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April 13, 1982. Designated CP. March 2, 1990. The City Hall Historic District is a historic district (United States) encompassing buildings important in the early growth of the Central Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The focal point of the district is the monumental Richardsonian Romanesque Cambridge City Hall building on the north ...
1632 - First Parish meeting house built. 1636 - The "New College" founded. 1636 - Newe Towne was established as a town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony on September 8. 1638. Newe Towne renamed "Cambridge." [1] John Harvard, a Puritan minister, bequeaths his library and half his monetary estate to the college. 1639.
Property is mostly in Cambridge; building extends into Somerville. 5. American Net and Twine Company Factory. American Net and Twine Company Factory. April 1, 1982. (#82001906) 155 2nd St. 42°22′01″N 71°04′47″W / 42.366883°N 71.079626°W / 42.366883; -71.079626 (American Net and Twine Company Factory) 6.
Boundary increase. May 19, 1986. The Berkeley Street Historic District is a historic district on Berkeley Street and Berkeley Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It encompasses a neighborhood containing one of the greatest concentrations of fine Italianate and Second Empire houses in the city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic ...
North Avenue Congregational Church (now known as John and Carol Moriarty Library, and previously as Old Cambridge Baptist Church and North Prospect Congregational Church and Prospect Hall) is a historic church meetinghouse at 1801 [2] (previously at 1803 [3]) Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was completely renovated in 2015 ...
The Old Cambridge Historic District is a historic district encompassing a residential neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts that dates to colonial times. It is located just west of Harvard Square, and includes all of the properties on Brattle Street west of Mason Street to Fresh Pond Parkway, all of the properties on Mason Street and Elmwood Avenue, and nearby properties on Craigie Street.
April 13, 1982. The Hubbard Park Historic District encompasses a residential development and park west of Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The area was originally the estate of Gardiner Hubbard, who had a 6-acre (2.4 ha) estate and house on nearby Brattle Street. In the 1880s Hubbard commissioned architects to build a ring of high ...
Cambridge is located in eastern Massachusetts, bordered by: the city of Boston to the south and east (across the Charles River) the city of Somerville to the north; the town of Arlington to the northwest; the town of Belmont and; the city of Watertown to the west; The border between Cambridge and the neighboring city of Somerville passes ...