<p>The Clifton Merriman Post Office Building, also known as the USA Post Office-Central Square is an historic post office at 770 Massachusetts Avenue within Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The post office was built in 1933 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as "USA Post Office-Central Square". In 1992, the United States Congress passed a bill renaming it for Clifton Merriman, an African-American World War I veteran who later became assistant superintendent of the main Post Office in Cambridge.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Hoyt House is a historic house located at 134 Otis Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame house was built in 1868, and is one of the only bracketed Italianate houses to survive in East Cambridge. It has a front-facing gable whose cornice includes dentil moulding and brackets, and whose fully pedimented gable end has a round-arch window in the tympanum area. The main roof cornice also has dentil moulding and paired brackets, and the front windows have slightly projecting lintel caps.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Hubbard Park Historic District encompasses a residential development and park west of Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The area was originally the estate of Gardiner Hubbard, who had a 6 acre estate and house on nearby Brattle Street. In the 1880s Hubbard commissioned architects to build a ring of high quality homes around his mansion, which was demolished in 1939 and is now the site of Hubbard Park. The houses in this development are now located on Mercer Circle, Sparks Street, and Hubbard Park Road.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Jarvis is a historic apartment building at 27 Everett Street, on the north side of the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1890, the -story brick building was one of the first apartment houses built in the vicinity of northern Massachusetts Avenue. At the time, Massachusetts Avenue north of Harvard was predominantly lined with large fashionable houses. The Jarvis fit into this to some extent by being designed to resemble a large single family residence of the time. The building has irregular Queen Anne massing, polychrome trim, and massive corbelled end chimneys.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The William R. Jones House is an historic house at 307 Harvard Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame house, whose Second Empire styling includes a flared mansard roof and flushboarded siding scored to resemble ashlar stone. It has a rare example in Cambridge of a curvilinear front gable, in which is an oculus window. Its windows are topped by heavy decorative hoods, and the porch features square posts with large decorative brackets. The house was built c. 1865 for William R. Jones, a soap manufacturer, and typifies the houses that were built lining Harvard Street in the 19th century after the Dana estate was subdivided.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Kidder–Sargent–McCrehan House, also known as the Kidder–Sargent House, is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 2.5-story wood-frame house was built c. 1792 by Nathaniel Kidder, and is one of the oldest and least-altered buildings of the period in northwest Cambridge, and the only one on its original site. The house follows a typical Georgian center-chimney plan, with two rooms on either side of the chimney on each floor. The house was sold out of the Kidder family to Solomon Sargent in 1835, and was acquired by Jeremiah McCrehan in 1876.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Chester Kingsley House is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The oldest portion of this architecturally eclectic house was built in 1866, with Second Empire styling. The original owner was Chester W. Kingsley, a local politician, and the builder was Stephen Stiles. Kingsley had the house remodeled in 1890, adding a tower and ell. At the same time, the house&#39;s Second Empire ornament was replaced with Queen Anne and Colonial Revival ornament. Wellington Fillmore was the builder who executed the work. Kingsley and his wife lived in the house until their deaths in 1904. In 1908 the house was leased by Mae I. Copp and Minnie A. Copp as a private hospital, which became known as the Chester Hospital. During the occupancy of the Copp sisters, the house was altered several times, most substantially in 1919, when architect William Sidebottom designed a three-story extension to the ell.</p><br>
<p>The house was later a nursing home, and is now apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Lechmere Point Corporation Houses is a historic apartment rowhouse at 45–51 Gore St. and 25 3rd Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built sometime before 1821, this -story brick-and-wood structure is the only surviving building to be built by the Lechmere Point Corporation, which developed East Cambridge in the early decades of the 19th century. The house was owned for a time by lawyer and politician Christopher Gore, a principal of the corporation who also speculated in area real estate. Two of the buildings  have retained their original gable roofs, while 49 Gore Street has been raised to a full three stories and given arched windows, and 51 Gore Street has had a mansard roof added.</p><br>
