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The Newetowne Chronicle

A publication of the Cambridge Historical Society

IN THIS ISSUE P E O P L E A N D P L A C E S

Winter 2007 Volume VII, Number 1 A Kids-Eye View of Huron Village ______By Michael Kenney P E O P L E A N D P L A C E S Kids-Eye View of Huron Village The 1903 Cambridge atlas shows just 9 residences––and not a single commercial cover story establishment––along Huron Avenue between Lakeview and Fayerweather streets. The remaining frontage in that area, now the thriving commercial district F R O M T H E P R E S I D E N T Your Council at Work known as Huron Village, appears as empty house lots. page 2 But fast-forward just a dozen years to the 1916 atlas, and 19 residences appear, F R O M T H E D I R E C T O R Think Spring and Summer along with 4 commercial structures––with just one empty lot remaining. And page 3 with houses having filled in the lots along the side streets––Standish, Chilton, and Gurney––as well as up toward La rch Road and down toward Reservoir S O C I E T Y N E W S Street, the “critical mass” needed for commercial establishments had arrived al- Annual meeting reports page 4 most before shrubs had been planted and front yards seeded.

K E Y N O T E A D D R E S S The Cambridge Historical Society, two years in the future when the 1903 atlas The Dana Family was compiled, will celebrate the history of Huron Avenue and its neighborhoods Page 7 at its annual spring benefit, which will be held on May 6 at the former Faye r-

R E C E N T P R O G R A M S weather Street School, now the home of the Lander family (see page 3 for de- Preserving Your Family History tails). The Cambridge Railroad page 7 An item in the Society’s archives––a report prepared in 1984 by students at the

F R O M T H E L I B R A R Y & Fayerweather Street School––as well as city atlases, help to trace the area’s de- A R C H I V E velopment. The catalyst was the opening of a trolley line in 1894––a line that Mark Time page 8 (continued on page 6)

C A L E N D A R O F E V E N T S page 9 ______

Photographs by Lewis Bushnell unless otherwise credited.

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The Hooper-Lee-Nichols House Cambridge Historical Commission 159 Brattle Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Phone: 617-547-4252

Web site: www.cambridgehistory.org E-mail: [email protected] Huron Avenue near Chilton Street in the late 1930s, looking east

