Dunster House
Dunster House is one of 12 undergraduate residential houses at Harvard University. Built in 1930, it is one of the first two Harvard dormitories constructed under President Abbott Lawrence Lowell's House Plan and one of the seven Houses given to Harvard by Edward Harkness.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Post office
- Description: a dormitory at Harvard University
- Also known as: “Dunster House Mail Center”
- Address: 945 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02138
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Art Museums.
Harvard Kennedy School
University
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The John F. Kennedy School of Government, commonly referred to as the Harvard Kennedy School, is the graduate school of public policy of Harvard University, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Kennedy School is situated 2,000 feet northwest of Dunster House.
Harvard Art Museums
Museum
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The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and four research centers: the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, the Harvard Art Museums Archives, and the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. Harvard Art Museums is situated 2,000 feet north of Dunster House.
Houghton Library
Library
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Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to Widener Library, Lamont Library, and Loeb House, is Harvard University's primary repository for rare books and manuscripts. Houghton Library is situated 1,600 feet north of Dunster House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Riverside and Mid-Cambridge.
Riverside
Neighborhood
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.
Mid-Cambridge
Neighborhood
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.
Cambridge
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Cambridge is a city in Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Boston. It is renowned as the home of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both widely considered to be among the best universities in the world.
Dunster House
- Categories: building and university dormitory
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.36874° or 42° 22′ 8″ northLongitude
-71.11593° or 71° 6′ 57″ westElevation
13 feet (4 metres)Operator
Harvard University Mail ServicesOpen location code
87JC9V9M+FJOpenStreetMap ID
node 12171129825OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=post_officeGeoNames ID
4935201Wikidata ID
Q3716309
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Uzbek—“Dunster House” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “哈佛大學登斯特捨堂”
- Chinese: “哈佛大學登斯特舍堂”
- Dutch: “Dunster House”
- French: “Dunster House”
- Italian: “Dunster House”
- Uzbek: “Dunster uyi”
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