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Date: August 8, 2025
To: Members and Alternates of the Historical Commission
City Clerk, please post
From: Charles Sullivan, Executive Director
Re: Preliminary Agenda
The next meeting of the Cambridge Historical Commission will be on Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 6:00 P.M. This meeting will be held online with remote participation. The public may participate via Zoom (https://zoom.us/) from a phone, tablet, or computer. To join the meeting, register at https://tinyurl.com/CHC14aug2025 or call (301)715-8592. Webinar ID#: 843 5599 6451. Confirm meeting details or view meeting materials online at https://tinyurl.com/CHistComm. Submit written comment to histcomm@cambridgema.gov prior to 24 hours before the meeting.
Note that cases may be taken out of order and approved at the beginning of the meeting as part of a Consent Agenda. Persons who wish to have a hearing on a case should notify the Commission in advance or be present at the beginning of the meeting when the Consent Agenda will be discussed.
AGENDA:
1. Public Hearings: Alterations to Designated Properties
Case 5325: 4 Berkeley St., by Sowing Seeds LLC. Alter fences, paths and driveway. Install sign.
Case 5326: 17 Story St. (aka 127 Mt Auburn St.) and 129 Mt Auburn St., by 17 Story Street, LLC. Relocate and restore house (17 Story). Demolish 3-decker (129 Mt. Auburn). Construct hotel and residential building.
2. Public Hearing: Landmark Designation Proceedings
Case L-148: 17 Story St. (aka 127 Mt Auburn St.) Consider petition to initiate a landmark study of the Harriet Jacobs house.
3. Preservation Grants
4. Minutes (June 5 and July 10)
5. Director’s Report
6. Other Business