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OFFICERS Theodore L. Hansen F R O M T H E P R E S I D E N T completion. At the Annual Meeting, President Kathy Born presented Daphne with a Katheen Born Your Council at Work Certificate of Appreciation in recogni- Vice President tion of her hard work and dedication as Chandra Harrington In 2006 your council––a slightly old- Vice President editor of CHS publications. fashioned name for the Society’s board Maxwell D. Solet of directors––began a process of strate- Vice President Eliot Klein served as a councilor for Andrew Leighton gic planning, following the completion three years and has been instrumental in Treasurer in 2005 of our first 100 years. Council- attracting business sponsorships for the Thomas Bracken ors considered such basic organizational Secretary Society. Sue Poverman, who also served questions as: What is our particular Lindsay Leard Coolidge a three-year term, has been active in niche in collecting and preserving Cam- Curator planning our Spring Benefits. Both Sue Michael Kenney bridge history? What are we trying to and Eliot will continue to serve on the Editor accomplish? At a retreat last March at- Development Committee. tended by councilors, advisors, and COUNCILORS Ted Hansen staff, we all took a hard look at the pre- Charlie Allen Darleen Bonislawski sent operations of the Society, its suc- Robert G. Crocker cesses and its challenges. At subsequent Heli Meltsner monthly meetings, the Council exam- Paula Paris Mary Webb ined how the Society can work with the New Council members Cambridge Historical Commission and ADVISORS the Cambridge Public Library. (Please Darleen Bonislawski Daphne Abeel see my column in the Fall 2006 Newe- Born in Cambridge, Darleen has a pri- M. Wyllis Bibbins towne Chronicle for more details on the Carol Cerf vate law practice in Cambridge and has Luise M. Erdmann strategic planning process.) been a community activist since the late Karen F. Falb 1960s. She chairs the Cambridge Ele c- George H. Hanford One sign of a healthy and forward- tion Commission. Swanee Hunt looking nonprofit organization is the D. Eliot Klein leadership role the councilors play in Dennis C. Marnon Michael Kenney Ellen G. Moot setting an example for fundraising ef- A retired reporter for the Boston Globe, Larry Nathanson, M.D. forts. Here I am pleased to report that in Michael is a book reviewer and free- Brian Pfeiffer the Annual Appeal, contributions made lance writer on local and regional sub- Susan S. Poverman by the council and advisors not only ac- jects. Charles M. Sullivan counted for a significant portion of the STAFF total, but each councilor responded gen- Heli Meltsner Karen L. Davis erously to a challenge grant issued by A preservation consultant, Heli is cur- Executive Director one of the councilors. Add to that the rently researching and writing a book on Lewis Bushnell contributions of our members and other Associate Director the surviving poorhouses of Massachu- Sally Purrington Hild supporters, and we raised over $36,000, setts. She is on the Avon Hill Neighbor- Program Director twice the amount we raised in 2005. hood Conservation District Commission, Victoria Hickey as well as the board of the Cambridge Assistant I would like to recognize and thank Center for Adult Education. Mark J. Vassar three councilors who completed their Resident Archivist Shane LeGault terms at the 2006 Annual Meeting. For- Resident Fellow tunately, all three will remain active as advisors and committee members. The Newetowne Chronicle is Daphne Abeel served six years as the published three times annually Society’s editor. The triennial public a- by the Cambridge Historical Society. tion of this newsletter and the Society’s forthcoming book on Cambridge in the 20th century are her legacy. She will continue as editor of the book until its

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F R O M T H E D I R E C T O R Think Spring and Summer Our annual Spring Benefit is an essential source of operating income for the Society.

This year’s budget asks us to raise $25,000 On Sunday, May 6, the Society will celebrate from businesses, institutions, and our mem- the history of the Huron Avenue neighborhood bers. It is an ambitious goal, but with your sup- at its annual Spring Benefit. The Lander family port we can do it. has generously donated their extraordinary

home, secluded in the heart of Huron Village, This summer we are planning a fun educational as the site. This location, together with the program for children and families funded by a charming and well-documented report done by grant from the Massachusetts Society of the students at the Fayerweather Street School (see Cincinnati. The program––called a Tory Row cover story), inspired us to explore the history Quest––is being developed by educational con- of the Huron Avenue area, which is a quintes- sultant Janet McNeil. The self-guided history sential streetcar suburb. treasure hunt will involve searching for a vari-

ety of clues that will illuminate the important The afte r- role of people and places in Cambridge during noon will in- the American Revolution. clude tours of Karen L. Davis the house, which was converted And the answer is…. from the © Peter Vanderwarker The photograph on the back cover appears to be the intersection of Huron and Concord avenues in the Fayerweather 1920s. Please contact CHS if you have pictures of Street School the Huron Avenue area that you would like to donate into a stun- or allow us to scan for our archives. ning contem- porary resi- dence by Cambridge A thank-you to our skilled volunteers architect Maryann Thompson, a silent auction of items donated by local merchants, a chance Chip Allen, a help desk system administrator at the Radius Specialty Hospital (read IT exp ert), regularly to record your memories of living, working, rescues us from vexing computer problems. playing, or shopping in the area, a hearty re- Annie Brown, a history teacher, is developing a local ception donated by your favorite neighborhood history curriculum, “Cambridge Firsts,” which will shops and restaurants, opportunities to wander be posted on our website for teachers to download in the spectacular garden designed by the Cam- and use in their classrooms. bridge landscape architect Michael Van Val- Luise Erdmann edits this newsletter and all our mail- kenburgh—and, of course, some fascinating ings. history. Martin Evans, a retired professor of organizational behavior, is working on databases that we will use to increase our vis ibility in the business community. Charles Sullivan, the executive director of the Annette LaMond and her group of volunteers from Cambridge Historical Commission, will de- the Cambridge Plant and Garden Club take great care scribe the evolution of the neighborhood from of the HLN house grounds. Brattle Street's undeveloped “backyard” to the Chris Lenney, a librarian at Harvard’s Lamont Li- residential and commercial buildings that line brary, creates finding aids in our archives. the charming streets today, and Heli Meltsner, Jerry Miller, former director of the Competitive Intel- ligence Center at Simmons College, is working with an architectural historian and preservation con- us on strategic planning and institutional advance- sultant, will present the architectural and social ment. history of the Fayerweather Street School building and site.

