<p>Abó, is a pueblo ruin in New Mexico that is preserved as part of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. The ruins are located about 9 mi west of Mountainair, at about 6,100 ft above sea level. They are said to date back to the 14th century. It was a major trading station during its time. There is a visitor contact station, a 0.25 mi trail through the mission ruins, and a 0.5 mi trail around the unexcavated pueblo ruins. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1962.</p><br>
<p>Abo is also the geological type locality for the Abo Formation, which is made up of sandstone red beds and is exposed to the northwest of the Abo ruins.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Abó was the site of a Native American Pueblo. The community, composed of Tompiro-speaking Tanoans, was recorded to have a population of more than 1,600 in 1641. The Tompiro language was likely related to Piro, as well as to Tiwa, which is still spoken at present-day Pueblos of Isleta and Sandia west of Abó.</p><br>
<p>As village-dwelling and sedentary Pueblo Indians, the Abó Tompiros&#39; livelihood depended on agriculture. The region where they lived is more than 6,000 ft in elevation, near the upper climatic limit for corn cultivation. They had little surface water for irrigation, rainfall was sparse and sporadic, and winters were cold. Tompiro settlements were made viable by their proximity to salt deposits in the Salinas and to the bison herds of the Great Plains. The Tompiros were important traders and middlemen between the Plains Indians and the Pueblos of the Rio Grande Valley for salt and bison skins and meat. They s also hunted small and large game in the region, especially deer, pronghorn, and rabbits and gathered wild foods, including pinyon (piñón) pine nuts.</p><br>
<p>Abó appears to first enter the documentary historic record in 1583, when a visit to a site believed to be Abó was recorded by the Spanish explorer Antonio de Espejo. Spanish missionary work began there in 1622, and construction of the first church began in 1629. The Pueblo was abandoned around 1672, apparently due to drought and attacks by the Apaches. The Spanish recorded that Abó residents then moved to the Rio Grande valley, where they later sided with the Spanish in the 1680 Pueblo Rebellion.</p><br>
<p>The Abó site was acquired by the state in 1938, which preserved it as a state historic site. In 1981, management of the site was taken over by the National Park Service as part of the newly enlarged and renamed Gran Quivira National Monument, now the Salinas Pueblos National Monument.</p><br>
<p>Brattle Hall is a historic building along Brattle Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was constructed in 1889 for the Cambridge Social Union &ndash; established in 1871 &ndash; when that organization moved into the adjacent William Brattle House that year. Brattle Hall was built to house the organization&#39;s library, and to provide a space for larger meetings and social functions. Brattle Hall was designed by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, originally in the Dutch Colonial Revival style, but it acquired more of a Colonial Revival feel with the 1907 addition of brick ends, designed by Charles Cogswell.</p><br>
<p>The building continues to serve as a social center today. It houses the Brattle Theatre, a repertory movie house operated by a local non-profit since 1953, a restaurant in its basement, and a coffee shop on its first level.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and included in an expansion of the Harvard Square Historic District in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Cambridge Public Library  in Cambridge, Massachusetts consists of a unified city-wide system maintaining: a main branch, of notable aesthetic architectural value, plus a further six localized branches sited throughout the city. Having evolved from the Cambridge Athenaeum, the main library branch was built at its present site in 1888. The main library most recently underwent renovation, and a modern building addition significantly expanded the overall branch in 2009. Thus, it greatly increased the branch&#39;s area, more than tripling its square footage.</p><br>
<p>At current the library system holds more than 314,607 items where in addition to traditional library services, the Cambridge Public Library provides services such as e-books, audiobooks, tax preparation, large print, films, music, graphic novels, online resources, newspapers, magazines and educational programs among others. The library provides city-wide delivery services to homebound residents of Cambridge.</p><br>
<h2>History of organization</h2><br>
<p>The Cambridge Public Library developed out of the Cambridge Athenaeum, which was founded in 1849 as "a lyceum, public library, and reading room with a building on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Pleasant Street where Cambridge residents could borrow books at the cost of one dollar per year.</p><br>
<p>The City of Cambridge acquired the Cambridge Athenaeum in 1858 and renamed it the Dana Library for use as both a city hall and a public library. By 1866, the Library moved to the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Temple Street. In 1874, the library became free to the public and was renamed the Cambridge Public. Through the philanthropic endeavors of Frederick H. Rindge (and the Rindge Family), the main branch of the Cambridge Public Library was subsequently moved to the Mid-Cambridge neighborhood where it was built in 1888 at 449 Broadway.</p><br>
<p>In 2020 the CPL sought to partially fund the establishment of the Community based - Cambridge Public Library STEAM Academy.</p><br>
<h2>City Branches</h2><br>
<h3>Main Library</h3><br>
<p>The main library of the Cambridge Public Library consists of two buildings at 449 Broadway. The Van Brunt & Howe portion is a historic library building. It was built in 1888 with land and full construction funding donated by Frederick H. Rindge, a Cambridge native and philanthropist. Its Richardsonian Romanesque design was by Van Brunt & Howe. In the late 1960s, a more contemporary addition of plain brick exterior was created at the rear of the main library. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The newly expanded building consists of a $90 million expansion and renovation of the earlier library, led by the Boston architectural firms William Rawn Associates and Ann Beha Architects. The expanded library opened on November 8, 2009. The new addition more than tripled the square footage of the building and is the first building in the US to make use of European Double-Skin Curtainwall technology. Architectural drawings and construction photos are available. During most of the construction, the library collection had been relocated to the former Longfellow School building.</p><br>
<p>In 2010 the main library received a LEED Silver certification from the USA Green Building Council.</p><br>
<p>The surrounding park and lawn grounds of the Joan Lorentz Park found at the main building is a popular meeting place for various interest groups, including pickup soccer, slacklining, book and religious study groups, casual picnics, and the traditional practice of various martial and therapeutic arts. The main library and surrounding park sit at a top of a 70-car underground parking garage.</p><br>
<h4>Building features and art works</h4><br>
<h4>=Museum of Science Community Solar System=</h4><br>
<p>Prior to the renovation of the main library, the library was home to a scale model of the planet Saturn in the Boston Museum of Science&#39;s community-wide Solar System model. Saturn was located just outside the portion of the building that housed the old stacks, roughly where the computer workstation sign-in table is currently located. The Saturn model was packed up and shipped back to the Museum of Science and was not positioned at the reopened renovated library. Other locations in Cambridge that still have models in the historic nine planet series are the Royal Sonesta Hotel (home of Earth) and the CambridgeSide mall (home of Mars).</p><br>
<p>There are a further six smaller neighborhood branch libraries around the City of Cambridge:</p><br>
<h2>Governance & funding</h2><br>
