Ash Street Historic District
The National Park Service has not published a boundary polygon for this district; the map shows the listed properties inside it and the district's reference point.
Why it's listed
Ash Street Historic District is a district in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, entered in the National Register of Historic Places in April 1982 as one of several districts in the Cambridge Multiple Resource Area. The surviving text is administrative rather than descriptive. It includes a folder locator card, a review log showing a decision dated April 13, 1982, and labels for photographs taken in November 1980. These labels refer to buildings on Ash Street, including numbers 12, 16 and 19, as well as 6 and 8 Ash Place, and to a property at 153 Mount Auburn Street. The document does not describe the buildings' age, architecture, builders or history, and it does not state why the district was judged significant. A reader would need the full nomination text and the multiple property cover sheet for those details.
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| Areas of significance | Architecture |
|---|---|
| Acreage | 2.9 |
| Boundary source | not published |
| Full listing page | Ash Street Historic District (property record) |
What listing means for this property
This is a historic district. Buildings within its boundary are either contributing (they add to the district's significance) or non-contributing. Owners of contributing income-producing buildings can claim the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit; homeowners should look at state credits. National Register districts impose no design review by themselves; a local historic district ordinance, if one exists, does (the difference explained).
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.