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A N N U A L M E E T I N G Charlie Allen The 102nd Annual Meeting In 2006, we completed work on the roof, ba l- On January 28, 2007, Kathleen Born presided, ustrade and rear chimney of the Hooper-Lee- filling in for Ted Hansen, and welcomed mem- Nichols House. (See Winter 2006 Newetowne bers and guests to the annual meeting at the Chronicle.) During the summer our central air Hooper-Lee-Nichols House. Born recognized conditioning system failed, and we had to in- several members and especially city counc ilors stall a new one. Most significant, however, the Craig Kelly and Henrietta Davis. The Society failure of several transacted its regular business, including the light fixtures re- approval of the minutes of the previous annual vealed danger- meeting and the election of officers, council- ous wiring con- ors, and advisors (see sidebar on page 2). ditions. A re- view of our ele c- trical system re- Finance Committee Report sulted in a report that described Andrew Leighton, Treasurer items needing attention and A great deal was accomplished in 2006 with made recom- respect to our efforts to preserve and maintain mendations for the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House and our colle c- updating and tions. Expenses in these areas totaled almost safeguarding the $100,000. While that did not fulfill all our This sconce is one of many fixtures electrical infra- needs, it represents a good start. The greatest that needs rewiring. They were structure. portion of the expense was funded in three installed by the preservation archi- ways. First, $50,000 came from the City of tect Joseph Everett Chandler in Armed with this 1916. Cambridge through a Community Preservation report, we ap- Act grant. Second, the $25,000 matching dol- plied for and lars required by the CPA grant came from our were awarded a second Instit utional Preserva- centennial fundraiser in 2005, and third, $4,000 tion Grant by the City to undertake a major up- (for collections) was a grant from the Massa- dating of our electrical system. The grant, chusetts Society of the Cincinnati. Because which is administered by the Cambridge His- 30,000 of those dollars were raised and re- torical Commission, uses Community Preser- flected in the 2005 earnings, the Society shows vation Act funds. We are fortunate in Cam- a deficit in its operations for 2006 of about bridge to have the support of a strong, able his- $25,000. torical commission.

The performance of our investment advisor, As with the previous grant for the roof, the the Cambridge Trust Company, and a rising grant for the electrical work requires matching stock market combined to provide a total return funds from the Society. At next year’s annual on our investments that was adequate to meet meeting, I hope to be able to report on all the our investment income budget and provide an work that will have been done to safeguard our additional amount that was able to not only treasures and the house from the very real make up the operating deficit but, in addition, threat of an electrical fire. It is my privilege to provide us with an increase in total earnings of be leading the facilities committee and super- over $10,000. Our total investment portfolio vising the construction work when such impor- increased from $595,000 to almost $608,000. tant improvements to the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House are taking place. Collections Committee Facility Report

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Lindsay Leard Coolidge, Curator Daphne Abeel, Editor

