A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the Final Landmark Designation Report for the Hovey & Markham Cottages as follows: Property located at 40 Cottage Street. See renumbered Agenda item #2 and #8 on 2/12/2018, formerly Agenda item #1A and #1B on 2/12/2018

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 FIDGE HISTO Bruce A. Irving, Chair; Susannah Barton Tobin, Vice Chair; Charles M. Sullivan, Executive Director William G. Barry, Ji., Robert G. Crocker, Joseph V. Ferrara, Chandra Harrington, Jo M. Solet, Members Gavin W. Kleespies, Paula A. Paris, Kyle Sheffield, Alternates COMMISSIO Date: February 7, 2018 To: Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager From: Charles M. Sullivan, Executive Director Re: Hovey & Markham Cottages (40 and 44 Cottage Street) landmark designation report and CHC recommendations Attached please find the Final Landmark Designation Report for the Hovey & Markham Cottages located at 40 and 44 Cottage Street. On February 1, 2018, the Cambridge Historical Commission voted unanimously to find that each of these two separately-owned properties meets the criteria in the ordinance for landmark designation and to forward the report to the City Council with a positive recommendation for designation with the two proposed council orders on the last pages of the report. At the February 1 hearing, the owners of 40 Cottage Street, Robin Chase and Roy Russell, spoke in opposition to the landmark designation recommendation and the owner of 44 Cottage Street, Charles Allen, Jr., supported the proposed designations. The Commission voted to recommend that the City Council designated these two, nearly identical Greek Revival homes as the best means of preserving this important pairing and the character of the street. The landmark study was initiated in February 2017 in response to a petition of a dozen Cambridge voters and in the fifth month of a six-month demolition delay period for 40 Cottage Street.