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The Somerville Theater is part of the Hobbs Building which was built in 1914 by Joseph Hobbs and designed by the firm of Funk & Wilcox of Boston.Designed for stage shows, vaudeville, opera, and motion pictures, the theater was only one of the highlights of the Hobbs Building, which also contained a basement café, basement bowling alley and billiards hall, the theater lobbies and ten ...
Davis Square was officially designated as a square by the City of Somerville in 1883. It was named for Person Davis (1819-1894), [3] a grain dealer who moved to the area in 1850 and built his estate near the intersection of Elm, Grove and Morrison Streets. [4] Davis was both a Somerville selectman and alderman. [5]
1884 map of Somerville demarcating each of the wards within the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, Somerville has a total area of 4.2 square miles (11 km 2), of which 4.1 square miles (11 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2), or 2.61%, is water. [60]
Alewife Brook Parkway is a short parkway in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts.It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.It begins at Fresh Pond in Cambridge (linking to Fresh Pond Parkway via Concord Avenue), and heads north on the east bank of Alewife Brook, crossing into West Somerville and ending at the Mystic River on the Medford town line, where it becomes Mystic ...
The Theater Coop, one of the Boston area's few new repertory live theaters, is located between Foss Park and the local supermarket. Near Winter Hill in East Somerville is a community pottery studio, called Mudflat, and a collective of stained glass artists called Daniel Maher Stained Glass. Foss Park abuts Interstate 93 at the base of Winter Hill.
[10]: 216 The station was renamed to West Somerville in the mid-1880s. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The B&L was acquired by the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) in 1887. [ 10 ] : 280 The streetcar and railroad service stimulated substantial development in the 1870s and 1880s as Davis Square quickly grew into an active commercial center.
Somerville is a borough in and the county seat of Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [19] [20] The borough is located in the heart of the Raritan Valley region within the New York Metropolitan Area, located about 33 miles (53 km) from Manhattan and 20 miles (32 km) from Staten Island.
Assembly station (originally Assembly Square in some planning documents) is a rapid transit station in Somerville, Massachusetts.It serves the MBTA's Orange Line. [3] It is an infill station, located on a section of the Orange Line that has been active since 1975.