Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge, Massachusetts. County/parish: Middlesex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 05, 2005. NRIS 04001429.
Part of Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS (NRIS 64500822).
1 contributing site. 3 contributing structures.
Fresh Pond Parkway is a historic park and parkway on the western end of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. 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 (formerly Cambridge and Concord Turnpike) and Alewife Brook Parkway to the north. Much of the parkway acts as the eastern boundary for portions of the city's municipal Fresh Pond reservoir area and connects the reservoir to the Charles River Reservation.
The parkway is part of Massachusetts Route 2 (Route 2) and U.S. Route 3 (US 3) for its entire length. The portion north of Huron Avenue is also part of Route 16.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792002