Porter Square Station
Porter Square Station is a railway station in City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts which is located on Massachusetts Avenue. Porter Square Station is situated nearby to the retail building Lovell Block, as well as near the work of art Gift of the Wind.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Railway station
- Also known as: “Porter”
- Address: Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Porter station and Gift of the Wind.
Porter station
Metro station
Photo: Hutima, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Lovell Block
Retail building
Photo: Daderot, Public domain.
The Lovell Block is an historic residential and commercial building at 1853 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The three-story brick building was built in 1882 by Andrew Jackson Lovell, with two specific commercial tenants in mind.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Porter Square and Avon Hill Historic District.
Porter Square
Neighborhood
Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Avon Hill Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Porter Square Station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.38813° or 42° 23′ 17″ northLongitude
-71.1188° or 71° 7′ 8″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
87JC9VQJ+7FOpenStreetMap ID
node 7120026997OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesGeoNames ID
4947853
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