Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 main building is the former Cambridge Almshouse, built in 1850 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It also underwent several name changes, including Ecole Bilingue de Boston (French name), and French-American International School of Boston (English name). Since January 2006, the English name has been the International ...
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]
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.
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 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 ...
The Sacred Heart Church, Rectory, School and Convent make up a historic Roman Catholic church complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The church was built in the 1870s and 1880s to serve the parish first organized as the St. John the Evangelist Parish in 1842. The cornerstone of the church was laid on 4 October 1874.
The Amigos School or La Escuela Amigos School, is a dual-language immersion bilingual Kindergarten to eighth (k-8) school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The Spanish-immersion program began in 1986 at the Maynard School and became an autonomous school within the Cambridge Public School District in 2001.