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Howe House

Architect
Edward Clarke Cabot
Year
1887
Style
Queen Anne
City
Boston, MA
Howe House
Photo: Daderot, Public domain
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The Howe House at 6 Appleton Street in Cambridge is a 2½-story wood-frame house built in 1887 by the firm Cabot & Chandler for Lois Lillie (White) Howe, following the death of her husband Dr. Estes Howe. Her daughter, Lois Lilley Howe, would go on to become one of MIT's first female architecture graduates and the first woman elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, later altering this same house four times over her life.

the style

Designed in the Shingle style with elements of Queen Anne mixed in, typical of high-end Boston-area domestic work of the 1880s.

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the architect

Edward Clarke Cabot, of the noted Boston firm Cabot & Chandler, designed the house in 1887, before his eventual client's daughter Lois Lilley Howe had even begun her own architectural training.

significance

The house is principally significant for its long association with Lois Lilley Howe, who lived here from childhood until 1963, the year before her death, and who personally altered the building in 1907, 1910, 1916, and 1935.

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