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201 Cambridge Street Phone UN 4-3645 Cambridge 41, Massachusetts
COUNTY BANK
AND TRUST COMPANY
MAIN OFFICE
CENTRAL SQUARE
CAMBRIDGE
515 MASSACHUSETTS AVE.
BRANCH OFFICE
EAST CAMBRIDGE
310 CAMBRIDGE STREET
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CAMBRIDGE 39, MASS
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Our second century of operation finds us in almost every corner of Cambridge with up-to-the minute banking facilities and services.
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Cambridge Residents find Harvard Trust a full-service bank in every sense -a bank that handles all banking needs including checking accounts, savings accounts and every kind of a loan.
For assistance with your particular banking needs, call or visit your nearest Harvard Trust office. TR 6-1700 is the number for any of our Cambridge offices.
· CAMBRIDGE Harvard Square (Main Office)
· Central Square
· Kendall Square · Porter Square
· Alewife Brook Parkway
Also in Arlington, Belmont, Concord and Littleton
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303 THIRD STREET UNiversity 4-3100
Cambridge Electric Light Company
46 BLACKSTONE STREET
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Mount Auburn Cemetery
The Oldest Garden Cemetery In The United States
N OTED for the beauty of its natural landscape and its historic interest. Here are buried Louis Agassiz, Edwin Booth, Phillips Brooks, Charles Bulfinch, William Ellery Channing, Charlotte Cushman, Mary Baker Eddy, Charles W. Eliot, Charles Dana Gibson, Asa Gray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Winslow Homer, Julia Ward Howe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, William T. G. Morton, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Josiah Royce, Joseph Story, Charles Sumner, Theodore Thomas and many other famous persons.
An Investment Fund of over $8,000,000 provides for the proper mainten- ance of perpetual care lots and ornamental grounds.
Complete Cremation Facilities. Choice of two chapels for services. Niches for urns in chapel columbaria, cinerary urns, concrete crypts and burial vaults.
Desirable Lots for Sale. Landscape gardening and florist service. Cut flowers, potted plants, Easter lilies, Christmas wreaths, and other decorations avail- able at greenhouses or placed on lots.
For further information communicate with the cemetery office.
MOUNT AUBURN STREET Cambridge 38, Massachusetts KIrkland 7-7105
CAMBRIDGE DIRECTORY 1961
Combining Six Distinct Directories :- Governmental Directory-City, Town, County, State and Federal. Buyers Directory-A local source of sales and service. Classified Directory-Business, professional and social. Alphabetical Directory-Names, occupations and addresses. Numerical Directory-Streets, householders and business. Telephone Numerical Directory.
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CONTENTS
Page
Abbreviations
205
Alphabetical Directory.
206
Apartment Buildings
141
Associations, Clubs and Societies
143
Banks and Trust Companies
147
Buildings - Office and Public
148
Buyers' Directory
101-140
Cambridge - "What You Should Know About"
13
Cemeteries.
149
Churches
150
City Officers
30
Classified Directory
141
Convents
152
Corporations and Chartered Institutions See Alphabetical Directory
County Officers (Middlesex)
34
Courts.
35
Fire Department
32
Governmental Directory.
27
Hospitals
159
Index to Advertisers.
8
Justices of the Peace.
160
Libraries
32
Inside Back Cover
Maps.
Notaries Public. 164
Numerical Directory
653
Parks and Playgrounds
165
Police Department
32
Post Office
37
Public Libraries.
32
Railroads 167
School Department
32
Schools, Colleges and Academies 170
State Government 36
Tax Rate 39
Telephone Numerical Directory.
Green Section
United States Government.
36
Halls 158
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Page
Ahern & Lay Inc. .
135
American Friends Service Committee Inc 107
Austin-Hastings Co Inc.
130
Avery & Saul Co
133
Avon Home The .
