Cloverden
Cloverden | |
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| Location | 29 Follen St., Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°22′44.6″N 71°07′16″W / 42.379056°N 71.12111°W |
| Built | 1837 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| Part of | Follen Street Historic District (ID86001681) |
| MPS | Cambridge MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 83000793 [1] |
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| 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]
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References[edit]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b "MACRIS inventory record for Clover Den". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
- ^ "Song for Hard Times", Harvard Magazine, May–June 2009
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