<p>The library system is governed by a board of trustees consisting of six volunteer trustees acting as community representative members appointed by the Cambridge City Manager. Meetings of the board are open to the public. The day-to-day oversight is by the Director of Libraries, who is supported further by managers at the separate neighborhood branches.</p><br>
<p>The system is funded primarily through property taxes as a department of the City of Cambridge, and receives additional support from the Cambridge Public Library Foundation and Friends of the Cambridge Public Library.</p><br>
<p>In fiscal year 2014, the city of Cambridge spent 1.63% ($7,064,381) of its city budget towards the library, amounting $66 per person.</p><br>
<h2>Collection(s)</h2><br>
<p>As of 2023 card holders are offered extensive online resources.</p><br>
<h2>Awards and recognition</h2><br>
<h2>Memberships</h2><br>
<p>Academic and research library memberships for Cambridge Public Library include:</p><br>
<p>Minuteman Library Network</p><br>
<p>The Cambridge Home for the Aged and Infirm is an historic building on 650 Concord Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1928 by the city, it is one of the oldest surviving municipal facilities for the housing of elderly and incurably ill patients, rather than indigents. It is now operated as Neville Place, an assisted living community managed by Senior Living Residences. The building was built in 1928 by Charles Reggio Greco and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cambridge Home for the Aged and Infirm is set on the south side of Concord Avenue, between it and the north shore of Fresh Pond in the western part of the city. The main building is a -story Georgian Revival brick structure, roughly in the shape of a W. It has a central main block, which is flanked on either side by wings that are essentially Y-shaped with a truncated stem. The frame of the structure is reinforced concrete, which is faced in brick. The main entrance is framed by a cast stone pedimented pavilion, with a keystone arch flanked by Doric columns.</p><br>
<p>The home was built in 1928 as a partial replacement for service that had previously been offered at the citys almshouse, and represents the first known instance of such a purpose-built facility in the state. The older facility had primarily been built to house able-bodied yet indigent people, and had been judged functionally obsolete as much as 15 years before this facility was built. The almshouse, known as Cambridge City Home, had been operating on this site since 1851, and suffered a fire in 1914 which damaged the building and killed three people. This facility was designed by Charles Reggio Greco, a local architect who had produced designs for other municipal facilities. It remained the citys primary support for its aged and infirm population until the advent of Medicare in the 1960s. It then underwent conversion to a nursing home, and was again adapted for use as an assisted living facility in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Neville Center at Fresh Pond</h2><br>
<p>640 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138</p><br>
<p>Located in the same building complex as the Cambridge Home for the Aged and Infirm (which is now called Neville Place), the Neville Center at Fresh Pond is located at 640 Concord Avenue. The Neville Center serves as a Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility, providing both short term rehabilitation and long-term care to its residents. The Neville Center is a non-profit organization which has been in operation since 2004. This facility was nationally recognized as one of the top rehabilitation facilities in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Neville Center primarily serves older patients, serving as both a nursing facility and a rehab facility for senior residents of Cambridge and the surrounding area. There are 112 beds in the Neville Center. The Neville Center accepts Medicare and Medicaid from its patients, and it also accepts private insurance. They are particularly proud of their Pulmonary Program, “Breathing Life, Restoring Hope”, a comprehensive and innovative approach to managing chronic lung conditions. The program is run by Dr. Robert Schiffman who is an instructor at Harvard Medical School. They use the new OmniFlow system in order to enhance the effectiveness of respiratory therapy and optimize patient comfort.</p><br>
<p>Another special program at The Neville Center is Ageless Grace. Ageless Grace is a brain fitness program which is currently being taught in all 50 states and more than 30 countries. There are 21 tools, or simple exercises, which are a part of this program. Ageless Grace works to improve the neuroplasticity of the people who practice it, by re-opening the neural pathways. These neural pathways are created from your birth until you are around the age of 21. The Ageless Grace program aims to re-open those pathways and create new ones, providing the resident of the Neville Center with the tools to work to keep their brains young.</p><br>
<p>The Neville Centers Recreation Therapy team provides therapeutic recreation activities that meet each residents social, cognitive, physical, and spiritual needs. Therapeutic Recreation activities encourage residents into trying new things, creating new friendships, decreasing social isolation, and participating in their community.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the Neville Center, there is also an assisted-living facility across the street. Residents of that facility can end up in the center after a stay at the hospital, or spouses or partners of people who live in the assisted-living facility can also be at the Neville Center. The Neville Center highlights its food as one of its amenities, making it clear that they consider the health and wellbeing of all of their patients during their stay at the facilities. Additionally, the Neville Center has spacious rooms, in order to make their patients comfortable, and the presence of a beauty salon inside of the facility which their patients are able to go to during their stay at the Neville Center.</p><br>
<p>Neville Center&#39;s sister facility Neville Place is located next door and offers assisted living as well as a Dementia Unit. The close proximity allows for patients to move from one level of care to the next with relative ease and convenience. Both facilities are part of the Neville Communities family, a non-profit group.</p><br>
<p>Prior to its inception as The Neville Center, this building was a part of Neville Manor, which was a part of the city nursing home built in 1927 and called the Cambridge Home for the Aged and Infirm. When the site was redeveloped in 1999 and 2000, the Neville Manor site at Fresh Pond was redeveloped into Neville Place, the assisted living facility, and the Neville Center, the nursing home.</p><br>
<p>Covid hit the Neville Center hard. As of May 31, 2020, more residents had died at the Neville Center than at any other long-term care facility in Cambridge.</p><br>
<p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, The Neville Center opened an isolation facility for those recovering from the coronavirus. It began operating on Friday, December 4, 2020, and was caring for six patients by December 8. The isolation area contained 14 beds, and was part of a state program to care for patients who are no longer sick enough to be hospitalized but are not recovered enough to return home. In exchange for caring for these patients, The Neville Center was eligible to receive extra Medicaid reimbursement due to caring for patients in its isolation unit. At the time that it opened, The Neville Center&#39;s isolation unit was one of five such isolation centers in operation in the state.</p><br>
<p>In August 2023, the director of the Neville Center applied for funding from the Affordable Housing Trust to conduct repairs. However, because the Neville Center is a medical facility, not an affordable housing complex, it was not eligible for funds from the Affordable Housing Trust. It remains unknown how the Neville Center will obtain the funds for renovations and repairs. However, Neville Place is able to receive money from the Affordable Housing Trust, as 57 of the 71 units at Neville Place must go to low or moderate income residents. In May 2023, the Affordable Housing Trust approved a loan of $2.5 million to the group Neville Communities Inc., which is the nonprofit which manages the Neville community. However, those funds can only go towards the costs of running Neville Place, and not the Neville Center. Although the Affordable Housing Trust denied funds to the Neville Center, Andrew Fuqua, the director of Neville Communities Inc. kept trying to secure funds for the center, saying that the money, “would have aided basic facility repairs and upgrades, reinforcing our dedication to providing the best for our residents. Neville Center’s 5-star rating and strong occupancy rate showcase our commitment to superior care.”</p><br>
