North Cambridge Pro-Housing Walking Tour

1899 Massachusetts Avenue,Cambridge MA 02140

20 May, 2023

Description

Join ABC members on the third of ABC's series of neighborhood walking tours! We'll look at examples of the wide variety of housing in North Cambridge, starting with its late 19th century period as home to mostly working-class families and the small industries that employed them. We'll see the changes that occurred as industry faded away and this sparsely-settled outlying area filled in, mostly with residential buildings, and consider how and why the neighborhood adapted in some ways and how and why it didn't in others. We'll walk about 2 miles through North Cambridge, including a number of stops to look at the history of housing construction in these areas, affordable housing as it is in the community, and the variety of built structures throughout. We'll start outside Porter Square MBTA station, at junction of Mass Ave and Somerville Ave. We'll wind up on Mass Ave a few blocks north of the station. Rain Date: Sunday, May 21, 2:00-4:00pm. (We will send out an email to registered attendees the morning of the event if rain is likely.)