<p>The houses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Hupmobile Building is located at 2523 Farnam Street in Midtown Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1917 on the city&#39;s historic Auto Row, the building was an early Hupmobile dealership. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The building was built as a dealership, service shop, and factory branch for Hupmobile. In 1925, the Hupmobile dealership was moved to a larger building at 20th and Harney Streets. The Farnam Street building was used by several other automobile dealerships until 1940, selling brands including Hudson, Willys Knight, and Terraplane. The building housed a flight school from 1941-1943, and the Sterling Manufacturing Company 1943-2003. Sterling produced coffins, ship parts, and water heaters during World War II.</p><br>
<p>Rufus Lamson House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, a few blocks from the Lamson Place.</p><br>
<p>The house was apparently built and owned by Rufus Lamson (October 2, 1809 – July 13, 1879) and then inherited by his widow Mary Jane Lamson (Butler) (1812–1885) whom he married at Boston, on Thanksgiving Eve, 1832. Rufus Lamson was a stonemason and a large holder of real estate, known for his liberal treatment of the landlord and tenant relation. He was a member of the Universalist Church in Cambridge and served as an assessor for the city for twenty-two years.</p><br>
<p>Rufus Lamson and his son, Rufus William Lamson (1833–1912) ran a firm Rufus Lamson & Son that built many of the substantial brick structures now standing in Cambridgeport.</p><br>
<p>Asa Caleb Lamson (1848–1924), the youngest son of Rufus Lamson, has completed in 1908 a 5-story mansion located at 351 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA, called The Lamson, presently occupied by Lambda Phi chapter of Alpha Delta Phi of MIT.</p><br>
<p>The Kirkland Place Historic District is a historic district in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The district, which abuts the Harvard University campus to the west, contains an architecturally cohesive and distinctive set of seven houses, six of which were completed before 1857. Four houses were designed by Isaac Cutler, who laid out Kirkland Place in 1855. To make way for these four houses, Cutler moved an 1839 Greek Revival house, now 14 Kirkland Place, to the back of its lot. Cutler&#39;s houses  are all Italianate houses with brackets. The Loring-Pierce House at 4 Kirkland Place is an 1856 Second Empire house designed by local architect Horace Greenough, and is the only one of his designs to survive in the city. The seventh house, a brick house built in 1921 to a design by Ernest Seavern, is small and set back, not intruding on its older neighbors.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Larches is a historic house at 22 Larch Road in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This -story wood-frame house was built c. 1808, and originally stood on one of the last of Cambridges large Brattle Street estates to be subdivided. It was moved to its present location in 1915, at which time it underwent renovations and alterations designed by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. The buildings interior and exterior both retain significant Federal style detailing. The house was built by William Gray, a Salem merchant, as a summer house. Twentieth century owners included composer Randall Thompson.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Littlefield-Roberts House is a historic house located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame house was built in 1873 by Joseph Littlefield, and is one of the finest late Second Empire houses in the city. The main facade has a heavily ornamented entry on the left, and a full-height projecting bay on the right that is capped by a polygonal roof. The roof is pierced by hip-roofed dormers whose windows have decorated surrounds.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Lowell School is an historic school building located at 25 Lowell Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1883, it is the only surviving wood-frame school building in the city. It is a two-story structure with a hip roof, clapboard siding, and a brick foundation. The building features minimal decoration, with Italianate brackets in the eaves and paired narrow windows in the Italianate style. It was designed by local architect James Fogerty, assisted by his son, George Fogerty, who both designed many public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Lovering House is an historic house located at 38 Kirkland Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The -story Greek Revival wood-frame house was built in 1839 by Oliver Hastings, a high-profile local builder (whose own mansion is now a National Historic Landmark), in conjunction with Luther Brooks, owner of the next-door house. It was purchased in 1843 by Joseph Lovering, a math professor at Harvard University, and remained in his family until 1941. After serving for a number of years as part of a nursing home, the house was acquired by Harvard in 1961.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It currently houses Harvard&#39;s Center for Middle Eastern Studies.</p><br>
<p>The Lovell Block is an historic residential and commercial building at 1853 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The three-story brick building was built in 1882 by Andrew Jackson Lovell, with two specific commercial tenants in mind. One was his own grocery business, and the other was the North Cambridge Post Office. The upper floors contained a total of four well-appointed residential flats. The building was an early instance of a mixed-use residential-commercial structure, at a time when most lower-income housing was tenement-style, and the idea of higher-quality residential rental property was relatively new.</p><br>
