Cloverden | |
Location: | 29 Follen St., Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Coordinates: | 42.3791°N -71.1211°W |
Built: | 1837 |
Architecture: | Greek Revival |
Added: | June 30, 1983 |
Mpsub: | Cambridge MRA |
Refnum: | 83000793 |
Nrhp Type2: | cp |
Nocat: | yes |
Designated Nrhp Type2: | May 19, 1986 |
Partof: | Follen Street Historic District |
Partof Refnum: | 86001681 |
Cloverden is an historic house at 29 Follen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a -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.[1]
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.[2] Prominent occupants include geology professor Josiah Dwight Whitney, and Mary Mann, the mother of education reform proponent Horace Mann.[1]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.