Cambridge City Hall
CHS Image Collection - Buildings
Cambridge Historical Society
Other Sources
| Architecture | Genealogical | Preservation | Research |
- Architectural Education Resource Center
- Boston Society of Architects
- Center for Understanding the Built Environment
- Christopher Hail's Cambridge Buildings and Architects database
- Fine Homebuilding
- Journal of Light Construction
- Old House Journal
- Preservation Sourcebook/PreservationWeb
- Society of Architectural Historians Homepage
Brief Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947 - This Old House
- Traditional Building Magazine
- New England Historical and Genealogical Society
- Massachusetts Archives
- Cambridge City Clerk (for vital records queries)
- Mormon Church Records
- Ancestry.com (Commercial for profit site, has indexed manuscript census)
- Cambridge Cemetery 617-349-4890
- Catholic cemetery in North Cambridge 617-547-2324
- Mount Auburn Cemetery 617-547-7105
- Contact the Historical Commission for info on the Old Burying Ground
- Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
- American Canadian Genealogical Society
- Middlesex County, South: Registry of Deeds (617/679-6300) and Registry of Probate (617/768-5800)
- National Archives and Records Administration -- Boston Regional Office (for census records)
- Online genealogical resources such as USGenWeb Project: Middlesex County Massachusetts Genealogy and Rays Place: Explore New England's Past
- For Boston and its neighborhoods, try the Bostonian Society
- Cambridge African American Heritage Trail
- Cambridge Office for Tourism
- Cambridge Parks, Playgrounds & Reservations map
- Historias de Cambridge, Latino immigrant oral history project
- Historic New England
- Jewish Cambridgeif site is not working, try Jewish Immigrant Cambridge
- Longfellow National Historic Site
- Massachusetts Cultural Council
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Museum of African American History
- Community Preservation Initiative, Massachusetts Exec. Office of Environmental Affairs
- Historic New England (formerly the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities)
- Massachusetts Archives
online Massachusetts vital records database - Massachusetts Historical Commission Homepage
New: Massachusetts Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit
Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund - Massachusetts Historical Society
- Mass Moments, a daily almanac of Massachusetts history. A new project by the Mass Foundation for the Humanities.
- National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives
Historic Preservation Easements
Technical Preservation Services
Longfellow National Historic Site -- Friends of the Longfellow House
Links to the Past - Tools for Teaching
Teaching with Historic Places
Heritage News newsletter - National Trust for Historic Preservation Homepage
- Paige's History of Cambridge
- Partners for Sacred Places
- Preservation Action
- Preservation Directory
- PRESERVATION Mass (formerly Historic Massachusetts, Inc.)
PreservationMass Consultants Directory - PreserveNet
- Save Outdoor Sculpture!
- Somerville Old House Organization
- Trustees of Reservations
- Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
- American Canadian Genealogical Society
- Boston Athenaeum
- Boston Public Library
Leventhal Map Center:
1877 birdseye view
1879 birdseye view (East Cambridge) - Bostonian Society/Boston Historical Society & Museum
- Brief Biographies of American Architects, Who Died between 1897-1947
- "Commonwealth Communities," City of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Harvard Crimson online (searchable archives)
- Harvard Map Collection
1833 Wadworth plan
1854 Walling map
1873 Hopkins atlas
1885/88 Sanborn atlas
1886 Hopkins atlas
1894 Bromley atlas
1900 Sanborn atlas
1903 Bromley atlas
1916 Bromley atlas - Harvard/Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf
- Harvard Square Library With the full text of Rev. Abiel Holmes' History of Cambridge of 1801 and a history of the First Parish church in Harvard Square.
- Library of Congress
American Memory Collections
America's Story (kids' page) - Massachusetts Archives
- Massachusetts General Laws
- Middlesex South Registry of Deeds
- M.I.T. Archives & Special Collections: MIT History
- New England Historical and Genealogical Society
- National Archives and Records Administration -- Boston Regional Office
- Sibley's Private Journal is now online and searchable (journal of John Langdon Sibley, 1846-1882)
- USGenWeb Project: Middlesex County Massachusetts Genealogy
- Wardmaps.com
1930 Bromley atlas