A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a recommendation of the Cambridge Historical Commission to approve the final Landmark Designation Report for the Alberta V. Scott House at 28 Union Street

CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL COMMISSION 831 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Fl., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Telephone: [phone removed] Fax: [phone removed] TTY: [phone removed] E-mail: histcomm@cambridgema.gov URL: http://www.cambridgema.gov/Historic Bruce A. Irving, Chair, Susannah Barton Tobin, Vice Chair; Charles M. Sullivan, Executive Director Joseph V. Ferrara, Chandra Harrington, Elizabeth Lyster, Caroline Shannon, Jo M. Solet, Members Gavin W. Kleespies, Paula A. Paris, Kyle Sheffield, Alternates Date: June 30, 2021 To: Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager From: Charles M. Sullivan, Executive Director Re: Alberta V. Scott House (28 Union Street) landmark designation report and CHC recommendation Attached please find the Final Landmark Designation Report for the Alberta V. Scott House at 28 Union Street in Cambridgeport. On May 6, 2021, the Cambridge Historical Commission voted unanimously to approve the designation report and recommendations, finding that the property meets the criteria in the ordinance for landmark designation and requested that the report be forwarded to the City Council with a positive recommendation for designation. A Cambridge Latin School graduate, Alberta Scott became the first Black graduate of Radcliffe College in 1898. She went on to a teaching career at the Tuskeegee Institute, but her career and life were cut short by an illness and her early death. She died here in Cambridge in 1902. Please let me know if you have any questions.