<p>The Francis J. Child House is an historic house at 67 Kirkland Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a mansard roof, wooden clapboard siding, and a porch extending across the main facade. The house was built in 1861, and is a distinctive Second Empire cottage with jigsaw-cut molding over its gable windows. The lower  portion of the mansard roof has hexagonal tiles, and the building retains its original siding.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and included in the Shady Hill Historic District in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the New Jerusalem  is a historic Swedenborgian church at 50 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard University. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History of building</h2><br>
<p>The building was initially constructed in 1901 as a chapel to The New Church Theological School, which has moved to Berkeley, California and is doing business as the Swedenborgian House of Studies. It was designed by Herbert Langford Warren (1857–1917), founder of the Harvard School of Architecture (now the Harvard Graduate School of Design), a founding member of the Cambridge church, and son of a Swedenborgian missionary. It was built by the New Church Theological School on part of the Jared Sparks estate purchased in 1889 for the purpose of housing both a school and a Cambridge congregation of Swedenborgians. In 1965 a Parish House addition was constructed at the northeast corner of the chapel to designs by Cambridge architect Arthur H. Brooks, Jr. In 2002, the Swedenborg School of Religion sold the chapel to the Cambridge Society of the New Jerusalem, which was the incorporated congregation that had been with the chapel since its construction.</p><br>
<p>The building is a 1.5 story, gable-roofed, stone building in the English Gothic Revival style, constructed of rubblestone with Indiana limestone trim. The roof is green and purple slate. In plan, it is a rectangle, oriented east/west in the traditional manner of ecclesiastical architecture, entered through a one-story porch at the west end. On the west wall at either side of the porch are lancet windows with limestone hood moulds whose carved corbels represent the allegorical beasts of the four evangelists. The two lancets contain stained glass memorial windows representing "The Good Shepherd" and "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." The altar is located in a shallow, projecting one-story gabled chancel bay at the east end. Subsidiary projections include a shed roofed side entrance and chimney on the south elevation at the chancel crossing and a hip roofed projection on the north side that is now obscured by the 1965 Parish House addition. Limestone trim embellishes the exterior of the porch and the west wall.</p><br>
<h2>Congregation</h2><br>
<p>The congregation dates back to the 1880s, but did not formally exist until the construction of the building in 1901. Since that time, Swedenborg Chapel has been served by 9 pastors. The Rev. Sage Cole is the current pastor of the congregation.</p><br>
<p>Past Pastors</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Dr. Theodore Wright</p><br>
<p>The Rev. William Worcester</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Everett Bray</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Dr. George F. Dole</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Mr. Wilfred Gould Rice</p><br>
<p>The Rev. F. Robert Tafel</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Sarah Buteux</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Kevin K. Baxter</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Sage Cole</p><br>
<p>Like many Swedenborgian churches, the chapel serves as an interfaith wedding chapel.</p><br>
<p>The Conventual Church of St. Mary and St. John is a historic Episcopal church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Romanesque Revival church was built in 1936 to a design by architect Ralph Adams Cram. Cram sought to reproduce 12th century ecclesiastical forms found in the Burgundy region of France. The building was featured in a 1941 architectural magazine. It is home to monks of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist of the Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church is a historic American Baptist church at Magazine and River Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts within Central Square. In 1817 the church congregation was founded in the home of James Hovey. In 1844 several members of First Baptist Church left to found nearby Old Cambridge Baptist Church. First Baptist Church&#39;s current Gothic building was constructed in 1881 to a design by Hartwell and Richardson. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church is set just south of the main intersection at the heart of Central Square, on a roughly trapezoidal lot bounded by River Street, Green Street, Magazine Street, and Franklin Street. The church building is roughly L-shaped, with its front facing north toward the square. The long main section of the building houses the sanctuary, and the rear section, extending a short way to the west, houses a parish hall, offices and other facilities of the church.</p><br>
<p>The church is a tall single-story brick structure, with sandstone trim and decorative detailing in terra cotta, and has Gothic Revival styling. It has a gabled slate roof with a clerestory section near the top of the gable, with the rear section having a cross-gable roof. The slate is mainly gray-green, with bands of red. A tower rises at the northeast corner of the building, rising to an open belfry with lancet-arch windows at the third stage. Clock face sections with gabled tops interrupt the steeple, which is eight-sided, finished in slate.</p><br>
<p>The church is the third to be built by the Baptist congregation, which acquired the property in 1819. The first two churches, built in 1819 and 1866, were both destroyed by fire.</p><br>
<p>North Avenue Congregational Church  is a historic church meetinghouse at 1801  Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was completely renovated in 2015 to become a library for Lesley University. The former church now forms part of what is now the Lunder Arts Center complex.</p><br>
<h2>History of ownership</h2><br>
<p>The church was originally built in 1845 on Kirkland Street near Harvard Square, for the Old Cambridge Baptist Church congregation, to designs by local architect Isaac Melvin. It was sold to the North Avenue Congregational Society in 1866 at which time it was renamed the North Avenue Congregational Church. In 1867 it was moved up Massachusetts Avenue (called North Avenue at the time) to a site immediately north of its current location. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and sold to Lesley University in 2006 subsequent to the movement of the congregation to Medford, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h3>Lesley University</h3><br>
<p>The university used the former church primarily as an auditorium and lecture hall space following its purchase until preparations for the Lunder Arts Center began. Prior to renovation, the university sold or donated many of the church fixtures. A new home was found for the historic 18-foot organ, in a Texas church. The stained-glass windows, however, were restored and were returned to the building after renovations. In addition to the window restoration, the historic exterior details of the building were restored. A cupola, which is a reproduction of the former belfry c. 1900, was added, with the original weathervane atop.</p><br>
<p>The renovated building houses a library specializing in Art and Art History for Lesley&#39;s College of Art and Design (previously located in the Kenmore area of Boston).</p><br>
