Attraction · 2004
Salmones Salari (The Great Leaper)
A 2004 fountain in Huron Village that takes the salmon's airborne habits as its subject — The Great Leaper, caught mid-jump in a working water feature.
Why it matters
A single canonical record that surfaces on 3 of the network’s properties — the same place, understood through 3 different civic lenses.
Open the full civic recordCurrent pulse, routes, recommendations, and memory
Living object
Now, then, future
Every object is temporal: what it feels like now, what it used to mean, and what it can become next.
Now
Thenquiet enough to notice details. Best now: one good detour.
1876: An 1876 house in Huron Village, one of the quiet residential landmarks in the streets west of Harvard Square.
Future
The next version of this object is whatever story you follow from here.
Current modemidday
Historical echoWilliam Cook House
Connected eventopen story
Pulse
How it feels right now
Current energyquiet enough to notice details
Best nowone good detour
Best timemidday
Huron Village
Rain scoremodest
Indoor escapes within a few blocks.
Laptop friendlinesslow
Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.
Student presencelow
How strongly the nearby graph reads as campus life.
Tourist pressurelow
Fame, landmark pull, and visitor-facing assets.
Historic densitylight
Older records and historical edges around this object.
Serendipityquiet
Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.
Turn this into a walk
Routes with a point of view
What should I see next?
Chosen moves from here
The editor's hand
Human recommendations
Civic memory
What this meant before
20042004Salmones Salari (The Great Leaper) enters the civic record here.1876William Cook HouseAn 1876 house in Huron Village, one of the quiet residential landmarks in the streets west of Harvard Square.1878Edward Dodge HouseHouse from 1878 in Huron Village, part of the neighborhood's stock of documented nineteenth-century residences west of Harvard Square.1884Robert Frost HouseThe 1884 house on Brewster Street where Robert Frost lived in his later years, a modest address for the era's most public American poet.
- Established
- 2004
- Graph connections
- 1
Plan your visit
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In the graph 1 relationships — first-class data, not links
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NearbyA few minutes’ walk away
Also in Huron VillageShares a neighborhood
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One record, 3 framings cross-property publishing — never duplicated
How we know graph confidence — we explain our certainty, not just assert it
✓Source qualityBest source is primary / institutional
○Independent corroboration1 source
✓Human-reviewedEditorially verified
✓Institutional backingCites a primary or institutional source
○Record completeness60% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
data.cambridgema.gov (Public Art Collection) Primary / institutional
Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count
Relationship density13
1 connection
Record coverage52
metadata completeness
Graph authority27
centrality + reach + trust
Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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