Below you will find links to the Commission's current reports.  If you are interested in a report that is not posted here, please call the Commission at 617/349-4683 or 617/349-6112 (TTY).

• Staff Memos and Guidelines
• Demo Memos
• District Designation Study Reports
• Landmark Study Reports

Staff Memoranda and Guidelines:

• Window Repair and Replacement Guidelines
• HVAC Guidelines
• Statement of Procedures for Photographic Evidence for CHC hearings
• Policy for Holding Landmark Designation Study Hearings for Preferably Preserved Significant Buildings
• Policy Limiting Validity of Permits
• DRAFT Preservaton Restriction Policy, August 6, 2010

Demolition Review Cases--Staff Memoranda:

• Case D-1258: 99 Kinnaird St memo

• Case D-1254: 4 Kimball Ln memo

• Case D-1250: 21 Sciarappa St. memo

• Case D-1249: 8 Blanchard Rd. memo

• Case D-1244: 2 Hemlock Rd. memo

• Case D-1243: 23-25 Cottage Park Ave (Quonset Hut)    proposed parking plan    elevations for 22 Cottage Park Ave
  Case D-1204: 23-25 Cottage Park Ave., Quonset Hut
  Case D-1204: supplement to above

• Case D-1236: 11 Brookford St     proposed plans

• Case D-1235: 119-135 Harvey St     proposed plans      updated plans

• Case D-1230: 60 Clifton St

• Case D-1229: 151 Raymond St.

• Case D-1227: 2 & 10 Brattle Cir.

• Case D-1226: 17 Clary St.

• Case D-1214: 152 Sixth St.

• Case D-1209: 180 Franklin St.

• Case D-1208: 18 Reservoir St.

• Case D-1204: 23-25 Cottage Park Ave., Quonset Hut
  Case D-1204: supplement to above

• Case D-1194: 34 Larchwood Dr., garage

• Case D-1190: Lincoln Way housing development, 181 Walden St

• Case D-1187: 1063-1077 Massachusetts Ave

• Case D-1182: 136 Fayerweather St / 56 Saville St

• Case D-1180: Acorn Park Drive, Building 15
  Case D-1001, 1002 memo

• Case D-1177: 66-76 Harvey St

• Case D-1176: 111 Clifton St

• Case D-1167: 20 Sacramento St (rear) carriage house

• Case D-1156: Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy St

District Study Reports:

• NEW! Staff Evaluation of Grove and Blanchard Streets, petitioned for NCD study
  Petition for Blanchard and Grove Streets

•      Avon Hill Boundary Study 3/5/09 CHC transmittal and 10/30/08 Addendum Report
  
•      12/01/06 Final Report of the Lower Common Neighborhood Conservation District Study Committee (with illustrations).
       See also Report Summary.
  
•      "Original Report": 11/3/06 Final Report of the Avon Hill Neighborhood Conservation District Boundary Study Committee Part I: Body of Report and Part II: Appendices
  
•      4/28/06 Final Report of the Half Crown-Marsh Neighborhood Conservation District Consolidation Study (PDF file, 124KB) and a Map of the Half Crown-Marsh District
  
•      12/12/05 Five Year Status Report of the Harvard Square Neighborhood Conservation District Study (PDF file, 131KB)
  
•      5/31/01 Report of the Half Crown Neighborhood Conservation District Study Committee (PDF file, 49 KB)
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•      11/29/00 Harvard Square Neighborhood Conservation District Final Study Report (PDF file, 267KB)
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•      11/2/00 Marsh Neighborhood Conservation District Final Study Report II  (PDF file, 150KB) 
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Landmark Designation Study Reports:
Please note that not every property that has a study report listed below has been designated a landmark by the City Council. See landmarks page for a list of current landmarks.

• L-106: St. Francis Church and Rectory, 315-325 Cambridge St./40-42 Sciarappa St./74-76 Gore St. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, owner. Under Study
  Staff evaluation memo 12/30/11

• L-97: 40 Norris Street (Ellis School/North Cambridge Catholic High School), Designated
  Final Landmark Designation Study Report 11/10/11
  Preliminary Landmark Designation Study Report 11/2/11
  staff evaluation memo of 11/24/10
  link to CDD memo of 11/9/10 (attachment to above CHC memo)

• A. A. Carey House, 28 Fayerweather Street, Under Study
  staff evaluation memo 10/6/11

• Birkhoff House: 45 Fayerweather Street, Under Study
  staff evaluation memo 7/29/11

• Kendall Square Group: 238 Main Street, 264/290 Main Street, and 292 Main Street, Under Study
  staff evaluation mem0 7/6/11

• Chapin House: 13 Kennedy Road, Study Not Initiated
  staff evaluation memo 7/6/11

• Saint James Episcopal Church (1991 Massachusetts Avenue), Designated
  1/21/10 letter of conditional approval of Case #2445
  4/7/10 letter confirming conditional approval of Case #2445
  minutes of 7/1/10 hearing of CHC
  8/10/10 letter of decision for Case #2445 and response to conditions
  NEW! 11/4/10 Final Landmark Designation Study Report
  NEW! 11/4/10 Certificate of Appropriateness

• 22 Cottage Park Avenue (J. H. Emerson Co.) staff evaluation memo of 5/28/10, Study Not Initiated

• 9 Ash Street (Philip Johnson House) staff evaluation memo of 5/28/10 Study Terminated.
  Property under protocol arrangement between Harvard University and Cambridge Historical Commission, whereby alterations to the property will be reviewed with the Executive Director of the Commission.

• Note: Shady Hill Square is not a landmark, but is protected to the same degree by a Preservation Restriction signed by the property owners for the residences and the open space/square.
  Shady Hill Square staff update memo of 5/28/10
  Shady Hill Square Landmark Study Report dated 8/28/00 (PDF file, 64KB)  Study terminated when Preservation Restriction signed by owners 

• 187 Magazine Street, (Shell "Spectacular" Sign) Designated; 10/7/09 update memo; 10/8/09 revised proposed designation order

• 1950 Massachusetts Avenue (Masonic Temple) Designated

• 41 Sacramento Street (William Dean Howells House) Designated

• 1797-1803 Massachusetts Avenue (former North Prospect Congregational Church) Designated

• 1815 Massachusetts Avenue (former Sears Roebuck & Co. building) staff evaluation memo Not Designated

• 430-432 Windsor Street (former Immaculate Conception Church and Rectory) final report Designated

• 64 Pearl Street (Hastings-Munroe House) final report Not designated

• 38 Reservoir St Wall report Not Designated

• 200 Broadway (Garment District building) Draft Report Not Designated

• Wiswall/Orne House (107 Auburn Street) Designated

• Riverside Bindery Compex (233-249 Putnam Avenue/19-23 Blackstone Street), Designated
  Note, for illustrations and appendices, please review hard copy on file at Historical Commission.

• Margaret Eustis/Korb House (114 Oxford Street) Designated

• Mt. Auburn Cemetery Reception House (583 Mt. Auburn Street) Designated

• Tulip Tree at 1436-1446 Cambridge Street (PDF file, 76KB) Not Designated
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• William James House, 95 Irving Street (PDF file, 85KB) Designated
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• Park House Hotel (39 Cedar Street/Cedar Square/1-3 McLean Place) Designated

• Swedenborg Chapel (50 Quincy Street) Designated