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Oldest House in Cambridge

Middlesex County · dedicated 1930 · Massachusetts Avenue and Linnaean Street, Cambridge · location approximate

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At number 21 Linnaean Street is the Cooper-Austin house built in 1657, at what was then the northern end of the Cambridge Cow Common, by John Cooper, selectman, town clerk, and deacon of the church.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

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