108
B B Chemical Co 124
Billings & Stover Inc
111
Bonner John Co Inc The
116
Boston Credit Bureau Inc
Front Cover
Brattle Films Inc
140
Cambridge Brake Service 104 o o
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce top lines and 100
Cambridge Chronicle & Sun . top edge
Cambridge Civic Association 107 Cambridge Clinic 111
Cambridge Electric Light Co . opp inside Front Cover and top lines Cambridge Federal Savings and Loan Association . . top lines Cambridge Gas Co. . opp inside Back Cover, bottom edge and top lines Cambridge Housing Authority. 119
Cambridge Lumber Co front edge
Back Cover
Cambridge Savings Bank
Cambridge Taxi Company 139
Cambridge Trust Company insert opp Telephone Numerical Directory and top lines
Cambridge Visiting Nursing Association Inc The 109
Cambridge Young Mens Christian Assn insert opp
Alphabetical Directory
Cambridgeport Savings Bank Back Cover
Carstein Coal Co
114
Chapin Wood Insurance Agency Inc Front Cover
Columbian Co-operative Bank 105
Costa Ambulance Service Inc . Front Cover
County Bank and Trust Company Front Cover
Craig Willard C Insurance Agency.
Front Cover
Cutter Wood & Sanderson Co 134
Dana Realty Co 136
Danehy John L 121
Deran Confectionery Co Inc 134
Dixon F W Co. 132
Donahue John J & Son Funeral Home 114
Dudley & Borland
Front Cover and 120, 137
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E M F Electric Supply Co top lines East Cambridge Savings Bank · top lines
Ellis & Andrews. 138
Family Society of Cambridge The 110
General Insulation Company 125
Gilbert Harry A Inc .
137
Goldstein George
122
Green Instrument Co Inc .
126
Harvard Trust Co . back edge, inside Front Cover
Hastings W B & Co Inc .
Back Cover
Hinman Asbestos Corporation
125
Holy Ghost Hospital
117
Hotel Continental
Back Cover
Jose Edwin H . 122
Little Brown & Co. 136
Long A E & Son Inc
· top lines
Loudon Advertising
. 101
Macalaster Bicknell Corp 128
Malcolm William J & Son 135
Mason Marguerite S . 137
Memorial Laboratory Sales 122
Metropolitan Pipe & Supply Co top lines and 111
Miller Electric Service Co .
112
Modern Offset Printing & Mailing 136
Mount Auburn Cemetery Back Cover, opp Title Page
Nash Real Estate & Insurance 121
National Casket Company Inc . 133
Niles Inc . 138
North Avenue Savings Bank . insert opp Numerical Directory
North Cambridge Co-Operative Bank .insert opp Classified Directory
O'Brien Daniel F Funeral Home Inc . . top lines
Out of Town News Inc Back Cover
Pella Vista Inc 139
Phelan W T & Company
121
Phillips Brothers Inc
103
Polaroid Corp .insert opp Alphabetical Directory
Pray John H & Sons Co
115
Price & Lee Co The . 12
Quinn J Henry. 138
Reliance Co-operative Bank 105
Roche Stuart & Watson. 122
Rogers Funeral Home
114
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Sage Edwin R Co
. 115
St John's R C Church
106
Sancta Maria Hospital
118
Shepard Pharmacy Inc
112
Simplex Wire & Cable Co
131
Soucy Val Roofing
139
Spilewski's Market Inc .
115
Star Pharmacy Inc
112
Stone Fred Inc 135
Stone George R Co 137
Storer Damon & Lund 120
Sweetnam George H Inc
134
Thibault Brothers Inc 102
Treadway Motor House 135
United-Carr Fastener Corp - Central Advertising
and Marketing Research Office 127
United Stay Company Inc . 133
University Trust Company .insert opp Classified Directory
Van Iderstine Harry & Son Insurance Agency Inc 120
Vappi & Company Inc 111
Warren Baking Corp ·
113
Waterman J S & Sons Inc . Front Cover
Watson Charles B Inc - Funeral Home. Back Cover
Welch James O Company . 132
Wheelock Lovejoy & Company Inc 129
Wyeth Funeral Service . 114
Yarlott Gordon . top lines
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HOW MANY CHANGES IN A YEAR?
Out of every 100 People as listed in the last Directory
16% to 18% Move away or die
MOVING
17% to 19% "New" people move into town or reach listing age.
26% to 29% More change their ad- dresses or their jobs or some other vital fact that affects their listing.
( All that's left that's good) Making a total of 59% to 66% of the People listed who have new information in some particular which can be surely found only in the NEW DIRECTORY
Note: These figures are from repeated checks in numerous cities and do not vary 5% in any one year.
THAT IS WHY NEW DIRECTORIES MUST BE PUBLISHED EVERY YEAR.
