Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the only building designed primarily by Le Corbusier in the United States—he contributed to the design of the United Nations Secretariat Building—and one of only two in the Americas.
- Type: Arts center
- Description: historic building in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Also known as: “Carpenter Center”
- Address: 19 Prescott Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fogg Museum and Harvard Art Museums.
Fogg Museum
Museum
Photo: Daderot, Public domain.Harvard Art Museums
Museum
Photo: Daderot, Public domain.Harvard Film Archive
Arts center
The Harvard Film Archive is a film archive and cinema located in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mid-Cambridge and Riverside.
Mid-Cambridge
Suburb
Mid-Cambridge, also known as "Area 6", is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is bounded by Massachusetts Avenue on the south and west, Prospect Street on the east, and Hampshire Street, the Somerville border, Kirkland Street, Quincy Street, and Cambridge Street on the north.
Riverside
Suburb
Riverside, also known as "Area 7", is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts bounded by Massachusetts Avenue on the north, River Street on the east, the Charles River on the south, and JFK Street on the west.
Baldwin
Neighborhood
Baldwin, formerly known as Agassiz and also called Harvard North, Area 8 or Agassiz/Baldwin, is one of the thirteen neighborhoods of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
- Categories: university building, art institution, building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.37362° or 42° 22′ 25″ north
Longitude
-71.11427° or 71° 6′ 51″ west
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
Operator
Harvard University
Open location code
87JC9VFP+C7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=arts_centre
OpenStreetMap feature
building=university
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Centre Carpenter d’Arts Visuals”
- Chinese: “卡本特视觉艺术中心”
- Chinese: “卡本特視覺藝術中心”
- Dutch: “Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts”
- French: “Carpenter center for the visual arts”
- French: “Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts”
- German: “Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts”
- Italian: “Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts”
- Italian: “Harvard University Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts”
- Japanese: “カーペンター視覚芸術センター”
- Russian: “Центр изобразительных искусств Карпентера”
- Spanish: “Centro de Artes Visuales Carpenter”
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