30. BRATTLE HOUSE. Now Social Union, Brattle Street. 31. READ FARM. Now occupied by Dr. Driver, Brattle Street. 32. SITE OF AARON HILL HOUSE. Now occupied by St. John's Memorial Chapel, Brattle 33. SITE OF JOHN TALCOTT HOUSE. S. E. corner Brattle and Ash streets. 34. SITE OF SPREADING CHESTNUT TREE. Brattle Street, near Story Street. NEAR THIS SPOT SPREADING CHESTNUT TREE REFERRED TO IN LONGFELLOW'S POEM "THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH." 35. COL. HENRY VASSALL HOUSE. S. E. corner Brattle and Hawthorn streets. 36. JOHN VASSALL HOUSE. Brattle Street, opposite Longfellow Park. 37. JOSEPH E. WORCESTER HOUSE. Now occupied by Mrs. Chauncey Smith, Brattle Street. 38. SITE OF LECHMERE-SEWALL-RIEDESEL HOUSE. N. W. corner Brattle Street and Sparks Street (Mr. 39. LECHMERE-SEWALL-RIEDESEL HOUSE. N. W. corner Brattle Street and Riedesel Avenue. 40. LEE HOUSE. N. E. corner Brattle Street and Kennedy Avenue. 41. RUGGLES-FAYERWEATHER HOUSE. N. W. corner Brattle Street and Channing Place. 42. ELMWOOD. Elmwood Avenue, Mt. Auburn and Brattle streets. BIRTH PLACE OF OCCUPIED IN 1774 BY ELBRIDGE GERRY, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE 43. SITE OF CAPTAIN THATCHER'S HOUSE. E. corner Mt. Auburn Street and Coolidge Avenue. 44. BURIAL PLACE OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. Mt. Auburn Street, between Elmwood Avenue and Hawthorn 45. DUDLEY-LOWELL WILLOWS-PALISADES. Corner Charles River Roadway. 46. WINDMILL LANE. Ash Street. 47. RADCLIFfe College. Garden Street, corner Mason Street. 48. WASHINGTON ELM. Garden Street, corner Mason Street. UNDER THIS TREE FIRST TOOK COMMAND AMERICAN ARMY JULY 3D, 1775. 49. SITE OF WHITEFIELD ELM. Garden Street, nearly opposite Waterhouse Street. 50. DR. BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE HOUSE. Old house on Waterhouse Street, No. 7. 51. CAMBRIDGE COMMON. First Camp Ground, Puritan Monument, Old Cannon, Scion of Washington Elm. Inscription concerning Old Cannon. THESE GUNS SIEGE OF BOSTON DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Inscription on Soldiers' Monument. The Soldiers and Sailors of Cambridge, whose names are here inscribed, died in the service of their country, in the war for the maintenance of the Union. To perpetuate the memory of their valor and patriotism, this Monument is erected by the City, A. D. 1869-70. Inscription on Puritan Monument. (Front.) JOHN BRIDGE LEFT BRAINTREE, ESSEX COUNTY ENGLAND, 1631 AND STAYED WHEN THAT COMPANY HE HAD SUPERVISION OF THE FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL WAS SELECTMAN 1635-1652 DEACON OF THE CHURCH 1636-1658 REPRESENTATIVE TO THE GREAT AND GENERAL COURT 1637-1641 (West Side.) THIS PURITAN HELPED TO ESTABLISH HERE AND REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT A CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH. (North Side.) ERECTED AND GIVEN TO THE CITY BY SAMUEL JAMES BRIDGE OF THE SIXTH GENERATION (East Side.) THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD 52. CHRIST CHURCH. Garden Street, near Old Burying Ground. OLDEST CHURCH BUILDING IN CAMBRIDGE BUILT IN 1760 OCCUPIED BY CONTINENTAL TROOPS IN 1775. 53. SITE OF MOSES RICHARDSON HOUSE. Holmes Place, now occupied by Harvard Law School. HERE ASSEMBLED ON THE NIGHT OF 1200 CONTINENTAL TROOPS AFTER PRAYER BY 54. SITE OF HASTINGS-HOLMES HOUSE. Holmes Place, near Hemenway Gymnasium. SITE OF THE HEADQUARTERS AND THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY BIRTHPLACE OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 55. BIRTHPLACE OF COL. THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON. 7 Kirkland Street. 56. FOXCROFT-DANFORTH HOUSE. Site. N. E. corner Kirkland and Oxford streets. 57. JARED SPARKS HOUSE. Quincy Street, next south of new chapel. 58. HARVARD HALLS. College Yard. OF HOOKER, SHEPARD, LEVERETT, WIGGLESWORTH, Inscription on Boylston Hall, College Yard. |