MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES D.A.R., Hannah Winthrop Chapter. An Historic Guide to Cambridge. Cambridge, 1907, 84-89. Lille, Rupert Ballou. "Gardens and Homes of the Loyalists." Cambridge Historical Society,Proceedings, 26 (1940), 56. Paige, Lucius R. History of Cambridge, Mass.,1630-1877, with a Genealogical Register. Boston, 1877,168n.,169, 170,421,500. Rettig, 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Robert Bell. Guide te Camb: Architecture. Camb.,1969,_ CI.
LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES CORNER LATITUDE LONGITUDE R LATITUDE LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds NW NE 42 22' 25" 71° 22" SE " SW APPROXIMA TE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 0.2 ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE: CODE COUNTY CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE 11. FORM PREPARED BY NAME AND TITLE: ORGANIZATION STREET AND NUMBER: 57 Inman Street CITY OR TOWN: Amy E.
Cohn, Secretary (Anne Wardwell, Survey Director, MHC) DATE Cambridge Historical Commission June 21,1972 STATE CODE Cambridge STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION Massachusetts NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION 0 As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion I hereby certify that this property is included in the Nationa1 Register. in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.
The recommended Rotertu Utte Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: National foli7Douun Date Secretary of the Commonwealth, Chairman, Title Massachusetts Historical Conmission 578/73 ATTEST: LSamulap3 Keepef Date 7/22/72 Date - C 025 NAME OF PROPERTY PARPFEUEY WiliAMBr4#% SUBMITTED. DATE: WilliAM. Hens e Mis:3/28/73 The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office fur clarification of the information indicated below. 1. Name. 2. Location. 3. Classification. 4. Owner of Property. 5. Location of Legal Description. 6. Representation in Existing Surveys. 7. Description. 8. Statement of Significance. 9. Bibliogcaphy. 10. Geographical Data. a. Longitude and Latitude Coórdinates. b. Acreage. 11. Form Prepared By. 12. Certification. Photographic Coverage.
to Veca original 4E.G.S witl barder slang Other. map redone 42/73-pfo. Clarification or correction of the above items must be made prior to the initiation of our professional review. Correction of these technical errors does not necessarily insure that the nomination will then satisfy the National Register criteria in full. Thank you for your attention to the above items checked. Propisry Brattle, Weleo im Hause trss Mass Horking number 10.24.72, 1593 TECH REVIEW Photos Maps RVIEN Leg tat Nassbe Xeckol. 12-21- 22 HISTORIAN OK Accept- AmL 3/6/73 ARCHEOLOGIST 3-14-75 ARCHITECT ACCEPT KH 3/9/73 BRANCH CHIEF 114/20/73 EDITORIAL REVIEW KEEPER National Register write-up Federal Register entry _ 7-3-13 Acknowledge Send-back Re-submit Register no. 10/26/73 3-28-23 4,25.73 MAY 8 1973 NPS Number Title: 5/8/73. Brattle tlass Loc. MiDDLisis, MosE.
wartheest FOS00E PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 3. ORR PHOTOGRAPHY BOX 6 CARLISLE, MASS. 01741 CAI NI 1972 Form 10-301 (Dec. 1968) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORICPLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) NO - 3 NAME COMMON: AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCATION STREET AND NUM BER: William Brattle House 42 Brattle Street CITY OR TOWN: Cambridge STATE: Massachusetts MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: SCALE: DATE: Quadrangle 1:24,000 1956 REQUIREMENTS TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Froperty broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. STATE Massachusetts COUNTY Middlesex FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER 4. 7973 RECENÉU 1972 NATIONAL REGISTER CODE COUNTY: 25 TOT Middlesex Boston North, Boston South, Mass.) DATE CODE 017 SOMERVILLE rast Atlingtón Alewife BROO Hig North!
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Mass - (1956) scale 1:24,00g Brattle House 5/9/73 NRowland: mm ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER STATE Date Entered MASSACHUSETZS MAY 8 1979 Name Location South End Dieteict Hemmond Caetle Gloucester City Iall Ezattle (Wll1lam) House The House of Seven Gables Historic District Bale (Idward Everett) House Lane (Job) Fousa Doston Suffolk County Gloucester Essex Couty Glouceeter Basex County Cambeläge Micdlesex County Salem Essex County (Roxbury) Boston Suffolk County Bedford Miadleses County Also Notified Hon. Edward M. Kennedy Iion. Idward V. Erooke Iion. John Moakley Hon. Michael J. Hazrington Yon. Thonas P. O'Ne1l1, Js. Ion. Paul Cronin Director, Northeast Region State Eletorle Preservation Officer Ion. John F. X.
