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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge town, 1750-1846. (search)
al and also, under the new plan, judge of the admiralty. With the exception that a few panes of glass were destroyed, nothing came of this gathering of the people. The next day, however, several thousands of the inhabitants of that part of Middlesex County gathered around the court-house in that portion of the Common now called Harvard Square. To them Judge Danforth and Judge Lee each made an address, stating their determination not to serve upon the new Council Board, and in confirmation of tr portion of the property at Lechmere Point was absorbed by a company incorporated in 1810, as the Lechmere Point Corporation. At first sales of lots were sluggish, but a fair start was made in 1813, when the corporation agreed to convey to Middlesex County enough land for the county buildings, and to erect a court-house and a jail, satisfactory to the court, at an expense not to exceed $24,000. As may be conceived, this scheme was not carried out without opposition from the residents in the ol
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Real-estate interests of Cambridge. (search)
eet its entire length,—will stimulate improvements in the business accommodations of this locality. In no part of the city has more ample and excellent provision for existing needs of the mercantile interests been made than in North Cambridge above Porter's Station, where the Henderson, Odd Fellows, and other fine blocks have lately been built. On Cambridge Street considerable improvement has taken place in the store properties within the past few years, and the large purchases of Middlesex County for a new Registry of Deeds building, together with the improvement of Binney fields for park purposes, render the street much more attractive, and increase the value of property on it. The extensive area filled by the East Cambridge Land Company, which is made more accessible by the extension of First Street, has tempted many large manufactories to that region, and there is still abundant room for many more. This territory is scarcely a mile from the northern depots of Boston, and
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
oms of the Lechmere Bank. At that time the estate on Cambridge Street formerly occupied by Dr. Anson Hooker was purchased, and a banking-room fitted up on the lower floor. Here the bank continued until the taking of the land by the county of Middlesex in 1895 compelled a removal. Land on the south side of Cambridge Street, midway between Third and Fourth streets (numbered at present 292), was purchased, and a building erected for the exclusive use of the bank. It is a one-story structure oature of fine cabinet work, and have completed order work from special designs for many public buildings, among which are the City Hall, Fall River; State House Extension, Boston; City Hall, Cambridge; Norfolk County Court House, Dedham; and Middlesex County buildings, East Cambridge; a number of banks, offices, libraries, and armories. The present firm of Keeler & Co. is composed of Alvin F. Sortwell, of this city, special partner, and Ruel P. Buzzell, general partner. W. C. H. Badger &