Shady Hill Square

Shady Hill Square is a park in City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Shady Hill Square is situated nearby to the building Francis J. Child House, as well as near the public building Academy of Arts and Sciences Headquarters.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Academy of Arts and Sciences Headquarters.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Museum

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The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with particular focus on the ethnography and archaeology of the Americas. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is situated 1,700 feet west of Shady Hill Square.

Academy of Arts and Sciences Headquarters

Public building

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Academy of Arts and Sciences Headquarters is a public building, which is situated 620 feet northwest of Shady Hill Square.

Harvard Art Museums

Museum

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The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and four research centers: the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, the Harvard Art Museums Archives, and the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. Harvard Art Museums is situated 2,400 feet southwest of Shady Hill Square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Baldwin and Mid-Cambridge.

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.

Mid-Cambridge

Suburb

Mid-Cambridge, also known as "Area 6", is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is bounded by Massachusetts Avenue on the south and west, Prospect Street on the east, and Hampshire Street, the Somerville border, Kirkland Street, Quincy Street, and Cambridge Street on the north.

Inman Square

Neighborhood

Photo: Tim Pierce, CC BY 3.0.

Inman Square is a neighborhood and historic district in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It lies north of Central Square, at the junction of Cambridge, Hampshire, and Inman Streets near the Cambridge–Somerville border.

Shady Hill Square

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.37943° or 42° 22′ 46″ north

Longitude

-71.10883° or 71° 6′ 32″ west

Open location code

87JC9VHR+QF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29836435

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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Highlights include Francis J. Child House and Palmacci Playground.

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