National Register Listing

Cambridge Common Historic District

a.k.a. See Also:Christ Church;Old Harvard Yard;Massachusetts Hall;H

Garden, Waterhouse, Cambridge, and Peabody Sts., and Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
Local significance of the district:
Landscape Architecture; Military; Politics/government; Architecture; Religion

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.