Davoren Secretary of the Cormonvealth Chairman, Mascachusetts Historical Comnisaion 40 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108 FEF RSENEIT News Release Cambriage Center for Aâult Education | 42 Brattie Street | Cambriäge, Niass. 02138 | Tel. 547-6789 "CAMBRIDGE CENTER CELEBRATES CENTENNIAL OF SERVICE TO ADULT EDUCATION" By Dale Vivirito with James M. Rankin, archivist One hundred years ago, on January 24, 1871, a public meeting was held in Lyceum Hall, chaired by Emory Washburn who after stating the ebjeet ef the mecting, "went on to advocate in an eloquent manner the advantages and need of an institution in Cambridge, where the young people of both sexes might meet and find facilities for moral and mental improvement." What Emory Washburn so passionate- ly spoke of and transcribed by Mr. C.D. Rice, Secretary, that winter evening is today the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.
What was initially intended as a place where young adults might find a free reading room and library and where by some means they might be provided with "innocent amusement and a means for social and intel- lectual culture during their leisure hours" has become one of the largest and most successful centers for adult education in the country today. Currently in its fall term, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education offers more than three hundred courses in all areas of the arts and humanities as well as special concert programs, guest lectures and rotating exhibits of faculty and student art and craft work. At the public meeting, Mr. Washburn spoke of the Catholic Church, an institution he thought far in advance of the Protestants at this Director of Publicity, Dale Vivirito News Release Cambridge Center for Adult Education | 42 Brattle Street | Cambridge, Mass. 02138 | Tel.
547-6789 -2- time, using it as a model, an institution with its doors "wide open inviting people to enter to view the works of art and listen to the fine music and by such influences as these the minds of the poorer, as well as the more cultured classes were aroused to nobler and higher aspirations." Also at that first public meeting was a Mr. W. B. Weeden of Providence, who first gave an account of the Providence Union for Christian Works, an organization already meeting with great response, then urged those present "not to allow sectarianism, religious or secular to creep into the management of the plan, but entrusted all to work well together, feeling certain that patronage would not be tolerated by the lower classes; and that sectarian bigotry could not be submitted to." One of the many clergy to attend the meeting, Rev. A. B.
Muzzey, was very much pleased to see that it "was an association for the benefit of young women as well as men." Rev. Dr. Annable was in favor of the project and entrusted those present to pursue their objective "as men, not as Christians, but as humanitarians." Mr. H. O. Houghton, whose wife was to serve many productive years as one of the Directors hoped this plan would lead "to more union of feeling in the community." Emory Washburn as well as the other original founders, a list of names that read like a turn of the century Cambridge Who's Who: William Vaughn, who became the first Chairman of the Board, Rev. Samuel Longfellow, one of the first vice-presidents, Legh R. Pearson, a founding Director and the Social Union's first librarian, Edmund Miles, C. A. Winthrop and Frank Corcoran, created what was later Director of Publicity.
Dale Vivirito News Release Cambridge Center for Adult Education / 42 Brattle Street | Cambridge, Mass. 02138 | Tel. 547-6789 - 3 - incorporated as the Cambridge Social Union. What all these people seem to have been responding to was a situation in Harvard Square not greatly unlike what is to be found today--many young adults 1ooking for something to do. The Cambridge Social Union first opened its doors to anyone over sixteen years of age upon payment of one dollar annual membership in two rented rooms at Lyceum Hall. Having outgrown Lyceum Hall, vir- tually before it opened, the Union moved first to Palmer and Brattle Streets, where a small riot ensued when the number of applicants soon exceeded the physical size of the facilities--a situation with which the Cambridge Center one hundred years later is still quite familiar.
The Union moved next to 15 Brattle, once again increasing its size. On February 4, 1889, after fifteen years of operation, a permanent location was sought, one with a large hall for concerts, special pro- grams and plays, which might also be rented to outside organizations to bring in increased revenue. The Committee on New Rooms went searching for the proper setting. The price of land in Harvard Square proper was thought too exorbitant and the Committee decided to buy in the direction they thouglt business would extend--down Brattle Street. The Social Union raised $12,000 through subscriptions and con- tributions and bought two lots of 60 x 120 feet each, one of which happened to include the ancient Brattle House. The house, contrary to expectation, proved to be in such good condition that it was decided to put it in complete repair.
It was found that by the removal of a chimney and some partitions, Director of Publicity, Dale Vivirito FEE News Release Cambridge Center for Adult Education / 42 Brattle Street | Cambridge, Mass. 02138 | Tel. 547-6789 - 4 - ample room would be made on the lower floor for a reading-room, 17 x 60 feet, occupying the whole of the eastern side. On the western side were two rooms for the library. On the second floor a suite of three rooms over the reading-room afforded excellent accommodations for the Working-Girls' Club and for the industrial branch of the Female Humane Society, while over the library were the Directors' Room with Committee Rooms adjoining.
