Kendall Square
Kendall Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The square itself is located at the intersection of Main Street and Broadway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 9,860 residents
- Description: neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Also known as: “Kendall Sq”, “Kendall Square (Cambridge)”, and “Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts”
Places of Interest
Highlights include MIT Museum and Kendall Hotel.
MIT Museum
Museum
The MIT Museum, founded in 1971, is part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It hosts collections of holography, technology-related artworks, artificial intelligence, architecture, robotics, maritime history, and the history of MIT.
Kendall Hotel
Hotel
The Kendall Hotel, or The Kendall Hotel, is a boutique hotel on Main St. in the Kendall Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It repurposed a firehouse built in 1895: it was once the Engine 7 Firehouse.
Kendall/MIT station
Metro station
Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kendall/MIT station is an underground rapid transit station in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is served by the MBTA Red Line. Located at the intersection of Main Street and Broadway, it is named for the primary areas it serves - the Kendall Square business district and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wellington-Harrington and East Cambridge.
Wellington-Harrington
Neighborhood
Wellington-Harrington, also known as Area 3, is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Overlapping with Inman Square and Kendall Square, it is bounded by Hampshire Street and Broadway on the southwest, the Grand Junction railroad tracks on the east, and the Somerville town line on the north.
East Cambridge
Neighborhood
Photo: Tim Pierce, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Cambridge is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. East Cambridge is bounded by the Charles River and the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston on the east, the Somerville border on the north, Broadway and Main Street on the south, and the railroad tracks on the west.
Central Square
Neighborhood
Photo: Eric Kilby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Central Square is an area in Cambridge, Massachusetts centered on the junction of Massachusetts Avenue, Prospect Street and Western Avenue. Lafayette Square, formed by the junction of Massachusetts Avenue, Columbia Street, Sidney Street and Main Street…
Kendall Square
- Categories: neighborhood and square
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.36261° or 42° 21′ 45″ northLongitude
-71.08761° or 71° 5′ 15″ westPopulation
9,860Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87JC9W76+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 13130783050OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
12382288Wikidata ID
Q6388934
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Kendall Square” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “肯德尔广场”
- Chinese: “肯德爾廣場”
- Dutch: “Kendall Square”
- French: “Kendall Sq”
- French: “Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts”
- French: “Kendall Square”
- German: “Kendall Square”
- Greek: “Πλατεία Κένταλλ”
- Japanese: “ケンドール・スクエア”
- Portuguese: “Kendall Square”
- Spanish: “Kendall Square”
- Swedish: “Kendall Square”
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Highlights include Building 76 East Plaza and Cambridge Center.
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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 “Kendall Square”. Photo: Daderot, CC0.