In 2006, Mark Vassar continued his superb The year 2006 saw The Newetowne Chronicle work of organizing, cataloguing, and creating continue to thrive, with articles about people finding aids for the archival collections. The and places that are part of the fabric of the his- conservation of the Mercy Scollay and Win- tory of Cambridge. My most exciting news, wood Serjeant letters was completed (see page however, concerns the Society’s book, A City's 8). We covered a section of a bookcase in the Life and Times: Cambridge in the 20th Cen- Chandler Room with glass to increase our dis- tury. The CHS received the final manuscript play space, and we have begun a series of from the copy editor the week before Christ- small installations featuring postcards from our mas. On January 11, Karen Davis, Lewis collection. Bushnell, and I met with book designer Linda Gifts were so numerous last year that I am un- Wade and printer Beau Wing to discuss the technical operations necessary to produce the book. It is now in the hands of the designer, and proofreading and preparation of an index will soon follow. We hope that the book will be completed this fall, and it should be appar- ent by the summer whether that will, indeed, be possible. Whenever the project does reach its final form as a book, it will stand as a valu- able and evocative tribute to the past hundred years—which are receding ever more quickly as the pace of change accelerates in the still- new century. This image showing Memorial Drive near M.I.T. is in our postcard exhibition displaying views of the Charles River. I want to thank all the contributors and the CHS staff and councilors who have supported able to include all of them in this report. The the book project, and in particular, I’d like to major donations––the Gutheim Collection, the recognize the Cambridge Savings Bank for un- Henderson portraits, and New England Glass derwriting the production costs. While I will Company objects were described in the Newe- continue to serve as editor of the book until it towne Chronicle during the past year. is completed, I am pleased to be leaving the council position of editor in the able hands of After Ferrante-Dege closed last fall, we re- Michael Kenney. ceived the company’s archival materials. Mark ______Vassar discovered the wonders of eBay for the Society and purchased a glass paperweight with an image of the Washington Elm to add to our growing paperweight collection. Personal papers were also given, including those of Ce- cila Lyons and Harry Martin, the latter a Cam- bridge firefighter. Charles Sullivan donated a Frost family letter. The Cambridge Historical Commission gave the Society nine city directo- ries, the earliest from 1847. Thank you to all of our members and friends for these wonderful gifts. Many thanks to Paul Parisi of Acme Bookbinding, who subsidized the printing and binding of 28 Cambridge city directories, and to the Cambridge Publications Committee Report Historical Commission for providing us with the disks. Visit Acme online at www.acmebook.com.

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and their workers, they even worked for a day Huron Village or two behind the counters. Other students in- (continued from page 1) terviewed residents, while still others re-

had originally been proposed for Brattle Street searched the ownership and history of the com- but that was blocked by its residents. Ironi- mercial buildings. From an interview with cally, the Huron Avenue house lots were, in then-longtime resident Edward McCabe, the many cases, formed from the back land of students learned that the first commercial en- Brattle Street estates. The effect of the trolley terprise on the street was a neighborhood con- line was to open Huron Avenue as a residential venience store built as an addition to the front neighborhood similar to those in Boston de- of the house at 385 Huron Avenue and now scribed by Sam Bass Warner, Jr. in his classic remembered as “the candy store.” It first shows book, Streetcar Suburbs. up in the 1916 atlas and is today an office of Brattle Associates Real Estate. It was a teacher with an interest in commercial archaeology and geography, Peter Richards, The report appeared as “A Close-Up of Huron who set the 4th-, 5th-, and 6th-grade students Ave.,” complete with maps and diagrams––and to exploring Huron Village in 1984. What they with drawings of the storefronts. The student found was a somewhat more service-oriented reporters were remarkably candid. Emma’s commercial district than exists today, with a Pizza was rated highly for its pizza, but the barber shop, a drugstore, a Laundromat, and a shop was boycotted by the students because gas station. But there are still today a dry Emma “has been rude to us.” Emma, their cleaners, a beauty salon, and a bank, along teacher noted, “thought the kids should have with three restaurants. And there are also, as been in school.” before, a half- dozen galleries And the report on and studios of one Coolidge Cleaners kind or another, as suggested that “it well as the dance needs painting,” studio, now a and on Have a branch of the Heart gallery, noted Cambridge Center that it “has never for Adult Educa- been robbed” and tion. This sketch by nine-year-old Joe Gittleman is one of two dozen drawings that “hasn’t had a fire were part of a 1984 research project, “A Close-up of Huron Ave.” in the store yet.” Some of the shops The report on the students found are still there, among them Louie’s Barber Shop noted that its owner, the the Bryn Mawr Book Store, the children’s Louis Maccagno, had died while the students’ store Henry Bear’s Park, and the Fresh Pond project was underway. “We had to deal with Market, the anchor store of the district, now that for the kids,” Richards said. “It was a managed by Mark Najarian, a grandson of the teachable moment.” store’s founder. And Pirjo, a women’s clothing store noted in the students’ survey, has been Through Richards, who has studied and written reborn, in a fashion, in J. Miles, for Judy Miles on such aspects of commercial geography as used to work at Pirjo. And the Finnish presence roadside diners, the students’ report came to of Pirjo herself has recently resurfaced with the attention of Harvard’s Graduate School of Miles’s opening of a Marimekko store. Design. “They picked it up,” he said, “and I brought five or six of the kids over and they A number of the Fayerweather School students gave a talk about the project to design school were assigned to visit the shops, said Richards, students.” in a telephone interview from Atlanta where he now teaches at a private elementary school. The CHS is grateful to Harriet Provine for donating a copy of “A Close-up of Huron Ave.” to our archives. Not only did they interview the shop owners