Amid all the changes required for these pruposes the Directors thought to preserve intact the "handsome old-style staircase and the panelled wainscot of the parlor of this historic mansion of the Brattles, which dates before the Revolution." The house, however, afforded no opportunity for a hall necessary for the Union's weekly entertainments and lectures. Accordingly on the portion of land between the Brattle House and its southern neighbor, The University Press, the Social Union built Brattle Hall, designed by Messrs. Longfellow, Alden, & Harlow of Boston. At that time membership of the Cambridge Social Union was over seven hundred and the library contained over 3000 volumes. The Cambridge Social Union continued to grow in membership and provide many free services for its members, most of whom were em- ployed in surrounding factories and businesses.
These services were not maintained solely through its membership fee one dollar. The generous and much needed contributions of money as well as books and periodicals by the Union's many friends and Directors and also their involved and committed participation in the actual day-to-day running of the Union were responsible for its continuing fforts to provide services that were so greatly in demand. Director of Publicity, Dale Vivirit AN News Release Cambridge Center for Adult Education / 42 Brattle Street | Cambridge, Mass.02136 | Tel. 547-6789 As Miss W.A. Abbot, one of the Union's Directors wrote in the Fifth Annual Report, "many a little makes a muckle." Miss Abbot was referring specifically to the efforts of women who gave one evening a week to work at the Union, but that old Scotch proverb applied to almost all the efforts of those associated with the Union.
When repairs were necessary to the much used facilities, the Committee of Rooms did the carpentry and painting themselves, a practice which continued into the 1940's. In addition to library privileges and entertainments consisting cE dramatic exhibitions, concerts, illustrated lectures, etc., the educational department offered to members of the Union, for an additional fee of fifty cents for each half year of study, the privilege of entering any of the great variety of classes taught by Harvard students. During World War I, the Union began to decline in the number of services offered and also in the number of gifts and contributions received, most of the original benefactors having died or moved away from Cambridge. The rental of Brattle Hall was the chief source of revenue, but after the expenses for repairs and janitor service, this yielded little money for the Union's other services.
This decline continued after the War and into the thirties with the Union renting Brattle Hall to the Lutheran and Christian Science Churches, as well as protions of Brattle House to the first Cambridge Chapters of both the American Red Cross and the League of Women Voters. In 1937, a dynamic and visionary Cambridge attorney, Charles Bolster, became Chairman of a New Board of Directors and promptly hired Mrs. Francis C-M Donovan of the Greater Boston Agency for Director of Publicity, Dale Vipirito Cumbridge Center for Aduit Education / 42 Brattie Street | Cambridge, Mass. 02138 | Tel. 547-6789 Social Services to make feasibility study for continuing the Union's activities. Mrs. Donovan suggested three alternatives for the Union in her report: 1. continuing to act as a social ser- vice with the reasonable rental of space to deserving organizations, .2.
preserving Brattle House as an historic monument, and 3. providing adult educational services. The Board chose the last alternative and entered into negociations with Miss Dorothy Hewitt, then Director of the Boston Center for Adult Education, founded some five years earlier. The result was that on September 1, 1938, the Cambridge Center ior Adult Education, an institution governed by the Cambriage Social Union and run by the Boston Center offered seventeen evening courses at Brattle House. Miss Florence D. Chapin, one of the leaders at the Boston Center from its beginning and one of the active members of its organizing committee, functioned as Director, Miss Lydia C. Weare was secretary and Dorothy Hewitt wa.s Executive Director for both Centers.
In January, 1941, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education became an independently administered institution and Lydia Weare was appointed Director. In that first winter term a total of 225 students attended classes which were offered only on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. The Center listed forty-two courses, thirteen of which had to be cancelled because of lack of enrollment. During these years the Cambridge Center continued to cohabit with the Red Cross, the League of Women Voters, a ski association and the Vermont Iweed Shop. Miss Weare remembers a time in 1942 when they considered closing the Center because of lack of enrollment. It was decided to try Director of Publicity, Dale Vipirito Cambridge Center for Adult Education | 42 Brattle Street | Cambridge, Mass.02138 | Tel. 547-6789 - 7- one more year.
The decision was sound and the Cambridge Center served such War-related courses threefold prupose during the War years by offering as "Nutrition and National Defense", for refugees from the "escape" courses, and European intellectual providing space community with a place to teach. 1945 enrollment picked and a total 1,626 students en- rolled. Year by year the Center enjoyed continued growth in atten- dance and curriculum. In 1948 Brattle Hall was sold in order to concentrate on the development of the Center's educational facilities. In December of 1970, after thirty productive years as Director of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Lydia C. Weare retired. Alida O'Loughlin was chosen to become the third woman Director of the Center.
Working very closely with her staff and aware of the rich and exciting history of the Center, she sees a continuing and vital potential there and for adult education in this country. Director of Publicity, Daie Vioirito
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