Cloverden
Cloverden | |
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Location | 29 Follen St., Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°22′48″N 71°7′18″W / 42.38000°N 71.12167°WCoordinates: 42°22′48″N 71°7′18″W / 42.38000°N 71.12167°W |
Built | 1837 |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
Part of | Follen Street Historic District (#86001681) |
MPS | Cambridge MRA |
NRHP Reference # | [1] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | June 30, 1983 |
Designated CP | May 19, 1986 |
Cloverden is an historic house at 29 Follen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, two asymmetrically placed chimneys, and clapboard siding. A single-story porch extends across the front, supported by Doric columns. The Greek Revival house was built in 1837.[2]
The house served as bachelor housing for Harvard University faculty in the 1850s, and was known as a center of hospitality where "the famous 'Roman Banquet' was given", according to William Watson Goodwin.[3] Prominent occupants include geology professor Josiah Dwight Whitney, and Mary Mann, the mother of education reform proponent Horace Mann.[2]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
See also
References
- 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- 1 2 "MACRIS inventory record for Clover Den". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
- ↑ "Song for Hard Times", Harvard Magazine, May–June 2009