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Harvard Square Winter Carnival

Cambridge, MA · Holiday

When

February 5–6, 2027

Where

Harvard Square · Cambridge · MA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

The Harvard Square Business Association hosts a weekend market of local crafters selling handmade soaps, jewelry and gifts each February. The carnival brightens the square during the coldest stretch of winter with vendor tents and hot food. It has become an annual fixture for the district.

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..