Cloverden

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]

Cloverden
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
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Location	29 Follen St., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′44.6″N 71°07′16″W
Built	1837
Architectural style	Greek Revival
Part of	Follen Street Historic District (ID86001681)
MPS	Cambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.	83000793 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 30, 1983
Designated CP	May 19, 1986

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

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "MACRIS inventory record for Clover Den". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
3. "Song for Hard Times", Harvard Magazine, May–June 2009