The Cambridge Center for Adult Education (CCAE), a non-profit corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

, has been teaching adult education courses at 42 Brattle Street

Brattle Street (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, called the "King's Highway" or "Tory Row" before the American Revolutionary War, is the site of many buildings of historic interest, including the modernist glass-and-concrete building that housed the Design Research store,and a Georgian mansion where...

 since taking over the building from the Cambridge Social Union in 1938. The Cambridge Social Union, founded in 1876, also taught many classes for adults in the same building.

The CCAE is housed in two historic buildings, the William Brattle House

William Brattle House

The William Brattle House is an historic house at 42 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of the seven Colonial mansions described by historian Samuel Atkins Eliot as making up Tory Row.-History:...

 (1727) at 42 Brattle Street and the Dexter Pratt House

Dexter Pratt House

Dexter Pratt House is an historic house at 54 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.The house was built in 1808 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Dexter Pratt was the village blacksmith that inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Village Blacksmith"...

(1808) at 54 Brattle Street.

Course offerings

In the spring semester of 2011, the CCAE offered courses in the following areas:

• Arts
• Business
• Computers
• Crafts
• Dance
• ESL
• Events
• Fiber Arts
• Film, Photography and Video
• Food
• Fun and Games
• History and Contemporary Issues
• Homes and Gardens
• Investing
• Languages
• Lecture Series
• Life Issues
• Literature
• Mind and Body
• Music
• Science, Philosophy and Religion
• Sports and Exercise
• Theater
• Travel
• Wine and Spirits
• Work Life
• Writing