<p>The block was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Memorial Drive Apartments Historic District is a historic district encompassing four apartment houses on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They are located between the Anderson Memorial Bridge and the Eliot Bridge with street numbers ranging from 983 to 993 Memorial Drive. All four buildings were built between 1916 and 1924, not long after Memorial Drive had been laid out, and were, despite significant similarities of style, designed by three different architects. All provide good views of the Charles River. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Strathcona-on-the-Charles (992-993 Memorial Drive) was the first to be built. Designed by W. L. Mowll, it stands on an irregularly shaped lot with curving frontage, and was designed with deep courtyards, a style originated by Ralph Adams Cram, that provided every unit with a view of the river or the courtyard. Radnor Hall (983-984 Memorial Drive) and Hampstead Hall (985-986) followed soon after, in 1916, designed by Charles R. Greco. They differ from the Strathcona in their general styling (Georgian vs. Tudor), deeper courtyards, and in their first floors, which are finished in cast stone instead of brick. Barrington Court (987-989) was the last to be built, in 1924, to a design by R. B. Whitten. It has the deepest courtyard of the four buildings, and is the most symmetrical in appearance. The four buildings are of roughly equal height, and form a distinctive landmark on that portion of the river.</p><br>
<p>The Josiah Mason Jr. House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story brick structure, three bays wide, with a side-gable roof and a single end chimney. The entrance, located in the rightmost bay, is in a recess flanked by sidelight windows. The recess is framed by a Greek Revival surround with pilasters and entablature. Built in 1831, this house is a locally rare example of late Federal style architecture with a side-hall plan. Josiah Mason was a local merchant and politician who served as Cambridge selectman and in the state legislature.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The W. A. Mason House is an historic house at 87 Raymond Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1846 and extended to the rear in 1867, giving it a T shape. Its massing is Italianate as are its decorative window hoods, but its corner pilasters give it a Greek Revival character. The main entrance is accessed through a single-story porch occupying the front crook of the T. W. A. Mason, for whom it was built, was a city surveyor who was responsible for surveying and platting a significant amount of the city in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Maple Avenue Historic District is a residential historic district on Maple Avenue between Marie Avenue and Broadway in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It encompasses a street with a cohesive collection of well-preserved, predominantly Italianate and Second Empire, houses, in which the original spacing and setting has been preserved. It includes houses on both sides of Maple Avenue, numbered from 8 to 33, among which stand several Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>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. Lining both sides of the middle area of Maple Avenue are fifteen houses whose scale and setting typify the development of that period.</p><br>
<p>All of the houses are wood frame structures, and all but one are two stories in height. One house is a duplex. Five houses are Second Empire in style, typically with slate mansard roofs, bracketed cornices, and ornate window and porch details. There are two Italianate houses, each with flushboarded facades and elaborately-decorated entry porches. Some of the later houses have Queen Anne styling, but most of the remaining housing stock is Colonial Revival in character. The properties are characterized by relatively generous lot sizes, especially in comparison to the immediately surrounding properties.</p><br>
<p>The Lowell is an historic triple decker apartment house on 33 Lexington Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1900 to a design by local architect John Hasty, it is a rare multiunit building in the Brattle Street area outside Harvard Square. The Colonial Revival building has a swan&#39;s neck pediment above the center entry, which is echoed above the central second story windows. Doric pilasters separate the bays of the front facade, and the building distinctively has side porches, giving it added horizontal massing. It was built before the decision was made to locate the electrified trolleys on Mount Auburn Street instead of Brattle , a decision that reduced interest in building more multiunit housing in that area.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Montrose is a historic multiunit residential building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a six-story yellow brick building, whose Italian Renaissance details include a copper cornice with modillions, varied window treatments on each floor, belt courses of brickwork between some of the floors, and a front entry surround with fluted Doric columns. Built in 1898, it was one of the first "French flat" luxury apartment houses built in the city. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>According to a promotional booklet published in 1899, it was constructed 25 feet from its adjoining apartment block, The Dunvegan, with which it connects via an underground passage. Both buildings are of the same height and similar size (six stories in height, 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. The Montroses 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 bed rooms, kitchen and servants room, bath room, servants water-closet, and butlers pantry.</p><br>
<p>When constructed, the building was wired for door bells and electric lights, and piped for gas and hot and cold running water. Heating was provided by low-pressure steam.</p><br>