<p>On December 5, 2013, the university moved the building approximately 100 feet south on its lot to make way for the new building at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Roseland Street, between the church and the adjacent University Hall building. The new location changes the building&#39;s address from 1803 Massachusetts Avenue to 1801.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The buildings simple, rectangular plan was originally four bays deep with a tall, multi-stage spire surmounting a projecting entrance portico; it then resembled Charles Bulfinchs New South Church in Boston (1814) though in Greek Revival form with Egyptian columns. The addition of a chancel and transepts in 1872 created a cruciform plan. The original three-stage tower and spire, similar to that of the New South Church, was damaged in a storm, and in 1906 its upper two round stages and spire were replaced with a square belfry and a copper dome. Today&#39;s eight-faceted spire was built in 1964 after the dome was struck by lightning and caught fire, and now only the pedimented first stage of the original steeple remains.</p><br>
<p>The Old Cambridge Baptist Church is a historic American Baptist church at 400 Harvard Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1844 when several members of First Baptist Church in Cambridge decided to start a new church. The original meeting house was sold to the Congregationalists and became North Avenue Congregational Church. In 1869 the church constructed the current meeting house, a larger Gothic revival stone building, designed by architect Alexander Rice Esty. Old Cambridge Baptist Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Built of local fieldstone and granite quarried in Somerville, Massachusetts, the building is a notable example of the muscular use of stone, typical of American Gothic Revival architecture. This solidity, coupled with Esty&#39;s display of structural strength in the asymmetrical massing of forms, is further accentuated by the contrast between heavy gray stone and large, graceful, delicate stained glass windows, which the stone walls simultaneously reveal and protect.</p><br>
<p>In 1897, the original parish hall was lost in a fire. The rebuild was under the direction of noted Boston Theater Architect, Clarence Blackall. The most notable feature of the reconstruction is an 1890 Tiffany & Company Window. This early Tiffany window bridges the gothic stained glass tradition and emerging art nouveau movement.</p><br>
<p>The church is currently home to various organizations and ministries, such as the Homeless Empowerment Project which publishes the Spare Change News street newspaper, the José Mateo Ballet Theatre, the Adbar Ethiopian Women&#39;s Alliance, the Cambridge Child and Family Associates, and others.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people affiliated with church</h2><br>
<p>Ezra Palmer Gould, pastor (1868), Christian author</p><br>
<p>St. James&#39;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. The church was built on the site of the Davenport Tavern, a landmark that had stood on that site since c. 1757 .</p><br>
<p>The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>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. It was dedicated in 1883, and opened for Divine Service on 12 November 1876. The rectory was added in 1885, and the convent and school followed in 1902. The church is a Medieval Gothic structure designed by P. W. Ford. The complex occupies an entire city block, and has been partly taken over for Cambridge city school administration.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 13 April 1982; #387395.</p><br>
<h2>Brief history</h2><br>
<p>Under the pastorate of Msgr. John O&#39;Brien the cornerstone of Sacred Heart Church was laid on October 4, 1874 by Archbishop John Joseph Williams. Later Bishop of Portland, Maine, James Augustine Healy, then pastor of St. James in Boston delivered the sermon. The basement of the church opened for services on November 12, 1876.</p><br>
<p>Sacred Heart Church was dedicated on January 28, 1883 with Archbishop Williams presiding, assisted by Bishops Healy of Portland, McMahon of Hartford, and O&#39;Reilly of Springfield.</p><br>
<p>A "Description of the Altar by the Architect" states in part, "The altar of the Sacred Heart Church, for beauty of design and grandeur of effect, has few, if any rivals in the United States."</p><br>
<p>The Sacred Heart Rectory was built in 1895 under Msgr. O&#39;Brien.</p><br>
<p>The Parish School opened in 1902 and was staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph. The High School would close in June 1964 and the elementary school would close in June 1966.</p><br>
<p>The Parish Baptistry, between the rectory and church building, closing off the courtyard, was built in 1906.</p><br>
<p>The Church steeple was razed in June 1962 due to poor structural condition.</p><br>
<p>On June 29, 1963 the church structure suffered a fire. During the fire the roof and most of the original windows were destroyed.</p><br>
<h2>Saint John&#39;s Literary Institute</h2><br>
<p>Within the parish bounds and started under Fr. Carroll, the St. Johns Literary Institute was founded in 1852 to provide fellowship, entertainment, and education for East Cambridges Catholic Community. On January 13, 1942 the building that had been the institute hall and become the Parish Center burned down. A Cambridge Historical Commission marker was placed on a building now occupying the plot where the institute hall once stood.</p><br>
<h2>Sacred Heart Review</h2><br>
<p>Under the direction of Rev. John O&#39;Brien a parish periodical is assembled, the first issue being published on December 1, 1888. This small periodical would ultimately grow to received national subscribership and maintain a printing office in the parish neighborhood. The Sacred Heart Review ceased publication in 1918 after 1,547 issues, now catalogued by the Boston College Libraries.</p><br>
<h2>List of Pastors</h2><br>
<h3>(Old) St. John&#39;s (1842-1876)</h3><br>
<p>John Bernard Fitzpatrick (1842-4844) later third bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston</p><br>
<p>Rev. Manasses Dougherty (1844-1849) later pastor of St. Peter Church in Cambridge.</p><br>
<p>Rev. George T. Riordan (1849-1851)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Laurence Carroll (1841-1858)</p><br>
<p>Rev. George Haskins, administrator (1858)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Francis X. Brannigan (1859-1861)</p><br>
<p>Rev. John W. Donahoe (1861-1873)</p><br>
<p>Msgr. John A. O&#39;Brien (1873-1917)</p><br>
<h3>Sacred Heart and Old St. John&#39;s Parish (1876-1934)</h3><br>
<p>Msgr. John A. O&#39;Brien (1873-1917)</p><br>
<p>Msgr. Hugh F. Blunt, L.L.D. (1917-1929) later pastor of St. John Parish in North Cambridge.</p><br>
<p>Rev. Joseph P. Mahar (1929-1941)</p><br>
<h3>Sacred Heart Parish (1934–2022)</h3><br>
<p>Rev. Joseph P. Mahar (1929-1941)</p><br>
<p>Rev. James J. Walsh (1941-1950)</p><br>
<p>Msgr. Michael F. Costello (1950-1975)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Francis C. O&#39;Hare, administrator (1975)</p><br>
<p>Rev. George D. Vartzelis (1975-1984)</p><br>
<p>Rev. John D. O&#39;Donnell (1984-1993)</p><br>
<p>Rev. John P. Tackney (1993-2015)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Walter Carreiro, administrator (2015-2016)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Joseph L. Curran, administrator (2016-2022)</p><br>
<h3>East Cambridge Catholic Collaborative (since 2022)</h3><br>
<p>Rev. Michael Harrington (2022–Present)</p><br>
<p>The Robert Frost House is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It consists of four wood-frame townhouses, stories in height, arranged in mirror image styling. Each pair of units has a porch providing access to those units, supported by turned posts and with a low Stick style balustrade. The Queen Anne/Stick style frame house was built in 1884, and has gables decorated with a modest amount of Gothic-style bargeboard. The house was home to poet Robert Frost for the last two decades of his life.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It remains a private home.</p><br>
