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| Location | 181-183 Sherman Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°23′32.9″N71°07′58.6″W / 42.392472°N 71.132944°W |
| Built | 1750 |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| MPS | Cambridge MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 82001984 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 13, 1982 |
The Abraham Watson House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a gable roof that has a gambrel front. It was built c. 1750 by Abraham Watson, Jr., who was politically active during the American Revolution. The house features, including molded surrounds on the windows, indicate that Watson was a man of substance. The house is one of only two colonial houses standing in North Cambridge, and is the oldest house in the city outside Old Cambridge. [2]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1982. [1]
Massachusetts Hall is the oldest surviving building at Harvard College, the first institution of higher learning in the British colonies in America, and second oldest academic building in the United States after the Wren Building at the College of William & Mary. As such, it possesses great significance not only in the history of American education but also in the story of the developing English Colonies of the 18th century. Massachusetts Hall was designed by Harvard Presidents John Leverett and his successor Benjamin Wadsworth. It was erected between 1718 and 1720 in Harvard Yard. It was originally a dormitory containing 32 chambers and 64 small private studies for the 64 students it was designed to house. During the siege of Boston, 640 American soldiers took quarters in the hall. Much of the interior woodwork and hardware, including brass doorknobs, disappeared at this time.
The Abraham Browne House is a colonial house located at 562 Main Street, Watertown, Massachusetts, US. It is now a nonprofit museum operated by Historic New England and open to the public two afternoons per year.
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