<p>The Wyeth-Smith House is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof. Its only significant decorative element is the entrance, which is flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, with an entablature above. It was built in 1820 by Jacob Wyeth, and leased to Ebenezer Smith, a tenant farmer. The house, which is the finest extant period farmhouse in the area, was originally located at the junction of Fresh Pond Parkway and Huron Avenue, and was relocated to its present site in 1893.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The John Wyeth House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and two irregularly-placed chimneys. A porch extends across the front, supported by fluted Ionic columns. It was built in 1841, and originally stood across the street from the gate of Mount Auburn Cemetery. It was moved to its present location in 1922–23; it is one of the oldest Greek Revival houses in Northwest Cambridge.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Upper Magazine Street Historic District is a historic district encompassing a well-preserved stretch of mid-19th century housing in the Cambridgeport neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It includes two blocks of Magazine Street, between Upton and William Streets, and one block of William Street, between Magazine and Pearl Streets. The properties in the district include a diversity of architectural styles popular between the 1840s and 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Isaac McLean House is an historic house at 2218 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1894 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>In 1894, Isaac McLean (a well-known Boston Accountant) engaged architects Hartwell and Richardson, and the 2218 Massachusetts Avenue (then known as North Avenue) property was built for his residence. The house was built on one of the lots then known as the Farwell Estate. A well-maintained Colonial Revival (one of the two dominant architectural styles during 1870–1920; the other being the Tudor Revival) graced by a wide porch across the entire front with classic fanlight (or transom) above the main entrance, as well as sidelights. One cannot help but notice the handsome pillars with Ionic capitals and ornamental balustrade as well as the dentils under the cornice, typical of this era. The Isaac McLean House, has been known for over 25 years as A Cambridge House Inn. This property, together with a handful of other Victorian homes represents architecture of historical significance. "This grouping of houses represents the sole remnant of what Massachusetts Avenue once was, the most prestigious Cambridge address for mid to late nineteenth century residential construction."</p><br>
<p>The Alpheus Mead House is a historic house located along Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house has a -story wood-frame structure with a mansard roof. Dormers piercing the roof are topped either by shallow gables or segmented-arch roofs. Modillions line the main roof eave and windows are topped by over-length projecting lintels. The house has also retained its elaborately decorated porch. Built in the mid-1860s, this Second Empire house is one of just a few such houses to survive along Massachusetts Avenue. Its first documented owner was Alpheus Mead, a butcher.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Isaac Melvin House is a historic house at 19 Centre Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This -story Greek Revival-Italianate house was built in 1842 by Oliver Wood and Isaac Melvin as the latters home. Melvin is also notable for designing the North Avenue Congregational Church. Despite an Italianate T-shaped massing, the buildings front facade is strongly Greek Revival, with 4 two-story pilasters supporting an entablature and topped by the fully pedimented gable end of the roof. The tympanum of the pediment has an Italianate round-arch window in it.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The New England Confectionery Company Factory, also known as the NECCO Candy Factory, is a historic factory complex at 250 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The property is now owned by DFS Advisors, and is under long-term lease to Novartis. The complex, which includes the factory building, a power plant, and a modern  parking garage, occupies most of an entire city block bounded by Massachusetts Avenue, Cross Street, Albany Street, and Lansdowne Street. The Moderne-style building was constructed of reinforced concrete, faced predominantly with beige brick and trimmed with limestone. On some facades smooth concrete predominates as the finish surface. The building had a water tower that was painted to resemble a roll of Necco Wafers; during the alterations of the property for use by Novartis, the water tower was retained, and is now painted with a DNA pattern in pastel colors. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Company history</h2><br>
