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Building at 1707–1709 Cambridge Street: Building at 1707–1709 Cambridge Street: June 30, 1983 : 1707–1709 Cambridge St. 31: Building at 1715–1717 Cambridge Street: Building at 1715–1717 Cambridge Street: June 30, 1983 : 1715–1717 Cambridge St.
Its ground floor has been converted to a retail storefront. It was built in 1869 to house the horse-drawn streetcars of the Union Railway Company, founded in 1855. It is the only surviving car barn of three built by the company in Cambridge, and a rare surviving element of the city's 19th-century transportation infrastructure. [2]
151 N First Street, Cambridge Crossing: Height to tip - 270 ft (82 m) [35] [36] 17 Cambridge Crossing Parcel E/F 250 ft (76 m) 21 2020 250 Water Street, Cambridge Crossing: Life science and technology building 18 Tang Residence Hall 248 ft (76 m) 24 1972 The Stubbins Associates 550 Memorial Drive; Area 2/MIT [37] [38] 19 1010 Memorial Drive
Cambridge Market Hotel (later Porter's Hotel) built. [24] 1832 - Cambridge Fire Department and Cambridge Book Club [16] established. 1833 Hunt & Co's Circulating Library in business. [25] First Parish meeting house built, corner Church St. and Mass. Ave. 1835 - West Cambridge Social Library active. [25]
Cambridge has an irregular street network because many of the roads date from the colonial era. Contrary to popular belief, the road system did not evolve from longstanding cow-paths. Roads connected various village settlements with each other and nearby towns and were shaped by geographic features, most notably streams, hills, and swampy areas ...
17-19 and 21 7th Street 41°37′59″N 70°55′44″W / 41.633056°N 70.928889°W / 41.633056; -70.928889 ( Nathan and Mary Johnson Properties National Historic Landmark; home and meetinghouse of African-American abolitionist couple who took in Frederick Douglass after he escaped from slavery
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.
Maple Avenue is located in central Cambridge, within a triangular area demarcated by Harvard Square, Central Square, and Inman Square. It runs between Cambridge Street, which connects Harvard and Inman Squares, and Broadway, which connects Harvard and Kendall Squares. This area was first developed residentially in the mid-19th century.