Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House Explained

Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House
Coordinates:42.3803°N -71.1306°W
Built:1880
Architecture:Queen Anne
Added:April 13, 1982
Mpsub:Cambridge MRA
Refnum:82001948

The Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is named after author, minister, and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who had it built and lived there for a time.[1]

The house was built in 1880 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was the first home that Higginson ever owned. As he wrote to his sister shortly after moving in, "It is such inexpressible happiness to have at last a permanent home."[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Wilson, Susan. Literary Trail of Greater Boston. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000: 119.
  2. Brenda Wineapple. White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. New York: Knopf, 2008: 226–227. .