<p>The New England Confectionery Company was formed in 1901 by the merger of three Boston-area confectioners. One of these, Ball and Fobes, had in 1860 acquired another competitor whose equipment included precursors to those used to manufacture Necco Wafers. Ball and Fobes developed methods to print writing on hard candies. It was built in 1925-27 to serve as the companys sole manufacturing facility, replacing earlier facilities (which are now part of the Fort Point Channel Historic District) in Boston, and was at the time the worlds largest candy factory. The building was designed in the Moderne style by a company engineer, F. C. Lutze, and built by Lockwood & Greene. The company used the facility as its major production facility until 2003, when it consolidated operations in Revere.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew Newman House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a central chimney and an entrance sheltered by an enclosed vestibule. Built in 1823, this single story wood-frame house is one of the oldest houses in the Cambridgeport area of the city. The house is also unusual for its construction date, since it is a Georgian style Cape house, as opposed to the then-prevalent Federal style. Its first owner was a ropemaker.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Norfolk Street Historic District is a historic district at Norfolk Street between Suffolk and Bishop Allen Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It encompasses two distinct phases of 19th century residential development in the city: a period in the 1840s when a series of Greek Revival cottages was built , and the 1880s, when four-story "hotel"  construction predominated . Many of the Greek Revival cottages have been altered, although that at 73 Norfolk is particularly well preserved. The district features works by James Fogerty and other local architects.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The J.A. Noyes House is an historic house at 1 Highland Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide with a gambrel roof and clapboard siding. The second floor hangs slightly over the first floor in a reminder of the early colonial garrison style. The main entrance is flanked by short sidelight windows and topped by a narrow semi-oval fanlight. A rounded bay projects to the left of the entrance, and gabled dormers pierce the roof. The house was built in 1894 to design by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow and is a well-kept example of Colonial Revival architecture; the yard was originally landscaped by Charles Eliot. The house is significant in part for the survival of its construction documentation.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>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 district includes five National Historic Landmarks: Elmwood, the Reginald A. Daly House, the Oliver Hastings House, the Mary Fiske Stoughton House, and the Longfellow House–Washingtons Headquarters National Historic Site, as well as several other houses listed separately on the National Register. The district follows the general route of the Watertown Path, an early colonial road that supposedly followed a Native American trail. This portion of the way became known as Tory Row during the American Revolution, because many of the fine mansions lining it were owned by Loyalists. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it continued by a fashionable location, and now features a number of architecturally significant buildings. It includes 215 contributing buildings and one other contributing sites over an area of 52 acre. One included building is the Cambridge Historical Societys offices, which are in the NRHP-listed Hooper-Lee Nichols House, located at 159 Brattle Street.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1983. It abuts a number of other historic districts, including the Cambridge Common Historic District, the Ash Street Historic District, and the Berkeley Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Old Cambridgeport Historic District is a historic district along Cherry, Harvard and Washington Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It contains some of the oldest surviving houses north of Massachusetts Avenue in the Cambridgeport section of the city. It includes the entire block of Cherry Street between Harvard and Washington Streets, as well as a few buildings on those two streets. The oldest houses are the Samuel Fay House  and the Margaret Fuller House .</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, where it is spelled "Cambridgport".</p><br>
<p>Opposition House is an historic double house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The two story hip-roofed wood-frame house was built in 1807 by Judge Francis Dana, who was seeking to prevent the laying of Harvard Street across his estate, making it a kind of spite house. Dana&#39;s efforts were unsuccessful; the road was routed around this house, which he had sited along the intended route. The house was moved to its present location in the 1860s. It is the oldest surviving house on Dana Hill.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Peabody Court Apartments are a historic apartment building at 41-43 Linnaean Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The four story Colonial Revival brick building was built in 1922. The H-shaped building has deep courtyards, and is trimmed with limestone elements, including corner quoins, window sills, and keystone lintels. It is a well-preserved example of a courtyard apartment block, a style popularized in 1898 by Ralph Adams Cram.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Sarah Orne House is an historic house at 10 Coolidge Hill Road in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this house was built in 1807 by John Orne, and originally functioned as a store. It was moved in 1809 and expanded into a house by Ornes mother Sarah. It is now a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a single-story porch spanning its front. The central window on the second floor has a rounded arch. The house was associated with the citys last working farm, which operated in the Coolidge Hill area. The former service wing of the house was separated from it in the 1930s, and now stands as a separate residence at 8 Coolidge Hill Road.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Dexter Pratt House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is remembered as the home of Dexter Pratt, the blacksmith who inspired the poem "The Village Blacksmith" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1808 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was built for blacksmith Torrey Hancock, who sold the home in 1827 to fellow blacksmith Dexter Pratt. Pratt worked there until his death in 1847; his widow lived there until her death in 1858. It was then passed on to the couple&#39;s married daughter Annie Louise Pratt Smith.</p><br>