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For Communities in Seven States, with a Population in Excess of Five Million
CONNECTICUT
Ansonia, Derby, Shelton and Seymour Branford and North Branford
Bridgeport, Stratford, Fairfield, Southport, Easton and Trumbull Bristol, Forestville, Terryville and Plainville Danbury and Bethel Danielson and Brooklyn
Darien, Noroton, Noroton Heights and New Canaan
Greenwich, Cos Cob, Riverside, Old Green- wich and Byram
Groton, Groton Long Point, Noank, Mystic Hamden, North Haven and Cheshire Hartford
Hartford Suburban Includes East Hartford, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor, Bloomfield, Newington, Farmington, Glastonbury and Rocky Hill
Manchester Meriden
Middletown, Portland and Cromwell
Milford and Orange
New Britain, Berlin and Kensington
New Haven, West Haven, East Haven, Woodbridge
New London, Waterford, Niantic
New Milford, Brookfield, Bridgewater
Northern Connecticut Includes Enfield, Thompsonville, Windsor Locks, Ware- house Point, Suffield, Hazardville and Scitico
Norwalk and South Norwalk
Norwich
Prospect, Beacon Falls, Bethany and Oxford
Ridgefield, Georgetown, Redding, Redding Ridge Rockville, Vernon, Tolland and Ellington Southington
Stamford
Torrington, Winsted, Litchfield, Goshen Norfolk and Harwinton
Wallingford
Waterbury, Naugatuck
Waterbury Suburban Includes Watertown, Thomaston, Terryville, Wolcott, Oak- ville and Middlebury
Westport, Saugatuck, Greens Farms, Wes- ton, Wilton
Willimantic, Windham and Coventry
FLORIDA
Boca Raton
Delray Beach, Gulf Stream and Highland Beach
Homestead, Florida City, Cutler, Cutler Ridge, Goulds, Modello, Leisure City, Naranja, Peters, Perrine and Princeton
MAINE
Bath, Arrowsic, Georgetown, Phippsburg, West Bath and Woolwich
Brunswick, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Harps- well and Topsham
Portland Suburban Includes Cape Eliza- beth, Cumberland, Falmouth, Free- port, Gray, North Yarmouth, Pownal, Scarborough and Yarmouth
MASSACHUSETTS
Amherst, Hadley and Hatfield
Athol and Orange
Beverly (Hamilton and Wenham)
Beverly (Manchester and Essex)
Brockton
Chicopee, Chicopee Falls, Willimansett, Aldenville and Fairview
Clinton and Lancaster
Fitchburg Gardner
Haverhill, Groveland and Merrimac Holyoke and South Hadley
Ipswich, Boxford, Georgetown, Middleton, Newbury, Rowley, Salisbury, Tops- field, West Topsfield
Leominster
Marlboro and Hudson
Milford and Hopedale
Northampton and Easthampton
Palmer, Ware and Monson
South Berkshire Includes Great Barring- ton, Alford, Egremont, Monterey, Mt. Washington, New Marlboro, Sheffield, Stockbridge, West Stockbridge also Canaan, Falls Village, Conn.
Springfield Springfield Suburban Includes West Springfield, Agawam, North Agawam, Longmeadow, East Longmeadow, Feed- ing Hills, Hampden, Ludlow and Wilbraham Westfield, Blandford, Chester, Granville, Huntington, Russell, Montgomery, Southwick
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Exeter, Hampton, Hampton Beach and New Hampshire Coast
White Mountains Includes Littleton, Lisbon, Woodsville, Whitefield, Bath, Bethle- hem, Carroll, Franconia, Haverhill, Lyman, Landaff also Wells River, Vt.
NEW JERSEY
Bayonne Belleville and Nutley
Bloomfield and Glen Ridge
Clifton
Elizabeth, Hillside, Linden, Roselle, Roselle Park
Garfield
Irvington
Kearny, Harrison, East Newark and North Arlington
Montclair, Glen Ridge, Caldwell, Essex Falls, Verona and Cedar Grove
Newark New Providence, Berkeley Heights, Murray Hill
Orange, East Orange, South Orange and Maplewood
Passaic Paterson
Paterson Suburban Includes Haledon, Prospect Park, Hawthorne, Totowa Borough, Little Falls, West Paterson
Ridgewood, Midland Park, Glen Rock, Fair- lawn and Ho-Ho-Kus
Rutherford, East Rutherford, Lyndhurst, Carlstadt, Wood-Ridge
Scotch Plains and Fanwood
Summit, Springfield and Millburn Union and Springfield West Orange, Livingston, Roseland
NEW YORK
Beacon, Fishkill, Glenham Kingston
Middletown, Wallkill and Goshen
Newburgh, New Windsor, Cornwall Port Chester and Rye, also Byram, Conn.