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Annual Meeting Keynote Address copy of her thesis to the Society, where it will be available to researchers. An informative—and highly entertaining—talk on the history of the Dana family in Cambridge The Society thanks Taza Chocolates and our mem- was presented at the annual meeting by Rosa- bers for donating refreshments. mond W. Dana, a direct descendant. ______

The first Cambridge Dana Recent Programs was Richard Dana, who emigrated from Manches- ter, England, in 1640. His Preserving Your Family History descendants, Ms. Dana In October, CHS archivist noted, remained in Cam- Mark Vassar explained ba- bridge for over 300 years, sic archival techniques to “amassing and losing use at home. Attendees wealth, influence, and were amazed by the effects fame.” And also, she re- that common storage prac- tices have on colle ction Rosamond Dana marked, “scandal.” While not necessarily scandalous, items, and many exclaimed Ms. Dana noted, “a lot of the Dana women that they had much work to married much younger men.” Most of the Dana do on their possessions. As men went to Harvard and many became la w- an alternative, Mark en- Mark Vassar yers, but some of them “had trouble” there, couraged his audience to taking part in such undergraduate frolics as consider donating photos and papers with “the rotten cabbage rebellion.” Cambridge associations to the CHS.

The first Richard Henry Dana, “Poet Dana,” was once called “the best poet in America,” but The Cambridge Railroad Ms. Dana begged to differ. His son was Ric h- It started when Gardiner ard Henry Dana Jr., “Mast Dana,” author of Greene Hubbard decided Two Years Before the Mast. “This man mat- he needed to improve his tered,” Ms. Dana said. But she noted that he commute between his considered his life to have been “a failure, my house on Brattle Street and great success a boy’s book.” His son, Richard his office in Boston. So Henry Dana III, was the founding president of said historian Charlie the Cambridge Historical Society. Bahne as he traced the his- tory of public transporta- Later, there were the family “Reds,” Edmund Charles Bahne tion in Cambridge. By who visited the Soviet Union “a number of April of 1856, the city’s times,” and Harry, who when he was arrested first streetcar line was up and running between on a morals charge, was defended by Ms. Boston and Mount Auburn Cemetery on a Dana’s father. Ms. Dana drew on the archives route that passed right by Hubbard’s house. at Harvard and at the Longfellow House for her Holding about 50 passengers––24 seated––the 1991 master’s thesis, “Privile ged Radicals,” streetcars were pulled by two horses. This was which focuses on the children of RHD III, who quite an improvement over coaches and omni- were the grandchildren of both Henry buses, which seated fewer riders and required Wadsworth Longfellow and “Mast Dana.” She more horses. Eventually, the Cambridge Rail- described her thesis as “a look at how the road’s horse cars were replaced by electric trol- burden of the Dana families’ heritage leys, the subway, and buses, operated today by influenced their lives.” She has presented a the MBTA.