<p>Dexter Pratt was the village blacksmith that inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow&#39;s poem "The Village Blacksmith". Longfellow published the poem in 1841 as part of Ballads and Other Poems, which also collected "The Wreck of the Hesperus". The poem proved to be popular. It mentioned a "spreading chestnut tree" where Dexter Pratt worked and, when a plan for Brattle Street to be widened was enacted in 1870, the tree was threatened. Initially, the road was built such that the tree was standing in the middle of the street. This set-up did not last long and when the tree was cut down, the children of Cambridge raised money to have the wood converted into an armchair and presented it to Longfellow in 1879, inspiring him to write a poem in gratitude titled "From my Arm-Chair".</p><br>
<p>After Pratt, the home was owned by Mary Walker and her family. Walker was born into slavery in North Carolina in 1818 and escaped to freedom in 1848. After the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, she moved to Milton, Massachusetts before settling in the Pratt House in 1870, which was purchased from the daughter of Dexter Pratt. She lived here with her family for about 40 years. Annie Louise Pratt Smith had by then moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, with her husband George. The purchase of the $4,500 house on June 1, 1870, was subsidized by activist James Murray Howe, who deeded it to Mary Walker the next day.</p><br>
<p>In the 1930s, the Pratt House was remodeled into a fashionable tea house by local women in Cambridge who employed refugees who had escaped Nazi occupation in Europe. It eventually became a restaurant called the Cock Horse Inn. It was then purchased in 1947 by a group of women including Elsa Brändström Ulich as the new location of The Window Shop, which hired refugees and immigrants, and may have been the first business in Harvard Square to employ African American women. Ulich personally persuaded the group to choose the Pratt House as their location, though it was then in disrepair and its purchase necessitated raising $40,000 in loans.</p><br>
<h2>Modern use</h2><br>
<p>The building is now owned by the Cambridge Center for Adult Education which also owns the historic William Brattle House. The chestnut tree from the poem was commemorated in 1989 with a modern iron sculpture by Dimitri Gerakaris, whose anvil and other tools were incorporated into the metalwork. An engraved stone marks the spot where the tree once stood.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, the CCAE received a Preservation Award from the Massachusetts Historical Commission for its restoration efforts of the house.</p><br>
<p>The Cheney Read House is an historic house at 135 Western Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1846 by William Hyde, and is the only house in Cambridge&#39;s Cambridgeport neighborhood with a two-story Greek portico. It has four full-height Doric columns, with a gable end that is steeper than the usual Greek Revival style. It has a side-entry plan, with the entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a pedimented lintel.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The J. A. Wood House is a historic house located at 3 Sacramento Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The large -story wood-frame Colonial Revival house was built in 1888 for James Wood, a lumber dealer. The house was designed by Hartwell and Richardson and originally faced Massachusetts Avenue. In 1925 it was rotated ninety degrees to face Sacramento Street, in order to make way for commercial development. The house is a wide five bays across, with a hip roof that is pierced by three dormers, and a left-side ell that is set back. The front entry is sheltered by a gable-front portico, which is supported by a series of paired Tuscan columns on each side.</p><br>
<p>Since 1958, the J.A. Wood House, along with a neighboring Victorian structure at 1705 Massachusetts Avenue, have been home to Harvard&#39;s Dudley Co-op, an alternative on-campus housing co-operative for undergraduate students. Famous alumni of the Dudley Co-Op include Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The S. B. Withey House is an historic house at 10 Appian Way in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame Greek Revival house, three bays wide, with a front-facing gable roof and clapboard siding. Its entrance is recessed in the leftmost bay in an opening flanked by pilasters and topped by a Tudor arch. The house was built c. 1855–56 by S. B. Withey, and is one of a few residential houses in the Harvard Square area that still stands at its original site.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Winter Street Historic District is a historic district on Winter Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Centered on the junction of Winter Street with Sciarappa Street, the district includes sixteen houses, fourteen of which were worker&#39;s cottages built before 1854. Many early residents of the area were employed by the New England Glass Company, whose factory was nearby. The district is the best-preserved streetscape of such worker housing in East Cambridge.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Cambridge MA Winter Street Historic District 2.jpgA house on Winter Street in the historic district.</p><br>
