Harvard Square
Harvard Square is a triangular plaza at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street and John F. Kennedy Street near the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.Photo: Wgreaves, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Square
- Description: square near the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Harvard Sq”, “Harvard Square Historic District”, and “Harvard Square, Cambridge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Harvard station and Harvard Kennedy School.
Harvard station
Metro station
Harvard station is a rapid transit and bus transfer station in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Located at Harvard Square, it serves the MBTA's Red Line subway system as well as MBTA buses.
Harvard Kennedy School
University
Photo: KAKM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The John F. Kennedy School of Government, commonly called the Harvard Kennedy School, is the graduate school of public policy of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Harvard Kennedy School is situated 1,100 feet southwest of Harvard Square.
Houghton Library
Library
Photo: Daderot, Public domain.
Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to Widener Library, Lamont Library, and Loeb House, is Harvard University's primary repository for rare books and manuscripts. Houghton Library is situated 820 feet east of Harvard Square.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Cambridge Historic District and Riverside.
Old Cambridge Historic District
Neighborhood
The Old Cambridge Historic District is a historic district encompassing a residential neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts that dates to colonial times.
Riverside
Neighborhood
Riverside, also known as "Area 7", is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts bounded by Massachusetts Avenue on the north, River Street on the east, the Charles River on the south, and JFK Street on the west.
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.
Harvard Square
- Categories: historic district, tourism, tourist attraction, and locality
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.37347° or 42° 22′ 25″ northLongitude
-71.11894° or 71° 7′ 8″ westOpen location code
87JC9VFJ+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 2448023622OpenStreetMap feature
place=squareOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q1587858
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Latin—“Harvard Square” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميدان هارفارد”
- Cebuano: “Harvard Square”
- Chinese: “哈佛广场”
- Chinese: “哈佛廣場”
- Dutch: “Harvard Square”
- French: “Harvard Sq”
- French: “Harvard Square”
- German: “Harvard Square”
- Hebrew: “כיכר הרווארד”
- Indonesian: “Lapangan Harvard”
- Japanese: “ハーバード・スクウェア”
- Japanese: “ハーバード・スクェア”
- Japanese: “ハーバード・スクエア”
- Latin: “Quadratum Harvardianum”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Harvard Square and Cambridge KiOSK.
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