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Cambridge (/ ˈ k eɪ m b r ɪ dʒ / [4] KAYM-brij) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a suburb in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, located directly across the Charles River from Boston .
The Clifton Merriman Post Office Building, also known as the U.S. Post Office-Central Square is an historic post office at 770 Massachusetts Avenue within Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The post office was built in 1933 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as "U.S. Post Office-Central Square".
Memorial Drive, colloquially referred to as Mem Drive, is a 3.9-mile (6.3 km) parkway along the north bank of the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The parkway runs parallel to two major Boston parkways, Soldiers Field Road and Storrow Drive, which lie on the south bank of the river.
The area to the west and northwest of Central Square is known as Mid-Cambridge. Central Square is accessible from Central station on the MBTA Red Line , as well as Buses 1, 64, 70, 83, and 91. The New England Confectionery Co. water tower, built 1927, was painted in 1996 to resemble a roll of Necco Wafers , but repainted to a new design in 2004 ...
On May 17, 2004, shortly after midnight, the first legal applications in the United States for marriage licenses for same-sex couples were issued at Cambridge City Hall. At 9:15 a.m. that day, the Cambridge City Clerk began solemnizing same-sex marriages. [3] See same-sex marriage in Massachusetts.
Historic photo shows three 9-story buildings surrounding low-rise 549 Technology Square (at center), with Draper Lab visible (at right edge of picture). Tech Square was jointly developed by Cabot, Cabot & Forbes (CCF) and MIT on a 14-acre (5.7 ha) site which had previously housed a tenement (demolished in 1957) and a Lever Brothers soap factory (closed in 1959).
According to the 2012–2016 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, the largest ancestry groups in ZIP Codes 02115 and 02215 are: [18] [19] Ancestry Percentage of
The B B Chemical Company is an historic office and industrial building at 784 Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts.It was built in 1937 for the Boston Blacking Company, an adhesive manufacturer whose most famous brand name was Bostik, to a design by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott, and is a prominent local example of Streamline Moderne architecture.