Massachusetts Avenue
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Massachusetts Avenue is the name shared by several prominent streets in the United States. Each Massachusetts Avenue is commonly called "Mass. Ave." by the residents of its hometown.
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[edit] Boston, Massachusetts
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Massachusetts Avenue starts in Roxbury and then runs southeast-northwest through Boston, paralleling Interstate 93 for a short distance and then interchanging with the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90). It crosses the Charles River from the Back Bay into Cambridge via the Harvard Bridge, where it bisects the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and curves around two sides of Harvard Yard at Harvard Square and Harvard Law School. It continues through Cambridge, Arlington, and Lexington.
The road, by the same name, continues northwest and west, through many different cities and towns. It largely parallels or joins Route 2 and Route 2A, all the way into central Massachusetts, with a few gaps at towns that have different names for the central road.
On the night of April 18-19, 1775, Paul Revere rode his horse down this road on his "Midnight Ride." On April 18-19, 1775, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott also rode on Massachusetts Avenue on their way to Concord. (These travels were on portions of the road on the Cambridge side of the Charles River; the Harvard Bridge was not constructed until the 1880s.)
Boston band The Dresden Dolls reference the street in their song 'Truce' ("I want Mass Ave from the square to my apartment").
[edit] Indianapolis, Indiana
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Located just a few blocks northeast of Monument Circle, Massachusetts Avenue was designed in 1821 as one of the four original diagonal streets of downtown Indianapolis. It runs northeast from the circle. Today it lies at the heart of the city's arts district, which includes four theaters as well as a number of shops, galleries, and eateries.
This city also held the 1992 Mass. Ave fall festival.
[edit] Lawrence, Kansas
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Similarly named Massachusetts Street (or "Mass Street") is a main thoroughfare through the central business district of downtown Lawrence, Kansas. It takes its name from the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company, which founded Lawrence to populate the Kansas territory with Free-State (i.e., anti-slavery) advocates.
[edit] Lemon Grove, California
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Massachusetts Avenue connects University Avenue and Lemon Grove Avenue in the San Diego, California suburb of Lemon Grove. The Massachusetts Avenue Station on the Orange Line of the San Diego Trolley is located at the latter intersection.
[edit] Washington, D.C.
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Massachusetts Avenue is a diagonal avenue which traverses the city from Southern Avenue, Southeast to Western Avenue, Northwest in the District of Columbia, and continuing through Bethesda, Maryland signed as Maryland State Highway 396 to its terminal intersection with to Goldsboro Road.
It is one of Washington's primary crosstown thoroughfares, as designed to be in Pierre L'Enfant's original plan for the city. It runs roughly in parallel to Pennsylvania Avenue which lies to the south. It is the longest street in Washington but its path is interrupted by the Anacostia River as there is no bridge crossing there. Amtrak's large, beautiful Union Station is on the Avenue, and further west the section running between Dupont Circle and Ward Circle is known as Embassy Row for the large numbers of foreign embassies located there, as well as the U.S. Naval Observatory with adjacent U.S. Vice President's House, and the Islamic Center. American University is also located off of Massachusetts Avenue NW, owning three of the four corners of Ward Circle.
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