The Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) was created to locate, collect, preserve, and present the culture, history, art, and contributions of the Armenian people during the past 3,000 years. The Library holds a vast collection of titles including rare...

Built in 1772, the Edmund Fowle House is the second oldest surviving house in Watertown. At the beginning of the American Revolution it served as headquarters for the executive branch of the Massachusetts government from June 1775 to September 1776.

The Newton History Museum's Jackson Homestead has been accepted for inclusion in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. The 1809 building was the home of William Jackson, a politician, businessman, and abolitionist, whose daughter Ellen left a written...

Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded in 1831 as "America's first garden cemetery", or the first "rural cemetery", with classical monuments set in a rolling landscaped terrain. The appearance of this type of landscape coincides with the rising popularity of the term...

When the 50 Cape Cod families who founded Barrington Township came together to build a community meeting house in 1765, it served as a religious meeting house for all preachers of the Gospel as well as a place to hold community meetings and elections.

The Rose Art Museum is committed to protecting freedom of expression, and universally condemns any attempts to silence an artist, be it from the public, private, or state apparatus. Alongside many other institutions, the full film will be on display in the upper...

Located on the scenic banks of the Charles River in the historic 1814 Boston Manufacturing Company textile mill, CRMII is on the National Register of Historic Places as America’s first factory.

Designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and Frederick Law Olmsted, Stonehurst the Robert Treat Paine Estate, is the only museum devoted to these two pioneering figures in American architectural and landscape design history. At Stonehurst, these close friends and...

The Cambridge Historical Society has been a repository of history and culture for over 100 years. We are an active non-profit organization and are dedicated to promoting an interest in all aspects of the history and heritage of Cambridge.

Located at the contested borders between the Seleucid, Parthian, and Roman Empires—and on the Euphrates River, a major north-south transportation artery—Dura-Europos was home to a multicultural population. Settled by Macedonian veterans around 300 BCE, Parthians...