60 Garden St., Cambridge, Massachusetts. County/parish: Middlesex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 26, 1987. NRIS 86002075.
Part of Cambridge MRA (NRIS 64000275).
1 contributing building.
The Sears Tower–Harvard Observatory is a historic astronomical observatory that is part of Harvard Observatory and is located at 60 Garden Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now just a portion of the observatory's Building A, the Sears Tower is the oldest portion of the complex, designed by Isaiah Rogers and constructed in 1843. This structure is a square brick building, with a projecting cornice and a Greek Revival entrance framed by pilasters. The dome was equipped with a 15-inch telescope, the state of the art at the time.
The tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791134