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F R O M T H E L I B R A R Y & A R C H I V E their seats on the Mandamus Council. (Historian Samuel Batchelder has speculated Mark Time that Serjeant may have also been driven from by Mark Vassar Cambridge at this time.)

One of our collections, recently conserved Serjeant recorded in one of his letters (not pre- through the generosity of the Massachusetts served here) that he had “lost not less than Society for the Cincinnati, contains the letters £300 in household furniture and books de- of Winwood Serjeant and his wife, Mary. The stroyed and pillaged.” Serjeant and his family twelve letters, which are written to Mary’s sis- sought refuge in Kingston, N.H., where he ter Elizabeth Browne Rogers, document the hoped to find “a peaceful retirement among experience of Cambridge loyalists during and rural peasants,” but when anti-Tory feeling after the Revolution. They contain family and reached the countryside, he moved to New- domestic news, Cambridge gossip, references buryport. Stricken with paralysis in 1777, he to current events (particularly the coming returned to Bristol, England, in 1778 and died Revolution), and offer spiritual comfort and at Bath on September 3, 1780. worldly advice. The following is an adaptation

of the biographical sketch of Winwood Ser-

jeant written by our volunteer Chris Lenney,

who prepared the finding aid for the collection. Recommended reading

Winwood Serjeant (ca.1730?–1780) was born The Window Shop: Safe Harbor for Refugees in Bristol, England, and ordained by the bishop 1939–1972. Founded by of Rochester in 1756. He was sent in 1759 to Cambridge residents, the South Carolina as an Anglican missionary by bakery and gift shop pro- the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel vided jobs and fellowship in Foreign Parts (S.P.G.). In June 1767, Ser- for hundreds of Ge rman and Austrian immigrants. jeant assumed the pulpit at Christ Church in From 1947 until its clos- Cambridge as its third rector. He first resided ing, it was located at 56 at 7 Waterhouse Street and then in a house near Brattle Street. The book is the corner of Bond and Garden streets built for available at the Harvard him by Henry Vassall, a prominent parishioner Bookstore and the Coop. and one of the church’s founders. When Se r- jeant arrived in 1767, the parish had been with- Sightseeking: Clues to the Landscape History out a settled minister for two years and was of New England still recovering from the scandalous departure In this historical and cul- of its second rector, Samuel Griffith, another tural examination of how S.P.G missionary. our built New England environment came to be, Serjeant was a loyalist by nature and, by virtue Chris Lenney, a CHS of his social and religious position, a sworn up- archives volunteer, chal- holder of the Crown. Anti-Tory sentiment lenges us to alter the way we experience and inter- came to a head in the summer of 1774, when pret the New England virtually everyone in the Christ Church congre- landscape. Email Len- gation fled from Cambridge for their safety— [email protected]. some to British-occupied Boston, others to Newburyport or Nova Scotia. In early Septem- . ber 1774, riotous crowds compelled Thomas Oliver, who lived at 33 Elmwood Avenue, and Judge Joseph Lee, who lived in the Hooper- Lee-Nichols House, among others, to resign

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Save the Date! Calendar of Events Sunday, May 6 On the Avenue, Huron Avenue Wednesday, April 4 Time: 2:00–4:00 p.m. Dana Fellow Event* Place: 74 R Fayerweather Street, Cambridge Place: 175 Brattle Street Come to our Spring Benefit to celebrate the (Ruggles-Fayerweather House) history of Huron Avenue, its neighborhoods, Time: 6:00 p.m. and its businesses (see page 3 for details). A rare opportunity to see the interior of one of Cambridge’s famed collection of “Tory Man- sions.” Architectural historian Susan Maycock will speak on the history and significance of this 1764 house as it evolved from a high-style Georgian residence owned by loyalists, to an army encampment and hospital for injured pa- triots, to a private boys’ school at which James Russell Lowell, Richard Henry Dana, and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson stud- ied. *By invitation only. (Dana Fellows con- 340 Huron Avenue in the late 1930s tribute $100 or more annually to the CHS.)

