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Roughly Massachusetts Ave. from Clinton St. to Main St. Boundary increase (listed July 11, 2012 , refnum 12000404): Roughly 831 to 351–355 Massachusetts Ave. 42°21′54″N 71°06′13″W / 42.365°N 71.103611°W / 42.365; -71.103611 ( Central Square Historic
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
Historic photo shows three 9-story buildings surrounding low-rise 549 Technology Square (at center), with Draper Lab visible (at right edge of picture). Tech Square was jointly developed by Cabot, Cabot & Forbes (CCF) and MIT on a 14-acre (5.7 ha) site which had previously housed a tenement (demolished in 1957) and a Lever Brothers soap factory (closed in 1959).
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 ...
The monument is similar to one French designed for the street that leads to Sunnyside, the former home of Washington Irving. [52] In 1994, locals established the Friends of the Longfellow House, a nonprofit organization which raises funds to supplement federal support for the site and to assist with ongoing preservation projects. [53]
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.
The high-rise Middlesex Jail was constructed in 1971 on top of the former Cambridge Superior Courthouse. [9] The 1978 East Cambridge Riverfront Plan [2] resulted in the redirection of traffic to Commercial Street, improving a narrower strip of parkland along Cambridge Parkway for recreational use. A widened Binney Street, the riverside ...
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.