<p>The 1870 Mount Auburn Cemetery Reception House is an historic building that originally served as the reception house of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The building is located at 583 Mount Auburn Street, across the street from the cemetery, and is no longer part of the cemetery. A new reception house was built on the cemetery grounds in 1896.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>When Mount Auburn Cemetery was opened in 1831, it quickly developed as a popular outing destination for the local population. Its popularity was such that the first horse-drawn trolley route in New England was built with a terminus at the cemetery&#39;s entrance in 1853. Demand for function spaces related to funeral activities also increased, prompting the cemetery trustees to consider building a reception hall.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery&#39;s first reception house was built in 1870 to a design by Nathaniel J. Bradlee, and is one of only two surviving designs of his in Cambridge. The building was commissioned by the cemetery trustees as a place to hold receptions and other functions. It is a single story building 46 ft wide and 30 ft deep, with a full-width porch supported by four tapered columns, and a projecting center gable supported by two additional columns. The gable and the frieze board above the columns are decorated with incised floral patterns, while the tympanum of the gable end has a cartouche for a clock.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It now houses a funerary monuments company.</p><br>
<p>The Blake and Knowles Steam Pump Company National Register District encompasses the historical industrial complex of the Blake and Knowles Steam Pump Company and its successor, the Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is located in a one-block area surrounded by Third, Rogers, Binney, and Fifth Streets. The property was developed by the Blake and Knowles Steam Pump Company, one of the nation&#39;s leading manufacturer of industrial pumps from the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>George Blake was the owner of a brickyard in Medford who developed pumps for removing water from brickyard clay pits. Establishing a pump factory in Boston in 1864, he moved to this site in 1886. In 1879 he entered into a financial arrangement with Lucius Knowles, another pump manufacturer, and their two businesses were formally merged in 1897. By this time, the company was a nationally leading supplier of a diversity of industrial pumps. In 1916 it was merged with other pump makers to create the Worthington Pump Works. It provided pumps to the United States Army during World War I, nearly doubling the plant size so that it extended from Bent to Monroe Streets. This plant operated until 1927, when its manufacturing was relocated to Holyoke. Although the buildings were sold off for other industrial uses, the surviving ones have been remarkably little altered.</p><br>
<p>The surviving elements of the Blake and Knowles are located in East Cambridge, an area that became increasingly industrial as the 19th century progressed. They are located on a single block about 2.4 acre in size, bounded by Third, Fifth, Rogers, and Binney Streets. Buildings between Binney and Monroe associated with the company have been demolished, while a few surviving buildings between Rogers and Bent Streets survive in altered form. The complex consists of several machine shops, including its main (200 ft) shop, which extends along Rogers Street, and the plant office building, which is also known as the Kendall Boiler and Tank Company after a subsequent owner.</p><br>
<p>The Bottle House Block is a brick rowhouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was built in 1826 as a tavern by Deming Jarves, owner of the New England Glass Company, and was identified as the "Bottle House Block" from its earliest days. The building is the third oldest in East Cambridge and one of a few surviving brick buildings in Cambridge from that period. At the time of its construction it stood on the main road from the West Boston Bridge to Old Cambridge .</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The William Brattle House is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of the seven Colonial mansions described by historian Samuel Atkins Eliot as making up Tory Row, housing several prominent figures in early colonial history. It remains in use by the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1727 for Major General William Brattle, at that time the wealthiest man in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of William Brattle and nephew of Thomas Brattle. After the 1774 incident known as the Powder Alarm, an angry mob surrounded the Brattle mansion and forced the family to flee to Boston. At age 70, Brattle left Boston for Halifax, Nova Scotia on Evacuation Day, March 17, 1776, and died a few months later on October 26, 1776. He was buried in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia).</p><br>
<p>According to Edward Abbott, writing in 1859,</p><br>
<p>General Brattle conveyed all his real estate in Cambridge, December 13, 1774, to his only surviving son, Major Thomas Brattle... By the persevering efforts of Mrs. Katherine Wendell, the only surviving daughter of General Brattle, the estate was preserved from confiscation, and was recovered by Major Brattle after his return from Europe,—having been proscribed in 1778, and having subsequently exhibited satisfactory evidence of his friendship to his country and its political independence.</p><br>
<p>Nevertheless, the home was used temporarily as a headquarters by Thomas Mifflin and hosted a number of important figures from the early Revolutionary War period, including John Adams, who visited here before his trip to Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence.</p><br>
<p>For a time, the William Brattle House was home to American journalist Margaret Fuller. Fullers uncle Abraham owned the home at the time, and the Fuller family moved in shortly after Timothy Fullers unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts as an Anti-Mason. They arrived in September 1831 and left by April 1833. The young Fuller did not enjoy her time here and referred to the opulent home as her "gilded cage". While living here on Christmas Day 1834, she ran out of a church service and had the inspirational thought "that there was no self; that selfishness was folly" and that she must teach herself to "act in cooperation with the constraints of life".</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, It is currently owned and maintained by the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, a non-profit organization that was incorporated in 1938. CCAE also owns the historic Dexter Pratt House.</p><br>
<p>General William Brattle House, 42 Brattle Street, Cambridge (Middlesex County, Massachusetts).jpgBrattle House in 1937</p><br>
<p>The William F. Bradbury House is an historic house at 369 Harvard Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The three-story brick Second Empire house was built in 1877 by William F. Bradbury, head master of the Cambridge Latin School. The pressed brick construction was rare for Cambridge at the time, and the house is now one of the few single family houses of the period to remain on Harvard Street, which was once lined by single-family houses.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The E. H. Brabrook House is an historic duplex house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, six bays wide, with a side gable roof and a porch extending across its front facade. It was built in 1849 by Ezra Brabrook, a local furniture dealer. It is one of the first Italianate houses in Old Cambridge, retaining distinctive Greek Revival characteristics such as its corner pilasters and front door sidelight windows, while including an Italianate wide cornice and brackets.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Luther Brooks House is a historic house located at 34 Kirkland Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame house was built in 1840 by Oliver Hastings. It retained a traditional entry centered on the long side of the house, while it was oriented with its gable to the street in the Greek Revival style. A two-story ell at the rear of the house is probably original, and the house was further extended with a single story addition on its east side.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Building at 1707–1709 Cambridge Street is an historic multifamily house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1845, it is one of two identical surviving rental properties built by a local developer . The survival of their original building contracts provides an important window into the understanding of 19th century building practices. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>1707-09 Cambridge Street is located a short way east of Harvard Square, on the north side of Cambridge Street, opposite its junction with Felton Street and just east of 1715–17 Cambridge Street, its virtual duplicate. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and clapboarded exterior. The roof is pierced by four dormers with fully pedimented gable fronts, their windows flanked by small pilasters rising to entablatures. The building corners are also pilastered, rising to an entablature that encircles the building. The side gables are also fully pedimented. A single-story porch extends across the front, with Doric columns supporting an entablature and hip roof. The facade is six bays wide, with entrances in the two center bays.</p><br>
