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Designated Property List |
WHAT PROPERTIES ARE SUBJECT TO COMMISSION REVIEW?
The Historical Commission maintains a street list of designated historic properties (see list below). This list is also available at the Historical Commission office and the Inspectional Services Department.
In addition, any structure over 50 years old is subject to the Demolition Delay Ordinance, the purpose of which is to provide an opportunity to consider preservation alternatives to demolition.
Check the street listing below to see if your property is designated and subject to review by one of our commissions. Call the Commission office at 617/349-4683 or TTY: (617) 349-6112 for application information.
The Designated Property List includes all properties in historic districts and neighborhood conservation districts, designated landmarks, properties under study for designation as a landmark or neighborhood conservation district, and properties protected by easements.
All properties on a street are designated, unless otherwise noted.
All Building Permits, Sign Permits, and Demolition Permits for Properties On This List Must Be Reviewed by the Cambridge Historical Commission.
The list is organized by alphabetical street
address. Properties in Harvard and Radcliffe Yards are listed by building name.
Scroll down the list or click on the first letter of the street name to jump ahead to that
portion of the list.
Alphabetical Index:
A B
C D E F
G H I J
K L M N
O P Q R
S T U V W
Harvard University Radcliffe Institute
Acorn Park, Building 20A, demo review
Adams Terrace
Agassiz Street
19 - end odd
18 - end even
Albany Street
91 only
Amory Place
Amory Street
Antrim Street
Appian Way
1 - 7, odd
2 - 8, even
Appleton Street
2 - 6, 88 even only
Arnold Circle
Arlington Street
11 - end odd
8 - end even
Arrow Street
Arsenal Square
Ash Street
1 - 3, 19, 23 - end odd
6, 22 - end even
Ash Street Place
8 - end, even only
Ashton Place
Auburn Street
107 only
Austin Park
Avon Place
Avon Hill Street
27 - end, odd
6 - end, even
B
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Baldwin Court
Baldwin Street
Banks Street
1 - 15 odd
2 - 18 even, and 22
Bates Street
Bellevue Avenue
Bellis Circle
16 (demo review)
Bennett Street
even numbers only
Berkeley Place
Berkeley Street
Bigelow Street
5A - end, odd
all even numbers
Binney Street
153 only
Bishop Allen Drive
145 - end, odd only
Blackstone Street
19-23, odd
Bow Street
Bradbury Street
all (except 22 - 28, even)
Brattle Square
Brattle Street
1 - 53, 79 - 215 odd
0 - 60, 76 - 204 even
Brewer Street
Broadway
321 - 475 odd
200, 322 - 474 even
Broadway Terrace
Brookline Street
21-23 (related demo review of 176 Green St)
Brown Street
1 - end odd
2 - 4, 10 - 20 even
Buckingham Street
1-7, odd only
C
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Cambridge Common
Cambridge Street
1353 - 1727 odd
1348 - 1734 even
Camden Place
Camelia Avenue
Carleton Street
28 only
Cedar Square
Cedar Street
39
Central Square
25
Centre Street
Channing Place
1 and 4
Channing Street
1 and 2
Chapman Place
Charles Street
35 (demolition review)
Chatham Street
Chauncy Street
33 - end, odd
Cherry Street
71 only
Church Street
Churchill Avenue
56
Cleveland Street
Clinton Street
5 - end odd
4 - end even
Cogswell Avenue
51
Concord Avenue
1 - 15 odd
2 - 18 even
Corliss Place
Corporal McTernan St
10-12, even only (demo review project)
Craigie Street
25 - 27, odd
8 - 26, even
Crawford Street
D
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Dana Place
Dana Street
all odd numbers
4 - end, even
Dewolfe Street
0 - 8, even only
Dinsmore Court
Doane Street
Donnell Street
26 (demolition permit review)
Dunster Street
1 - 77, odd
2 - 54, even
E
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Eliot Street
even numbers only
Ellery Street
9 - end, odd
8 - end, even
Ellsworth Avenue
Ellsworth Park
Elm St. (Cambridgeport)
140
Elmwood Avenue
Emmons Place
Erie Street
199-203, odd only (demo review)
F
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Fainwood Circle
Farwell Place
13 - end, odd
all even numbers
Fayerweather Street
2 - 6, even
55 (demo review)
Fayette Park
Fayette Street
Felton Street
First Street
1 (demolition review)
Follen Street
Foster Place
Foster Street
Fresh Pond Parkway
17
Frost Street
10
Fuller Place
G
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Garden Street
1 - 27, 31 - 35, odd
0 - 34 even, 86 - 88, even
Gerry Street
Gibson Street
Gibson Terrace
Goodman Road
Gore Street
85 only (Demolition review)
Gray Gardens East
1
Green Street
176 (demo review)
Greenough Avenue
Harvard
University
See list of named buildings below or
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(See also list of Radcliffe Institute buildings).
