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The platforms at Central were extended to the northwest (contrary to original plans for the southeast) beginning on April 25, 1985, with new entrances placed west of Prospect Street. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] (Extension to the northwest had been previously proposed in 1927 to add the additional entrances.) [ 13 ] The $11.2 million project was completed on ...
At Cambridge's western edge, the cemetery is known as a garden cemetery because of its landscaping (the oldest planned landscape in the country) and arboretum. Although known as a Cambridge landmark, much of the cemetery lies within Watertown. [121] It is also an Important Bird Area (IBA) in the Greater Boston area.
Within the parish bounds and started under Fr. Carroll, the St. John's Literary Institute was founded in 1852 to provide fellowship, entertainment, and education for East Cambridge's Catholic Community. On January 13, 1942 the building that had been the institute hall and become the Parish Center burned down.
St. Paul Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church located at 29 Mount Auburn Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Archdiocese of Boston.As well as serving as the local parish church, it is the home of St. Paul's Choir School whose students serve as the choristers in the Choir of St. Paul's, and the Harvard Catholic Center serving the academic community of ...
The theatre was started by the Cambridge Social Union, cofounded in January 1871 by the Reverend Samuel Longfellow, brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.In 1889, the union purchased the lot on Brattle Street for $9,000, and hired the Cambridge architectural firm headed by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. to draft plans for Brattle Hall.
St. James's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church at 1991 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The parish was founded in 1864 as a mission from Christ Church . The Richardsonian Romanesque building was built in 1888–89 to a design by Henry M. Congdon .
Across the street from the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site is the municipal park known as Longfellow Park. [46] The park was left undeveloped as a way to preserve an unobstructed view of the Charles River from the house. [51] In the middle sits a memorial by sculptor Daniel Chester French dedicated in 1914.
It is the second oldest pub in Cambridge, after the Pickerell Inn. [3] The street frontage, located on the north side of Bene't Street in the centre of the city, [4] is of circa 1600, with a galleried 19th-century wing behind, facing the courtyard. [1] The site is owned by Corpus Christi College and is managed by Greene King brewery.