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