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Highland road and morrison ave - Looks like they've got the framing done for the first floor of whatever the former donut shop is being reincarnated as. Does anyone know about the company who is developing the property - are they a good company or is this going to be another "davis square condos" situation?

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Specifically Highland Road runs from the bike path to Broadway.

Morrison & Highland Ave never intersect.

Highland road is a quite lovely street - its where all the big wigs used to live when Somerville was "young" - the judges, mayors, people with money. That's why the houses are so nice and the street is so wide. It was THE place to live at one time...and still is, imho...

Isn't the dirty secret that all that room out front leaves the houses with absolutely miniscule backyards?

Nevermind, sort of. Highland Avenue lots are 80 feet deep, same as Josephine and Rogers. To the east, Pearson, Pritchard, Boston: 70 and 75 feet deep.

However, west of Willow (Lowden, Bay State, Liberty) the lots are 95 or 100 feet deep. There's where the original thought came from...

I think you mean Highland Road, too ...

Ah, that makes sense! I live on one of the neighboring streets and had wondered why that one was different.

Actually, the reason it is that way - with the additional green space between the sidewalk and the street, making it more desirable - is that originally, when the bike path was a railway, the train stop was where the donut shop used to be, and Highland between the bike path and Kidder was planned to be a park. (The whole College/Morrison/Broadway/Cedar neighborhood was planned.) Then they ended up deciding to build houses there after all, and so had more room. At least that is the story I was told, wish I could recall who told it!

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That's Hancock on the other side.

Neither Morrison nor Highland Rd intersect with Highland ave.

On the other side of the bike path, the road that would be highland road if it continued across the path and through lexington playground is Hancock St.

I'm just wondering if 1 Highland Rd. is still there.

what's at 1 Highland Road?

It was what we used to call the abandoned camper trailer that belonged to the people who own 3-7 Highland Rd.

Google Maps must have a total blast dealing with that situation.

no worse than they have with Putnam St vs Putnam Rd.

If you put rd in, you get rd, not ave.

Edited 2009-01-14 17:31 (UTC)

As do out-of-towners .... (speaking as a Highland Ave resident here)

Google Maps doesn't have a problem with it but the pizza delivery people often do.

I used to live on another Somerville "avenue" with a correspondingly named "road", though in my case the doppleganger isn't anywhere nearby.

I work as a consultant who gets paid through the mail, and every so often a new client would say "Hey, I mailed you your payment but it came back 'No such address!'" My first question is, "Did you address it to Linden Road instead of Linden Avenue?" So far, that's always been the cause.

Just the price of working in a city so dense that it needs several layers of street-namespacing...

Edited 2009-01-14 19:45 (UTC)

Or of living in New England where we have no creativity in naming streets and towns.

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