Edwin Abbot House

Edwin Abbot House
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′41″N 71°7′27″W / 42.37806°N 71.12417°W / 42.37806; -71.12417Coordinates: 42°22′41″N 71°7′27″W / 42.37806°N 71.12417°W / 42.37806; -71.12417
Built 1889
Architect Longfellow,Alden & Harlow
Architectural style Other, Romanesque
Part of Follen Street Historic District (#86001681)
NRHP Reference #

79000354

[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP May 10, 1979
Designated CP May 19, 1986

The Edwin Abbot House, also known as the Zabriskie House, is an historic house at 1 Follen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The large 2.5 story granite Richardsonian Romanesque house was built in 1889 to a design by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow for lawyer and railroad executive Edwin Hale Abbot (1834–1927). It has been home to the Longy School of Music of Bard College since 1937.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979,[1] and included in the Follen Street Historic District in 1986.[2]

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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 Edwin Abbot House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-05.


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