Treadwell-Sparks House

Treadwell-Sparks House
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′36″N 71°6′56″W / 42.37667°N 71.11556°W / 42.37667; -71.11556Coordinates: 42°22′36″N 71°6′56″W / 42.37667°N 71.11556°W / 42.37667; -71.11556
Built 1838
Architect William Saunders
Architectural style Early Republic, Greek Revival, Other
MPS Cambridge MRA
NRHP Reference #

86002078

[1]
Added to NRHP September 12, 1986

The Treadwell-Sparks House is an historic house at 21 Kirkland Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts owned by Harvard University.

History

The house was built, originally facing Quincy Street, in 1838 by housewright William Saunders for Harvard Professor Daniel Treadwell. Its square plan and three-bay facade was stylistically innovative for the period, with flushboarded walls and wide pilasters dividing the bays. The house was purchased in 1848 by Nathaniel Silsbee for his daughter, who was married to historian Jared Sparks.[2]

The house was purchased from Sparks' heirs by the New Church Theological School and served as the New England training center for Swedenborgian ministers. In 1901 Langford Warren, architect and member of the General Convention of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian), designed and oversaw the construction of a chapel, rotating the house and moving it a short distance on its lot.[2]

In the 1960s, the building was sold back to Harvard and the New Church Theological School moved to Newton, MA.[3] The structure was moved in 1968 from its original site at 48 Quincy Street to its current location at 21 Kirkland Street in order to make room for the construction of Gund Hall.[4] The house also serves as the private residence of Harvard University's Plummer Professor of Christian Morals.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

See also

References

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  1. 1 2 Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Treadwell-Sparks House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-05-26.
  3. ↑ From Harvard's Graduate School of Design report on the Church of the New Jerusalem (the chapel built in 1901 for the school)
  4. ↑ Bunting, Bainbridge (edited by Margaret Henderson Floyd). Harvard: An Architectural History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998: 240. ISBN 0674372913
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