<p>This house, the one next door, and two others since demolished, were all built in 1845 as speculative rental property for Royal Richardson, a prominent local real estate developer. When completed, the four identical buildings would have presented a striking appearance on the north side of Cambridge Street. The survival of the contracts for their construction adds to their importance in understanding 19th century building practices, which lacked plans but included detailed specifications that mentioned existing buildings whose features and elements were to be copied.</p><br>
<p>The building at 42 Edward J. Lopez Avenue is a rare Federal period house in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. The two story wood-frame building has a hip roof and very simple styling. It was built about 1830, during the first period of East Cambridge&#39;s development after construction of the West Boston Bridge, and was moved to its present location c. 1900, probably as part of construction work in the area. The nature of the terrain in the area at that time means it cannot have been moved very far.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Building at 1715–1717 Cambridge Street is an historic multifamily house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Built in 1845, it is one of two identical surviving rental properties built by a local developer . The survival of their original building contracts provides an important window into the understanding of 19th century building practices. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>1715–17 Cambridge Street is located a short way east of Harvard Square, on the north side of Cambridge Street, and its junction with Summer Road and just west of 1707–09 Cambridge Street, its virtual duplicate. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and clapboarded exterior. The roof is pierced by four dormers with fully pedimented gable fronts, their windows flanked by small pilasters rising to entablatures. The building corners are also pilastered, rising to an entablature that encircles the building. The side gables are also fully pedimented. A single-story porch extends across the front, with Doric columns supporting an entablature and hip roof. The facade is six bays wide, with entrances in the two center bays.</p><br>
<p>This house, the one next door, and two others since demolished, were all built in 1845 as speculative rental property for Royal Richardson, a prominent local real estate developer. When completed, the four identical buildings would have presented a striking appearance on the north side of Cambridge Street. The survival of the contracts for their construction adds to their importance in understanding 19th century building practices, which lacked plans but included detailed specifications that mentioned existing buildings whose features and elements were to be copied.</p><br>
<p>In 1951 and 1952 George R. Welti lived in the house. Later as a consultant for NASA, Mr. Welti earned 10 patents in the field of space communications.</p><br>
<p>102–104 Inman Street is a historic house located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is locally significant as one of a series of well-preserved Greek Revival duplexes on Inman Street.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story wood-frame structure, six bays wide, with a side-gable roof and a central porch sheltering the pair of entrances. The house was built in 1845, and features very straightforward Greek Revival styling, most notably in the pilasters that run the full two-story height of the building, separating pairs of bays. The gable dormers in the roof have full pediments and pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Building at 10 Follen Street is a historic house at 10 Follen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The three-story wood-frame house was designed by Peabody & Stearns and built in 1875. It is a rare well-preserved example of the transition between Second Empire and Stick styles, with a truncated hip roof, a highly decorated porch, and most of its original interior woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982,</p><br>
<p>The Building at 104–106 Hancock Street is an historic cottage in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1839, it is a significant local example of transitional Greek Revival/Gothic Revival architecture, and one of the earliest houses built after the subdivision of Dana Hill. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>104–106 Hancock Street stands in the Dana Hill area of Cambridge, between Central Square and Harvard Square north of Massachusetts Avenue. It is set on the east side of Harvard Street, nearly opposite its junction with Centre Street, and is oriented facing south. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The roof extends over a shallow front porch for its full five-bay width, supported by Doric columns. The main entrance is at the center of the main block, which is extended to the east by an enclosed porch.</p><br>
<p>The area was historically the estate of jurist Francis Dana, which was divided among his heirs after his death. The main mansion was sold out of the family at that time, and burned down in 1839, spurring family members to sell buildable lots from their holdings. This house and the nearly identical house next door were both built in 1839. They exhibit fairly typical modest Greek Revival elements, but also include early examples of Gothic detailing in an applied-wood Gothic arch over the windows in the street-facing gable end. This house underwent a number of alterations between its construction and the 1940s; these have been reversed in a historically sensitive rehabilitation.</p><br>
<p>The Building at 106–108 Inman Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts is one of a series of well-preserved Greek Revival duplexes on Inman Street. This house was built in 1845, and features very straightforward Greek Revival styling, most notably in the pilasters that run the full two story height of the building, separating each of the front facade&#39;s bays. The building has a later Italianate porch sheltering the centered entrances.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Buildings at 110i112 Inman Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts are part of a series of well-preserved Greek Revival duplexes on Inman Street. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof and clapboard siding. It was built in 1845, and features very straightforward Greek Revival styling, most notably in the corner pilasters and the fully pedimented gable end. The porch with fluted columns wraps around three sides of the building, differentiating it from the other nearby Greek Revival duplexes.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The buildings at 15–17 Lee Street are a historic double house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1856, and is a rare local instance of an Italianate duplex. It has paired arched windows on the first floor, a richly decorated front porch, and an extended cornice. The corners of the first two floors have quoining, and the half story above alternates small windows and panels with balusters.</p><br>
