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Robert Frost House
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Location29–35 Brewster Street,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′43.4″N71°07′56.0″W / 42.378722°N 71.132222°W / 42.378722; -71.132222 Coordinates: 42°22′43.4″N71°07′56.0″W / 42.378722°N 71.132222°W / 42.378722; -71.132222
Built1884
Architectural styleQueen Anne, Shingle Style
MPS Cambridge MRA
NRHP reference No. 82001941 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 13, 1982

The Robert Frost House is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It consists of four wood-frame townhouses, 2+12 stories in height, arranged in mirror image styling. Each pair of units has a porch providing access to those units, supported by turned posts and with a low Stick style balustrade. The Queen Anne/Stick style frame house was built in 1884, and has gables decorated with a modest amount of Gothic-style bargeboard. The house was home to poet Robert Frost for the last two decades of his life. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1] It remains a private home.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "MACRIS inventory record for Robert Frost House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-11.