Cloverden is an historic house at 29 Follen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a 2+1⁄2-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 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.[3] Prominent occupants include geology professor 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
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Follen Street Historic District
References
- ^ a b “National Register Information System”. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b “MACRIS inventory record for Clover Den”. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
- ^ “Song for Hard Times”, Harvard Magazine, May–June 2009