Cloverden

Cloverden
Location 29 Follen St., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′48″N 71°7′18″W / 42.38000°N 71.12167°W / 42.38000; -71.12167Coordinates: 42°22′48″N 71°7′18″W / 42.38000°N 71.12167°W / 42.38000; -71.12167
Built 1837
Architectural style Greek Revival
Part of Follen Street Historic District (#86001681)
MPS Cambridge MRA
NRHP Reference #

83000793

[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]

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References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "MACRIS inventory record for Clover Den". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
  3. ↑ "Song for Hard Times", Harvard Magazine, May–June 2009


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