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Blue’s Bed and Breakfast
82 Avon Hill Street
Cambridge, MAblues bed and breakfast, cambridge ma near the harvard observatory

Whether you're in the Cambridge area for a conference or business, sightseeing, or visiting a son or daughter at college, this comfortable antiques-filled 11-room 1910 house in Cambridge's Avon Hill conservation district is your quiet, friendly home-away-from-home.

Just a few minutes' walk from the Porter Square subway station, Blue's Bed and Breakfast is conveniently located near the Harvard Observatory, Center for Astrophysics (CfA and Radcliffe Quad area), Harvard and Lesley Universities, with Tufts, MIT, and downtown Boston just a quick 'T' or train ride away.

blues bed and breakfast, cambridge ma near the harvard observatoryBlue's Bed and Breakfast, once the home of "L'il Abner" cartoonist Al Capp, offers two big, sunny, and comfortable guest rooms. A healthy, home-cooked breakfast is served in the formal dining room or on the shady garden terrace, weather permitting.

  • Queen, king or twin-sized, comfortable beds with firm mattresses

  • Computer with high-speed internet access available in the library for use by guests

  • Free wireless Internet access in rooms

  • Air-conditioned guest rooms; (or fans and through breezes, if you prefer)

  • Television, alarm clock, hair-dryer in room; private phone line
    in Fireplace Room

  • Off-street garage parking, or on-street with visitor pass

  • Fine restaurants, theater, museums, art galleries, live music,
    movies, and wonderful shopping all within easy walking distance

  • Affordable rates

After more than 2 decades, Innkeeper Blue Magruder left Earthwatch Institute to join the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Her house is filled with folk art from her Earthwatch research expedition travel. Her husband, also a Harvard alum, John Hurwitch, is a retired health-care consultant, an avid sailor, and collector of photography and maritime books.

 

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