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A Summary
Suggested and Planned by American Community Advertising Association Adopted as a regular feature in all directories published by the Association of North American Directory Publishers
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
"The University City"
Form of Government Plan E - City Manager-City Council.
Population 107,716 (1960 U. S. Census).
Area
6.25 square miles.
Climate
Temperate. Annual Temperature Average 50.7ºF.
Seasonal average-Winter, 30.36ºF. Summer, 70.3ºF.
Tax Rate $69.80 per $1000 on Real and Personal Prop- erty.
Assessed Valuation
$238,458,150 (1960). $240,500,000 (1961).
Banks
13 with total assets in excess of $422,000,- 000.
Post Office Receipts
6 Post Offices - 5 Contract Stations. $4,916,491.00 in 1960.
Building and Construction
949 building permits issued in 1960 for new construction at estimated cost of $16,- 989,215.
Energy
Gas, Electric and Steam provided by Cam- bridge Electric Light Co., and Cambridge Steam Corp.
Telephones
65,750.
Industrial
378 manufacturing concerns with 26,000 em- ployed in manufacturing. $123,680,000 payroll to 42.2% ofthose employed in the city.
Principal Products
Industry is diversified from the manufacture and processing of food to research, de- sign and manufacture of professional and scientific instruments.
Railroads
Boston & Maine. New York Central.
Highways Principal State highways lead into Cambridge.
Transportation
Cambridge is a major trucking center with many inter-city fleets operating on daily schedules to New York and Chicago.
Newspapers
Cambridge Chronicle Sun (Weekly). Cambridge Courier (Weekly). Cambridge Edition, Boston American (Daily).
Radio and Television
WGBH-TV Channel 2 (Educational).
WTAO-740 k. c. WGBH-FM WXHR-FM
Hotels
3 Hotels. 2 Motels. 1 Proposed Motel. Many tourist homes.
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Hospitals
3 General Hospitals with 560 beds, including Cambridge City Hospital.
Educational
"The University City" abounds in education- al institutions from elementary school level to graduate school level. Public School System provides 14 elementary schools, 2 vocational schools and 2 high schools. There are private and parochial schools at all levels, college preparatory schools. Cambridge is the site of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Radcliffe College. Total enrollment at colleges and universities is estimated at 15,000 students.
Libraries
Cambridge Public Library has central library and seven branches with over 200,000 volumes available. College and univer- sity libraries are also available for re- search. Widener Library at Harvard Uni- versity is the third largest library in the world.
Recreation
Innumerable recreational opportunities and facilities available in Cambridge and in
adjacent Boston. There are facilities and programs to satisfy all ages, from tot-lots supervised by the municipal recreation department, to concerts by the world fam- ous Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Cambridge Civic Symphony.
General Information
The Metropolitan Transit System provides intracity bus lines and a rapid transit system subway connects Cambridge with Boston in 8 minutes from Harvard square. Cambridge maintains its own water supply system with three reservoirs with a stor- age capacity of four and one-half billion gallons. The water is soft and non-corro- sive. Water rates are the lowest in the state. The system is the most complete of any public water supply in New Eng- land.
Since Cambridge is in the Heart of the Metro- politan Boston area, which includes 17 cities and 48 towns in a 20-mile radius of Boston, it can and does draw on the 2,000,000 population within the area for skilled labor. Rapid transit facilities pro- vide excellent transportation into Cam- bridge.
"You Will Be Happy In Cambridge"
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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
Founded 1636
Incorporated 1846
WASHINGTON
OF THE
ANCAICAN ARPT Jm + 3 1225
Washington Elm
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The New England Gas & Electric Co Office Building
The historic past and the future exist side by side in Cambridge. Famous historical sites contrast with modern buildings in which enterprises of the future are planned for the betterment of Mankind and the Nation.