Ongoing Saturday, April 21, from 10:00 a.m. to noon Tours of the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House Tuesday, April 24, and Thursday, April 26, Tuesday and Thursday at 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. $5; free for CHS members. Call to arrange a Innovations and Innovators: Special Tours of group tour. the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House Place: 159 Brattle Street The CHS will participate in the first annual Sunday, March 25 Cambridge Science Festival by offering guided Longfellow tours of the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House that Bicentennial Gala will feature scientific innovations that were de- Time: 2:00 p.m. veloped right here in Cambridge. Place: Sanders Theatre, Harvard University.

Visitors will have an op- Celebrate the bicentennial portunity to view hig h- birthday of one of America’s lights of the Society’s original superstars, Henry collections, including Wadsworth Longfellow, with Elias Howe’s sewing music, poetry, and more. machine, Sterling Eliot’s This two-hour gala, spon- addressing machine, sored by the Longfellow Bi- Sewing machine patented centennial Committee and others, celebrates all in 1846 by Elias Howe Jr. Edwin Land’s Polaroid- cameras, and the house that is Longfellow in the same place that his cen- itself. tennial tribute was held by the Cambridge His- torical Society in 1907. The CHS will present a The tours are designed for both adults and chil- Longfellow Medal to the Longfellow National dren in grades 4–12, with a maximum of 15 Historic Site. people per group. For more information about the Cambridge Science Festival, visit For more information about the gala, visit www.cambridgesciencefestival.org. www.longfellow200.org. Call or e-mail the CHS to sign up for a tour.

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Festive Holiday Party

Over 125 members and friends attended our Annual Holiday Party in December.

Special thanks go to the many CHS members who contributed food, bever- ages, and poinsettias and to the follow- ing caterers for their donations: A. J. Culinary, The Basil Tree, Catering by Debby, Cuisine Chez Vous, East Meets West, Global Gourmet, Riley to the Res- cue, and Tables of Content.

Many thanks also to Ruth Crocker and Beth Meyer for decorating the house and to Carolyn Woznick for her hand- made ornaments for our tree.

Special appreciation goes to the Movadi Woodwind Quintet for their excellent performance of holiday music. We thank you for a warm and wonderful beginning to the holiday season.

Membership Application

Please check a category To learn about benefits for specific categories, please call the CHS office at 617/547-4252. Name______

INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES Street address______$35 Single $60 Family ______$100 Dana Fellow (Single) City, State, and Zip code $150 Dana Fellow (Dual) $250 Sponsor Telephone______$500 Patron $1,000 Benefactor E-mail address______

CORPORATE CATEGORIES $100 Corporate Fellow $250 Corporate Sponsor An additional donation of ______is enclosed to help CHS preserve and maintain $500 Corporate Patron the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House. $1,000 Corporate Benefactor I do not wish to join at this time; however, enclosed is my contribution of $______. Make checks payable to the Cambridge Historical Society and mail to 159 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02138.

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We gratefully acknowledge the following businesses, foundations and individuals for their generous support of our 2006 Annual Fund

