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Harvard Square Oktoberfest

Cambridge, MA · Food & Drink

When

October 11, 2026

Where

Harvard Square · Cambridge · MA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A day-long street festival produced by the Harvard Square Business Association, with beer gardens, a parade and live music filling the square. The 2026 edition is the 47th annual, one of Cambridge's longest-running street festivals.

The history within reach

• Harvard College founded0.1 mi

  Harvard College founded was the first institution of higher learning in the colonies, founded to train ministers and named for a clergyman who left it his library of 400 books..

• The Brattle Theatre still projects from behind the screen0.1 mi

  The single screen inside Brattle Hall started showing foreign and repertory films in February 1953 and has not stopped since.

• The Washington Elm, a legend Cambridge kept for a century0.3 mi

  Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge on 3 July 1775, and by the 1830s the town had decided it happened under one particular elm on the Common.

• Old Cambridge Baptist Church, built from Somerville granite0.3 mi

  The congregation broke off from Cambridge's First Baptist Church in 1844 and sold its first meeting house to the Congregationalists.

• Head of the Charles Regatta0.4 mi

  The largest two-day rowing regatta in the world, contested on the Charles River since 1965..