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2009 Bicycle Tour of Historic Somerville  
by Ron Newman

The way points of this bicycle route:

START - Somerville City Hall

Exit parking lot, right on Highland Ave

125 Highland - Masonic Hall and Iglesias de Restauración - formerly First Universalist Church

130 Highland - Mission Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ, formerly First Unitarian Church

Right on Sycamore St

Right on Medford St

399 Medford St - St. Ann's Church (Roman Catholic) and Rectory

Left on Thurston st

52 Thurston St - St Ann's School

58 Thurston St - St Ann's Convent

Left on Evergreen Ave

Right on Sycamore St

Left on Forster St

Right on Central St

201 Central St - Temple B'nai Brith

404 Broadway - Vida Real church, formerly Broadway Winter Hill Congregational

Right on Broadway

Left on Fenwick St

Right on Heath St

30 Temple St - Evangelical Haitian Church of Somerville, originally Somerville Evangelical Association Church (and later a martial arts studio)

Left on Temple St

100 Temple St - Missionary Church of the Haitian Community, formerly St Polycarp's (Roman Catholic)

114 Temple St - former St Polycarp's Rectory, now Just-A-Start home for young single mothers with children

Right on Mystic Ave

Right on Fellsway West

66 Fellsway West - Christ Episcopal Church (also Temple Adventiste du 7eme Jour Shekinah and Communidad Batista Shalom International de Somerville)

Left on Broadway

Right on Hathorn St

25 Hathorn St - St. Benedict's (Roman Catholic)

Right on Arlington St

Left on Franklin St

Right on Webster St

Cross Glen St into ESCS parking lot

Ride around East Somerville Community School

Exit schoolyard, left on Cross St

59 Cross St - Iglesia Adventista de Septimo dia de Somerville, and Eglise Baptiste Eben-Ezer; originally Perkins Street Baptist Church

Left on Tufts St (138 Cross St - former First Universalist Church, later Cross Street Orpheum theatre, later Bennett Plumbing Supply, now Sanctuary Condominiums)

Right on Washington St

Right into Union Square

Straight on Washington St

264 Washington St / 13 Webster Ave - St. Joseph's (Roman Catholic)

Right on Hawkins St

Right on Somerville Ave

300 Somerville Ave - Foursquare Church, originally St. Thomas' Episcopal Church (and later Walnut Street Center)

Left to Bow Street

17 Bow St - former Prospect Hill Congregational Church, now condos

1 Summer St - former First Methodist Church, now condos

Bow St merges onto Somerville Ave

Left at end of Market Basket parking lot

Right into unnamed alley behind industrial buildings

Left on Dane St

Immediate right on Tyler St

Right on Properzi Way

8 Properzi Way - St. Anthony of Padua (Roman Catholic)

Left on Somerville Ave

Right on Central St

Right into parking lot

29 Central St - Dormition of the Virgin Mary (Greek Orthodox)

Exit parking lot, straight onto Cleveland St

Left on Harvard St

Right on Atherton St

Left on Spring St

Right on Pitman St

Left on Belmont St

Right on Somerville Ave

Bear right on Elm St

Right on Linden Ave

Left on Summer St

Right on Hancock St

Straight into Lexington Park

Left on Community Path

Right on Willow Ave

Left on Morrison Ave

45 College Ave - Eglise Baptiste de la Bible, formerly Third Universalist Church

Right on College Ave

64 College Ave - United Methodist Church

89 College Ave - First Church Somerville (Congregational/UCC)

113 College Ave - Havurat Shalom (Jewish)

Right into Nathan Tufts (Powder House) Park

Through south edge of park, left on Liberty Ave

Immediate right on Mallet St

Right on Willow Ave

Left on Kidder Ave

Right on Highland Road

Left on Community Path

Right on Cedar St

Immediate left on Alpine St

Fork right to stay on Alpine St

Right on Lowell St

Immediate left on Woodbine St

Left into Somerville Junction Park

Exit park into parking lot

Right on Central St

Right on Cambria St

Left on Benton Road

Right on Summer St

179 Summer St - St. Catherine of Genoa (Roman Catholic)

Turn around through parking lot

Right on Summer St

Left on Benton Road

Right on Westwood Road

END - Somerville Museum, One Westwood Road

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Theme is churches and religious buildings. Tour will start at 2 pm, Sunday, May 31 at Somerville City Hall

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