Cloverden Explained

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: MACRIS inventory record for Clover Den. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2015-05-23.
  2. http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/05/song-hard-times "Song for Hard Times"