F. A. Kennedy Steam Bakery



The F. A. Kennedy Steam Bakery is a historic bakery at 129 Franklin Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts that first produced the Fig Newton in 1891.

History
The building was constructed in 1875. The well-known baked good that originated at the Kennedy Steam Bakery was the Fig Newtons. The bakery was purchased by Nabisco and later converted into an apartment building that is part of the University Park at MIT development. The Bakery building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.