Charles Sullivan

Executive Director

Cambridge Historical Commission


Charles Sullivan holds an AB in Geography from Dartmouth College and a Master of City Planning degree from Harvard University. He moved to Cambridge in 1965 and has lived in North Cambridge since 1978.

Mr. Sullivan has been Executive Director of the Cambridge Historical Commission since 1974. He is co-author of A Photographic History of Cambridge (1984), Maintaining Your Old House in Cambridge 1988), and Building Old Cambridge: Architecture & Development (MIT Press, 2016). He has conducted design review of dozens of projects in all neighborhoods of Cambridge, including significant buildings in Kendall Square that are the subject of this tour.