Porter Square
Porter Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts, located around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Somerville Avenue, between Harvard and Davis Squares.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Porter station and Gift of the Wind.
Porter station
Metro station
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Porter station is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority transit station in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It serves the Red Line rapid transit line, the MBTA Commuter Rail Fitchburg Line, and several MBTA bus lines.
Gift of the Wind
Work of art
Gift of the Wind is a large-scale public kinetic sculpture, by Susumu Shingu, located in Porter Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Porter subway and commuter rail station.
Yume Wo Katare
Restaurant
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Yume Wo Katare is a ramen shop located at 1923 Massachusetts Avenue in the Porter Square neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It specializes in Yume-style ramen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Avon Hill Historic District and Spring Hill.
Avon Hill Historic District
Neighborhood
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The Avon Hill Historic District is a residential historic district near Porter Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Set atop Avon Hill southwest of Porter Square, this subdivision, laid out about 1870, contains a concentration of the finest Victorian and Second Empire residential buildings in the city.
Spring Hill
Neighborhood
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Spring Hill is a ridge in the central part of the city of Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, and the residential neighborhood that sits atop it.
Baldwin
Neighborhood
Baldwin, formerly known as Agassiz and also called Harvard North, Area 8 or Agassiz/Baldwin, is one of the thirteen neighborhoods of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Porter Square
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Categories: square and locality
- Location: Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.3885° or 42° 23′ 19″ northLongitude
-71.1193° or 71° 7′ 10″ westElevation
26 feet (8 metres)Open location code
87JC9VQJ+C7OpenStreetMap ID
node 2448023628OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Porter Square” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Porter Square”
- Chinese: “波特广场”
- Chinese: “波特廣場”
- Dutch: “Porter Square”
- French: “Porter Square”
- Japanese: “ポータースクエアー”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Porter Square”. Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0.