Cloverden

Year: 1837
Style: Greek Revival
City: Boston, MA

Cloverden is an 1837 Greek Revival house at 29 Follen Street in Cambridge, a two-and-a-half-story wood-frame building with a side-gable roof and a Doric-columned porch across its front. In the 1850s it served as bachelor housing for Harvard University faculty and was known as a center of hospitality, the site of what William Watson Goodwin called the "Roman Banquet."

the building

Doric porch. A single-story porch supported by Doric columns runs the width of the five-bay facade, with two asymmetrically placed chimneys along the roofline behind it.

the style

The Doric-columned porch and clapboard siding are textbook Greek Revival, a style that dominated New England domestic building in the 1830s.

significance

Prominent occupants included geology professor Josiah Dwight Whitney and Mary Mann, mother of education reformer Horace Mann; the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

nearby

Building at 10 Follen Street 0.1 mi · Stick Style · 1875
Grace Hopkinson Eliot Hall 0.2 mi · Colonial Revival · 1907
Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church 0.2 mi · Richardsonian Romanesque · 1891
Edwin Abbot House 0.2 mi · Richardsonian Romanesque · 1889
J. A. Wood House 0.2 mi · Colonial Revival
Austin Hall 0.2 mi

All 282 buildings in Boston