<p>The Stillman Willis House is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This -story house was built in 1839, and was originally located nearby on Massachusetts Avenue. It was moved to its present location in 1883, at which time it was extensively modernized, overlaying its Greek Revival features with Italianate and Colonial Revival styling. Surviving Greek Revival elements include corner pilasters and an entablature, while later features include bracketed window cornices and extensive decorative woodwork on the porches.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Abraham Watson House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a gable roof that has a gambrel front. It was built c. 1750 by Abraham Watson, Jr., who was politically active during the American Revolution. The house features, including molded surrounds on the windows, indicate that Watson was a man of substance. The house is one of only two colonial houses standing in North Cambridge, and is the oldest house in the city outside Old Cambridge.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick Slowey House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It is a 1½ story wood-frame structure, set on a high brick basement. The front facade is three bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a modest Italianate hood and accessed by a side-facing stair. The house was built in 1852 for Patrick Slowey, a laborer, and retains original elements, including its clapboard siding. It is one of the best-preserved workers&#39; houses in northwestern Cambridge.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, where it is listed at 73 Bolton Street.</p><br>
<p>The Shady Hill Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Museum, Beacon and Holden, and Kirkland Streets, and Francis Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The district encompasses a residential area that is one of the city&#39;s most homogeneous neighborhoods of the second half of the 19th century. Located just east of the Harvard University campus, the area is characterized by large lot sizes and winding roads, with mature trees providing shade. The houses in the district are predominantly Queen Anne and Colonial Revival in character.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Shell Oil Company "Spectacular" Sign is a historic advertising sign by the Shell USA  located at 187 Magazine Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Shell USA sign was built in a Moderne style in 1933 by Donnelly Electric Manufacturing Company, and was originally located on the Shell Company building in Boston on Commonwealth Avenue, which now houses Boston University Academy.</p><br>
<p>It was moved to its present site adjacent to Memorial Drive in 1944. It is, along with the Citgo sign in Boston, one of only two surviving advertising signs of its type in the area. Although the regular station signage is updated to reflect the company&#39;s current logo, the "Spectacular" sign itself also remains in the same location where it has always been.</p><br>
<p>The sign was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Edmund Reardon House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 2.5-story Queen Anne house was built in 1884 for Edmund Reardon, whose family operated a nearby soap factory. The house has elaborately decorated porches and half-timbering in various gable ends.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Edmund Reardon</h2><br>
<p>On Tuesday, October 24, 1939, Edmund Reardon, the oldest active banker in the country, died at 102 years of age in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a vice president and a director of the Union Savings Bank. He also active in Cambridge city politics, serving as alderman and councilor.</p><br>
<p>River Street Firehouse is an historic firehouse at 176 River Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a two-story brick building, with a hip roof and two vehicle bays. It was designed by local architect George Fogerty in the Queen Anne style, and was completed in 1890. It has short towers with pyramidal roofs at the front corners, and has decorative herringbone brickwork. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The firehouse has been the home of Engine 6 of the Cambridge Fire Department since the building&#39;s construction.</p><br>
<p>Ware Hall is an historic residential apartment building at 383 Harvard Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed by local architect George Fogerty and built in 1893. Fogerty was also the architect of Claverly Hall, a similar building, on Mount Auburn Street. This five story brick Classical Revival building is a rare example of an apartment house built in Mid Cambridge that was designed to cater to Harvard University students. Apartment blocks of this quality were generally built closer to the Harvard campus, so this one stands out when compared to other apartment house in its immediate surroundings.</p><br>
<p>Ware Hall was viewed as one of the most luxurious lodging options for Harvard students at the time of its construction, and some saw it in terms of changing student preferences. As one newspaper wrote, "It will not do to tell the freshmen of today that a ramshackle room that he is shown was once occupied by Daniel Webster or Thomas Jefferson."</p><br>
<p>The foundation was in granite, the first story is of light Scotch brick, and the belts on the first and fourth stories are Indiana limestone.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its construction, it was the first dormitory to include a passenger elevator.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
