered what it was.”
It’s a true live/work masterpiece: he restored his Alfa Romeo Spider Duetto in one bay on the first level; she ran her design firm from another. Visitors often paused, enchanted by the sight of the vintage car at the heart of the space, perfectly at home. Upstairs, they lived in a luminous four-bedroom loft that embraced its industrial bones with warmth and elegance.
Set on a 6,400-square-foot lot with a long driveway and a generous rear area for parking—or the garden of your dreams—it offers room to grow both ideas and tomatoes.
The result is a home unlike any other—a building where history, architecture, and artistry converge.
Property Details
Interior
Size: 4,526 square feet
Rooms: 8
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 1 full & 2 half
Exterior
Lot Size: 6,400 square feet
Material: Brick
Roof: Rubber (age unknown)
Parking: Large paved driveway
Systems
Heat: Forced air by gas, 2 zones (2012)
Cooling: Central air by gas, 1 zone (2012)
Hot Water: Tank by electric (2025)
Electrical: Circuit breakers - The Building has 2 separately metered electrical services. One is 240V, 200 amp service, and the second is a 600V three-phase service.
Laundry: Laundry room on the first level
Windows: Mix of double paned and single paned windows
Waterproofing: French drain & sump pump
Other
Year Built: 1920
Taxes: $13,581 with the residential exemption ($16,846 without residential exemption)
Disclosures
Seller will entertain offers with a request for buyer agent compensation
The Premises are being sold as-is. Buyers are advised to conduct due diligence regarding condition, zoning, and permitted use.
Leaks in the roof resulting in visible water stains have been patched and sealed.
The Premises are offered subject to the grant and/or reservation of a perpetual easement for non-exclusive driveway access and exclusive use of one (1) parking space at the Premises, as generally depicted on the sketch attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, appurtenant to the Seller's property located at 541 Green Street, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts to be upon mutually agreeable written terms and in recordable form.