<p>The houses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The City Hall Historic District is a historic district  encompassing buildings important in the early growth of the Central Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The focal point of the district is the monumental Richardsonian Romanesque Cambridge City Hall building on the north side of Massachusetts Avenue, two block west of the heart of the square. It also includes four buildings in the block just east of city hall, which is bounded by Bigelow and Temple Streets, Inman and Richard Allen Drives. City Hall was built in 1888 to a design by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow. Other buildings in the district include the Syrian Orthodox Catholic Church, built in 1822 and moved to 8 Inman Street from Lafayette Square in 1888, the 1888 Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Building at 763 Mass. Avenue, the 1912 Cambridge Electric Light Company Building at 719 Mass. Avenue, and the 1910 Cambridge YWCA at 7 Temple Street.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 1990, all of the district was also included in the larger Central Square Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Cloverden is an historic house at 29 Follen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, two asymmetrically placed chimneys, and clapboard siding. A single-story porch extends across the front, supported by Doric columns. The Greek Revival house was built in 1837.</p><br>
<p>The house served as bachelor housing for Harvard University faculty in the 1850s, and was known as a center of hospitality where "the famous Roman Banquet was given", according to William Watson Goodwin. Prominent occupants include geology professor Josiah Dwight Whitney, and Mary Mann, the mother of education reform proponent Horace Mann.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Sara Foster Colburn House is an historic house at 7 Dana Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1846, the -story wood-frame house is the best example of Gothic Revival architecture in the city. The building has bargeboard decoration on its front gable, which frames a deeply recessed porch with Gothic-style openings and a distinctive wrought iron railing of a type typically found only in the Connecticut River valley.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The William Cook House is an historic house at 71 Appleton Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States of America. The -story brick house was built in 1877, and is distinctive as a transitional Stick style/Queen Anne building executed using a rare construction material  for a residence in Cambridge. Queen Anne styling is evident in the varied massing and gables, and in the polychrome brick surface. It also has an extremely well preserved Victorian interior.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Josiah Coolidge House is an historic house at 24 Coolidge Hill Road in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Located on a drumlin overlooking the Charles River, this architecturally eclectic house was built in the 1820s, and was the farmhouse of the last working farm in the city. The farmlands were developed around the turn of the 20th century, and the house underwent significant alterations around 1900. In its present configuration it is stories in height and five bays wide, with a jerkin-headed side gable roof pierced by gable dormers, and projecting sections  under a flat roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Craigie Arms is a historic apartment house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Located in Harvard Square, the Georgian Revival four-story brick building was built in 1897 to meet local demand for apartment-style housing. The building occupies most of a city block along University Road, Mount Auburn Street, and Bennett Street. It is notable for its relatively modest decoration and the rounded corner projections.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The E. E. Cummings House is an historic house at 104 Irving Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The house was the childhood home of author and poet E. E. Cummings. The Colonial Revival house was built in 1893 for Cummings&#39; parents, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cummings house is set on a roughly triangular parcel formed by the junction of Irving and Scott Streets in the Shady Hill neighborhood east of Harvard University. It is a -story wood-frame structure with Colonial Revival massing and features. It has a projecting dentillated cornice below the gabled roof, and a porch supported by Tuscan columns. There is a projecting bay section at the center of the main facade to the left of the entry, and a single-story bay to its right. Windows are generally 1-over-1 sash, and the front entrance door is topped by a multilight transom window. Dormers of varying style project from the main roof.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Walker and Kimball for Edward E. Cummings, a professor at Harvard and a local pastor, and was built in 1893. Cummings&#39;s son, the poet E. E. Cummings, was born here the following year, and lived here until he graduated from Harvard (BA 1915, MA 1917), and moved to New York City. Cummings described the house in his six nonlectures: "My own home faced the Cambridge world as a finely and solidly constructed mansion, preceded by a large oval lawn and ringed with an imposing white-pine hedge," and "The big Cambridge house was in this respect, as in all other respects, a true home."</p><br>
<p>The Anna Day House is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame cottage was built in 1856, and is a well-preserved example of Gothic Revival styling. This instance in particular is notable for its drip-style bargeboard decoration. The house was built as part of the initial subdivision of the Strawberry Hill area. Other Gothic features, including finials on the gable and drip molding surrounding the windows, have been lost.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1982.</p><br>
<p>259 Mount Auburn Street is a small historic house built in the Italianate style of architecture located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Details surrounding the construction of the house are unclear, because it was apparently moved to the site where it currently resides in the late 1850s. Its Italianate styling places its construction right around 1850, and its small size (22 by 18) suggests that it might have originally been built as a railroad depot, probably from the Watertown Branch Railroad. It is two stories in height, with a shallow-pitch hip roof that extends to an unusual length beyond the walls, and is supported by large decorative brackets.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Dana-Palmer House  is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The two-story wood-frame house was built in 1823, and is basically Federal in its styling, although it has a Greek Revival porch. The house was built on land belonging to the Dana family, and was occupied by Richard Henry Dana Sr. among others, before its acquisition by Harvard University in 1835. From 1839 to 1843 the building was used as Harvards first astronomical observatory, before being converted for use as a residence for William Cranch Bond, the observatorys director. In 1947 the house was moved from the site where Lamont Library currently sits to its present location across Quincy Street,</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Today, Dana-Palmer House is home to Harvard&#39;s department of comparative literature.</p><br>