Austin Hall
Boylston Hall
Gannett House
Grays Hall
Greenough Hall
Harvard Hall
Hastings Hall
Hemenway Gymnasium
Holden Chapel
Hollis Hall
Holworthy Hall
Hurlbut Hall
Lehman Hall
Lionel Hall
Littauer Hall
Massachusetts Hall
Matthews Hall
Mower Hall
Pennypacker Hall
Phillips Brooks House
Stoughton Hall
Straus Hall
Thayer Hall
University Hall
Wadsworth House
Weld Hall
Wigglesworth Hall
H
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Hammond Street
71
Hampshire Street
109 - 111, 209 - end, odd
106, even,
146 - landmark study
186 - end, even
Hancock Park
Hancock Place
Hancock Street
85 - end, odd
90 - end, even
Harvard Square
all, including
Out Of Town News kiosk
Harvard Street
263 - 391, odd
258 - 400, even
Hawthorn Street
1 - end, odd
2 - 10, 48, even
Hayward Street
18-46 (Demolition review)
Highland Avenue
Highland Park
Hilliard Place
Hilliard Street
9 - end, odd
6 - end, even
Hillside Avenue
Hillside Place
Holden Street
34-36
Holyoke Place
all odd
2 - 16, even
Holyoke Street
1 - 31, odd
2 - 32, even
Hovey Avenue
Hubbard Park Road
38 - 48, even
Humboldt Street
1 - end, odd
4 - end, even
Hurley Street
257-261, odd (demo review)
Huron Avenue
1, odd
2, even
I
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Inman Court
Inman Place
Inman Square
Inman Street
11 - end, odd
14 - end, even
Irving Street
19 - 49, 95, odd
20 - 54, even
Irving Terrace
J
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James Street
Jay Street
30
(JFK Street)
John F. Kennedy Street
1 - 65, odd
2 - 62, even
K
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Kennedy, John F. Street
1 - 65, odd
2 - 62, even
Kenway Street
Kirkland Road
Kirkland Street
34 - 100, even only
L
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Lamont Avenue
Lancaster Street
7 - end, odd
14 - end, even
Larchwood Drive
54 (demo permit review)
Lee Street
11 - end, odd
14 - end, even
Leonard Avenue
Lexington Avenue
4
Linden Street
Line Street
all odd numbers
192 - end, even
Linnaean Street
9; 11; 21-23; 35-39; 49, odd
Longfellow Park
Lowell Park
Lowell Street
1, 3, 19 - end, odd, but excluding 21
16 - end, even
M
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Magazine Street
5
187
Magnolia Avenue
Main Street
135 - 145, 787 - 789, odd
684 - 708, even
Maple Avenue
Marie Avenue
Mason Street
Massachusetts Avenue
odd numbers: 757-765, 795, 1131-1201, 1341 - 1555; 1581-1583; 1587; 1595;
1637; 1797-1803; 1991
even numbers: 378, 452-458 (demo delay; landmark study), 534-538, 1008,
1110-1442, 1546-1552, 1560-1564, 1626, 1734
(Protected storefronts at 1304, 1316, and 1320-22)
Maynard Place
McLean Place
1-3
Mellon Street
1-5, odd only
Memorial Drive
784, 983 - 1000 odd and even
Mercer Circle
1, 9
Merrill Street
Mifflin Place
Mount Auburn Place
Mount Auburn Street
9 - 277 odd, excluding 205 and 221;
583 odd
4 - 158 even (excluding 38-50, 124, 130)
300-330, 580 even
Mount Vernon Street
15 - end, odd
16 - end, even
Myrtle Avenue
N
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Nichols Place
Norfolk Street
352, even, demo permit review (roof)
Nutting Road
O
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Old Dee Road
14 (demolition review)
Osborn Street
4 - 54, even
Otis Street
21-27 (demo review)
Oxford Street
114
P
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Palmer Street
Pearl Street
179, 189 odd (demo review project)
64, even (demo delay)
Pine Street
55 - 61, odd
Phillips Place
Plympton Street
1 - 57, odd
0 - 56, even (protected storefront at 30-30A)
Prescott Street
all even numbers
Prospect Street
87 - 251, odd only
Putnam Avenue
233-249, odd
22, even
Q
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Quincy Street
45
50
Radcliffe
Institute
See list of named buildings below or
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Agassiz Hall
Byerly Hall
Cronkhite Hall
Fay House
Radcliffe Gymnasium
Schlesinger Library
R
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Raymond Street
1 - 105, odd
40 - 106, even
Reardon Street
Remington Street
1 - end, odd
10 - end, even
Reservoir Street
25; 38
Revere Street
Riedesel Avenue
3 and 5
Rindge Avenue
310-324, even
River Street
109 - 113, odd only
Roberts Road
Ross Street
S
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Saint... (see St.)
Salem Street
6-8, even only
Second Street
110 (demolition review)
Shady Hill Square
1-12 (all)
Shaler Lane
Sibley Court
South Street
15-end, odd only
Sparks Place
Sparks Street
1 - 27, 51 - 59, odd
18 - 38, 52 - 58 even
Springfield Street
7 - 9, odd
8 even
St. John's Road
2 - 6, even only
St. Mary Road
St. Paul Street
Story Street
Sumner Road
T
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Talbot Street
Third Street
97 - 107, 275 - 279, odd
Thorndike Street
53 - 57, odd
66, even
Traill Street
2 - 8 even only
Trowbridge Place
Trowbridge Street
7 - end, odd
10 - end, even
Trowbridge Terrace
U
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University Road
2 - 6, even only
Upland Road
12 - 210, even only
V
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Vail Court
Vassar Street
269 - 287, odd only
W
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Walnut Avenue
Ware Street
Washington Avenue
11 - end, odd
8 - end, even
Waterhouse Street
Watson Street
14-1/2 and 16
Waverly Street
71 - 139, odd
66 - 136, even
West Bellevue Avenue
West Place
West Street
Willard Street
1 - end, odd
all even numbers
Willard Street Court
William Street
45-47, odd only (demo delay)
Windsor Street
424-430, even (Landmark study)
Winter Street
94 only (demo review)
Winthrop Street
all odd numbers
56 - end, even
Worcester Street
14
Wyman Street
Cambridge Historical Commission
November 2, 2007