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.Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Porter station and Lovell Block.
Porter station
Railway 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.
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.
Harvard College Observatory
Observatory
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The Harvard College Observatory is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Harvard University Department of Astronomy. Harvard College Observatory is situated 3,400 feet southwest of Porter Square.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Avon Hill Historic District and Spring Hill.
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.
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: Square
- Description: square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Categories: neighborhood, pedestrian zone, and locality
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.38823° or 42° 23′ 18″ northLongitude
-71.11912° or 71° 7′ 9″ westOpen location code
87JC9VQJ+79OpenStreetMap ID
way 1499793000OpenStreetMap feature
highway=pedestrianOpenStreetMap feature
place=squareWikidata ID
Q7231656
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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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