$1000 and above Karen Davis & Dennis C. Marnon Judith King David & Sharman Altshuler Lewis Bushnell Gerald M. McCue Karl H. Klaussen Architectural Heritage Richard S. Doring (matched) Genevieve McMillan Rick & Nancy Lamb Foundation Richard C. Gilman Fred & Maria Meyer Kenneth Leard Thomas & Judy Bracken Natalie Haar Regina Mullen Laurence Lesser & Lindsay & Charles Coolidge Anna S. Jeffrey Paula Paris & Leah Jackson Masuko Ushioda Luise M. Erdmann Karen Lewis Nick & Anne Patterson Olive & John Malcolm Karen & Peter Falb in memory Massachusetts Institute Brian R. Pfeiffer Margaret Cecil McMahon of Gladys Hall Forslund of Technology Jim Righter Charlotte B. Moore Ted & Sally Hansen Carl Nordblum, Barbara Rimbach Eva S. Moseley Elizabeth & Jack Meyer CRN Auctioneers Edgar & Mary Schein Jean & David Nathan Charles M. Sullivan Clare & Geoffrey Nunes Rachel Solem Emilie Norris Donald J. Tripp, Mary Ann Parker $500–$999 Dudley & Borland, Scott & Kristin Paton Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. $100–$149 Ellis & Andrews Insurance John Petrowsky & Tom Vise Lois Stiles Edgerly Susan Adams & Stuart Taylor Henry K. Vandermark Louise A. Pfeiffer Richard & Priscilla Hunt Adelaide Aitken Julie & E.A. Vargas Stephen D. Pratt Andrew & Phebe Leighton Carl Barron Bradford & Frances Wetherell Charles Ritz Larry & Anna Nathanson Charles & Virginia Batchelder Patricia H. Roberts Susan Poverman Jeffrey Berman & Up to $99 Sheila T. Russell Maxwell & Jo Solet Beth Luchner Anonymous Edward & Mary Samp Charlotte & Herbert Wagner Darleen & Michael Robert H. Ackerman Carole Schildhauer Mr. & Mrs. Bracebridge H. Bonislawski Birge Albright Joanna & Hal Scott Young Janet L. Burns Peter Ambler & Lindsay Amy & Gary Seligson Lee Campbell, Jr. Miller Marion Severynse & $250–$499 Dayl A. Cohen Julia Bagalay Larry Philbrick Anonymous John & Sylvia Constable Charles Bahne & Carmeline Shapiro Daphne Abeel Richard & Barbara Currier Virginia McVarish Jacqueline Smith Charlie Allen John DiGiovanni, Brad Barber Adam & Phyllis Sonnenschein Lindsay & Blake Allison Trinity Property Management Chester S. Beattie Stephen & Eileen Surette Kathleen & John Born Gladys P. Gifford Carole K. Bellew Nancy & James Townsend Ken & Marcia Bushnell Suzanne Revaleon Green Stephanie Berk & Barbara J. Trant, in memory Ruth F. Hamlen Mary Harvey & Oliver Charles Welch of Francis X. Trant George Hanford Fowlkes, in memory Marian R. Carlson William & Miriam Truslow Chandra D. Harrington of Ruth Godshall John & Ann Cobb Michael L. Tushman Sigmund & Elizabeth Thomas Horrocks Howard W. Crowell Paul C. Vermouth, Jr. Herzstein Mary Lee Ingbar Francis & Barbara Elisabeth F. Wahlen, in mem- Jerrold & Sue Hickey Virginia & Eric Jacobsen de Marneffe ory of Mary Conlin Marilee B. Meyer Linda Kaboolian & Harold Aurore & Scott Eaton Raymond & Joan Walther John & Ellen Moot Nahigian Mason & Helen Fernald Katherine N. Winslow Gail Roberts William & Julia Kaufmann John & Elizabeth Gilmore Nancy B. Woods Howard & Fredericka Michael Kenney Rolf & Julie Goetze Dorothy S. Zinberg Stevenson Janet Kinasewich Eleanor M. Hackett Cornelia P. Zinsser Mary Webb & William & Sheila King Max R. Hall Sean MacDonald D. Eliot Klein Easley W. Hamner Special thanks to Tod Beaty and the brokers at Warren & Jean Little, in Sabina H. Harris Hammond Real Estate for $150–$249 memory of Bertram K. and Bennet & Jo-Edith Heffron, giving 41 memberships to James & Maureen Baker Nina Fletcher Little E.L.I., Inc new homeowners. Levin & Eleanor Campbell Henry & Carol Lukas Sally Purrington Hild Bob & Ruth Crocker Robert & Christina Mann Flora Bond Hollinger

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