Cloverden

Coordinates: 42°22′44.6″N 71°07′16″W / 42.379056°N 71.12111°W / 42.379056; -71.12111
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Cloverden
MPS
Cambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.83000793 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJune 30, 1983
Designated CPMay 19, 1986

Cloverden is an historic house at 29 Follen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a 2+12-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.[2]

The house served as bachelor housing for

Josiah Dwight Whitney, and Mary Mann, the mother of education reform proponent Horace Mann.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "MACRIS inventory record for Clover Den". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
  3. ^ "Song for Hard Times", Harvard Magazine, May–June 2009