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THIS IS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
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"Learning, Science, History flow together along the Charles River".
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LIVING IN CAMBRIDGE
"A College Community is an attractive place in which to live, and a college community which provides oppor- tunities for research is of incalculable value to an industry engaged in whole or in part in research"- Mayor Edward A. Crane.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Home
A Modern Home In Cambridge
"Know old Cambridge? Hope you do .-
"Born there? Don't say! I was, too.
"Nicest place that ever was seen,-
"Colleges red and Common green,
"Sidewalks brownish, with trees between;
"Sweetest spot beneath the skies."-
-Oliver Wendall Holmes Parson Turrell's Legacy.
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CAMBRIDGE IS A CITY WHERE THINGS HAPPEN FIRST !
The first university in the United States-Harvard-was founded in 1636 in Cambridge.
The FIRST Printing Press in North America
The first printing press in North America was set up in Cambridge in 1638. Stephen Daye printed the first book in America in 1640.
The first vaccination against smallpox was administered in Cambridge in 1800 by Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse who was the first Surgeon General of the United States Army.
The first great American telescope was manufactured in Cambridge in 1850.
The first sewing machine was perfected in 1845 by Elias Howe while working in the home of a Cam- bridge machinist.
The first pressed glass was molded in Cambridge in 1827. Enoch Robinson revolutionized the glass making industry when he injected molten glass into a mold to create the first piece of pressed glass -a water tumbler.
The first experimental wind tunnel was built at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cam- bridge in 1913. Research at the Wright Wind Tunnel contributed greatly to the advancement of the aircraft industry.
The first concepts of inertial guidance for missiles were formulated by researchers and engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Polaris Missile Guidance system resulted.
Many firsts in the future will result from the continuing research and development program now in progress in Cambridge. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entering its second century, has 900 non-classified research projects now in progress.
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EDUCATION IN CAMBRIDGE
Morse School
Cambridge, Massachusetts,-"The University City" offers a wide choice of elementary and secondary school facilities.
In the Public School system there are 14 elementary schools, 2 vocational schools, and 2 high schools. Shown above is one of the modern school buildings of the public school system.
The Public School system provides many services to individual pupils without charge. These services include psychological testing, psychiatric evaluation, instruction for the gifted student, the retarded, the physically handicapped in school and at home, for those with speech, hearing, reading and visual defects.
There are 11 elementary and 6 secondary schools in the parochial school system. Private schools on the elementary and secondary levels are available as are several college preparatory schools.
In the adult education area there are University Extension courses available at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education is one of Cambridge's "most outstanding products". It's educational opportunities attract scholars from all over the world.
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PUBLIC SAFETY
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RESCUE SERVICE
CAMBRIDGE
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Modern equipment, radio dispatched and controlled, with well trained and efficient personnel provides around the clock protection to Cambridge residents and industry.
The 240-man Police Department covers the city 24 hours a day. Radio dispatched patrol cars respond to calls instantly and police assistance is available to any home or industry in a matter of minutes.
The Fire Department has 258 men. Protection 24 hours a day is provided with 29 pieces of modern equipment, radio equipped, and manned by trained fire-fighters. The Fire Department operates a Rescue Company service which responds to fire alarms and all other emergency cases where the special equipment and highly trained personnel of this unit can be of assistance.
Air view of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and proposed "Technology Square" project.
In the "Soaring Sixties" the accent is on research.
Here in Cambridge, Massachusetts, America's industry will find the nation's finest research facilities.
Cambridge is the home of world reknowned Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology with their fabulous facilities for research in many fields. Cambridge is also the home of some of the world's foremost private research and development laboratories. It was in Cambridge that much of the electronics industry and other modern scientific advances were conceived, researched and developed.
The future of your industry may be here in Cambridge-a progressive and pioneering city.
Your inquiries concerning Cambridge addressed to the City Manager, City Hall, Cambridge 39, Mass., will receive prompt attention.
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Cambridge Electron Accelerator
The $11,000,000 Cambridge Electron Accelerator shown here is a joint Harvard University-Massachu- setts Institute of Technology development, financed by the Atomic Energy Commission, and designed to pro- duce the fastest nuclear particles yet achieved by man.
The multi-million dollar installation will add to man's knowledge of the properties of sub-nuclear parti- cles and of the forces holding nuclei together.
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