Franklin Street Park

Franklin Street Park is an urban neighborhood park in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The park is a house-sized lot in the Riverside neighborhood on 495 Franklin Street between Bay Street and Hancock Street.

Opening hours: sunrise—sunset
Type: Park
Description: Park in Cambridge, MA, USA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Harvard Art Museums and Clifton Merriman Post Office Building.

Harvard Art Museums

Museum

Photo: Daderot, Public domain.

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 2,500 feet northwest of Franklin Street Park.

Clifton Merriman Post Office Building

Post office

Photo: Daderot, Public domain.

The Clifton Merriman Post Office Building, also known as the U.S. Post Office-Central Square, is an historic post office at 770 Massachusetts Avenue within Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Clifton Merriman Post Office Building is situated 1,300 feet southeast of Franklin Street Park.

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 3,400 feet northwest of Franklin Street Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Riverside and Cambridge.

Riverside

Suburb

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.

Cambridge

Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0.

Cambridge is a city in Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Boston. It is renowned as the home of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both widely considered to be among the best universities in the world.

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…

Franklin Street Park

Categories: urban park and recreation area
Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.36774° or 42° 22′ 4″ north

Longitude

-71.11045° or 71° 6′ 38″ west

Open location code

87JC9V9Q+3R

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29838846

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

Wikidata ID

Q5491878

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