Fresh Pond Parkway
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Fresh Pond Parkway-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
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Fresh Pond Parkway, northbound
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| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Built | 1899 |
| Architect | Eliot, Charles; Olmstead Brothers |
| Architectural style | No Style Listed |
| MPS | Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS |
| NRHP Reference # | 04001429 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 5, 2005 |
Fresh Pond Parkway is an historic park and parkway, found in the westernmost neighborhoods of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The parkway was built in 1899 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
Fresh Pond Parkway is a four lane road (two lanes in each direction) stretching from Mount Auburn Street on its southern end to a rotary at Concord Avenue and Alewife Brook Parkway to the north. Much of the parkway acts as eastern boundary for portions of the city's municipal Fresh Pond reservoir area and also serves to connect the reservoir to the Charles River Reservation.
The parkway is part of Massachusetts Route 2 and United States Route 3 for its entire length. The portion north of Huron Avenue is also part of Massachusetts Route 16.
In media
In February 2010, CBS-television affiliate WBZ questioned whether the remaining 118 rotaries such as the ones featured at Fresh Pond Parkway and Alewife Brook Parkway should be scrapped across Massachusetts.[2]
See also
References
Gallery
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Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge, MA 01.jpg
Adjacent to Fresh Pond treatment plant (Northbound)
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Between Brattle Street and Huron Ave. (Northbound)
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Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge, MA 03.jpg
Between Brattle Street and Huron Ave. (Southbound)
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Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge, MA 04.jpg
Between Brattle Street and Huron Ave. (Southbound)
External links
- Fresh Pond Parkway - Cambridge Massachusetts Before and after photos (PDF)
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