<p>The Deane-Williams House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This two story brick house was built in 1848, and is of an extremely unusual Italianate style. The overhang of its roof is deep, even for that style, and is studded with large paired brackets. The house is stuccoed, and at one time the stucco was incised to resemble ashlar stone. Its porches and balconies have ironwork railings that are unique in the city.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The DeRosay-McNamee House is an historic house at 50 Mt. Vernon Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a -story brick house, with a dormered hip roof and limestone trim. Its main facade exhibits high-quality Colonial Revival styling, with a symmetrical appearance that includes rounded bays flanking the main entry, and an entrance porch supported by clusters of distinctively turned columns. It was built c. 1895-6 by the principal owner of a local brickyard, who pioneered modernizations allowing for the year-round manufacture of bricks. It was later home to Cambridge mayor John H. H. McNamee.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Dodge House is a historic house at 70 Sparks Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1878 to a design by Longfellow and Clark. It has asymmetrical massing typical of Queen Anne styling, and also has a style of half-timbering on its upper levels that was popular in England in the 1860s. The exterior surfaces have a variety of textures, create by different sheathing types, including vertical boards, wood paneling, and brick patternwork.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Dunvegan is an historic apartment building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was built in 1898 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>According to a promotional booklet published in 1899, its name is derived from that of Scotlands Dunvegan Castle, whose coat of arms is worked into the apartments stained glass windows. It was constructed 25 feet from its adjoining apartment block, The Montrose, with which it connects via an underground passage. Both buildings are of the same height and similar size (six stories, with a frontage of eighty-five feet), built of the same materials, and with a similar architectural appearance, although the Montroses floorplan is roughly rectangular but the Dunvegans is triangular.</p><br>
<p>The Dunvegans vestibules, front hall, and stairway are finished in Siena marble, mahogany, and mosaic floors. Each of its twelve suites originally consisted of ten rooms and a bath, as follows: parlor, reception room, library, dining room, four bedrooms, kitchen and servants room, bathroom, servants water closet, and butlers pantry. The building also contained twelve bachelor suites of two rooms</p><br>
<p>and a bath apiece.</p><br>
<p>When constructed, the building was wired for doorbells and electric lights, and piped for gas and hot and cold running water. Heating was provided by low-pressure steam.</p><br>
<p>In the 1930s the buildings were reworked into one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments. The buildings are now served by Best Choice Apartments Shortill Realty. The firm is located on the first floor of the Montrose Building. The buildings have been well cared for and many original details remain.</p><br>
<p>The East Cambridge Historic District encompasses the historic center of East Cambridge, Massachusetts. It includes the major buildings that were built to house county services for Middlesex County beginning in the 1810s, and a cluster of largely vernacular Greek Revival worker housing located west of the county complex on Otis, Thorndike, Spring, and Sciarappa Streets. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Before the turn of the 19th century, the East Cambridge area was historically isolated from the rest of Cambridge by marshy land. The first organized development attempt, made by the Lechmere Point Corporation, began around that time and resulted in the layout of a rectilinear street grid in the area. It was the first planned land use of its type in the Boston area. The area&#39;s growth was the result of two key decisions: the first was a grant of land to the county for new facilities; the second was the establishment of the New England Glass Company, which spurred both residential construction and industrial development.</p><br>
<p>Major landmarks from the early years of East Cambridge&#39;s development are an 1827 Federal-style church, built as a Congregational church and based on an Asher Benjamin design, and the Charles Bulfinch-designed county courthouse, which has been surrounded by a complex of sympathetically-designed buildings that include the brick Queen Anne Putnam School. The major surviving industrial facility in the district is the Davenport factory, bounded by Otis, Thorndike, and First Streets, in which a high-profile furniture manufacturer operated into the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Vernacular workers&#39; housing in late Federal and Greek Revival styles were built in robust quantity in the area, some examples of which survive on Otis Street. A few Second Empire rowhouses were also built, in a simpler emulation of more sophisticated styles found in Boston. Few houses were built after circa 1890; there are only a few examples of Queen Anne and Colonial Revivals.</p><br>
<p>East Cambridge Savings Bank is a mutual savings bank in Massachusetts. Its branches serve communities north and west of Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1854.</p><br>
<p>The banks Art Deco headquarters building at 292 Cambridge Street in East Cambridge, Massachusetts was built in 1931 to a design by T. M. James. It has a triple-arched front facade, an element repeated on the side with three similarly scaled round-arch windows. Bands of carving adorn an entablature band at the top of the main wall, and on a stepped back section above. The buildings interior includes sculpture by Paul Fjelde and murals painted by Alfred Rasmussen. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Asa Ellis House is a historic house located at 158 Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a shallow-pitch hip roof. It was built in 1805, and is a rare surviving Federal-style building from the first construction boom in the Cambridgeport area. This development phase resulted from the 1793 construction of the first West Boston Bridge; most of the construction was relatively modest vernacular housing such as this one.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The R.H. Farwell House is an historic double house at 2222–2224 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The wood-frame house was built in 1891, at a time when what is now Massachusetts Avenue (then North Avenue) was lined with prestigious and fashionable houses. The house has matching center entries under a hip roof, flanked by a pair of two story polygonal bays, which once had brackets in the eaves (since removed). A pair of gabled dormers pierce the roof, space symmetrically near the outer edges.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Isaac Fay House is a historic house located at 125 Antrim Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame house was built in 1843, and is one of the city&#39;s best examples of a Greek Revival side-hall plan. It also has distinctive features, including a cupola and an Ionic wraparound porch, that are not found on any surviving period building in the city. The house was originally located on Fayette Street, and was moved to its present location in 1856. It belonged to Isaac Fay, a city alderman.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 (where it is misspelled as "Issac").</p><br>
<p>The Ernst Flentje House is an historic house at 129 Magazine Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This three story wood frame apartment house exhibits the adaptive reuse of buildings. It was built in 1866 as a Second Empire single family residence with a mansard roof. In 1900 it was restyled by Ernst Flentje and converted into a three unit apartment house. It is one of the most exuberantly decorated triple deckers in the city.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Follen Street Historic District is a historic district in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just northwest of the Cambridge Common. Follen Street is a quiet residential street, isolated from through streets by large masonry buildings that front on Waterford Street and Garden Street. All but three of the houses on the street were built no later than 1900, and show a remarkable quality of workmanship, despite being diverse in their styles. A number of the houses are specifically associated with educators, including a number of Harvard University professors. The Edwin Abbot House at 1 Follen Street is now the main building of the Longy School of Music of Bard College, and is separately listed on the National Register. Other houses listed separately include the Theodore W. Richards House at 15 Follen, the Second Waterhouse House at 9 Follen, and 10 Follen Street.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
