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Graham and Parks School

Public elementary schools in MassachusettsSchools in Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Graham and Parks School is a public elementary school in Cambridge, MA. Founded in 1981, the school was originally conceived as an "alternative school" aligned with the progressive education movement. It historically emphasized project-based learning, teacher-led curriculum development, and parent involvement in all aspects of school operation.: 17–18  Since the early 2000s, state curriculum guidelines and local policy changes have diminished these aspects of the school's identity, bringing it in line with city and state standards.: 159–171  The school is named for Rosa Parks and Saundra Graham, a welfare and housing advocate from Cambridge.: 53 

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Graham and Parks School
Linnaean Street, Cambridge

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Graham and Parks School

Linnaean Street 44
02138 Cambridge
Massachusetts, United States
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Cambridge Public School District

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Cooper–Frost–Austin House
Cooper–Frost–Austin House

The Cooper–Frost–Austin House is a historic Colonial American house, built in 1681. It is located at 21 Linnaean Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is the oldest extant home in Cambridge and is owned and operated as a non-profit museum by Historic New England. The house is rarely open for public tours, but private tours can be arranged during the summer months. The house was built by Samuel Cooper on land that his father, Deacon John Cooper, had owned since 1657, and was first documented in 1689 in The Register Book of the Lands and Houses in the "New Towne" (as Cambridge was then named). Its original structure was a single room and chimney bay in width, two and one half stories in height with an integral lean-to, containing a "low room," "little room," "kitchin," "Chamber," "kitchin Chamber," "Garret," and "Cellar," all of which still exist, as do the original chimney and a facade gable. The house was extended ca. 1720 by Cooper's son, and then again between 1807 and 1816 by Martha Frost Austin and Thomas Austin who added an enclosed porch and Federal style stairway and trim. The house was acquired by Historic New England in 1912.In 2002 the Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory analyzed wooden beams from the original structure and ascertained that donor trees were felled at the following times: Winter 1675–6, Winter 1680–81, and Spring 1681. The oldest timber may have been stockpiled before construction.