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.
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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.

University
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The John F. Kennedy School of Government, commonly called the , is the graduate school of public policy of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in , United States. is situated 2,000 feet northwest of Dunster House.

Museum
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The 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 Archives, and the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. is situated 2,000 feet north of Dunster House.

University building
is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. Opened in 1970, it is named after Increase Mather, a Puritan in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who served as President of Harvard University from 1681 to 1701.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Riverside and Mid-Cambridge.

Suburb
, also known as "Area 7", is a neighborhood of bounded by Massachusetts Avenue on the north, River Street on the east, the on the south, and JFK Street on the west.

Suburb
, also known as "Area 6", is a neighborhood of . It is bounded by Massachusetts Avenue on the south and west, Prospect Street on the east, and Hampshire Street, the border, Kirkland Street, Quincy Street, and Cambridge Street on the north.

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is a city in , across the Charles River from . 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

Latitude
42.36874° or 42° 22′ 8″ north
Longitude
-71.11593° or 71° 6′ 57″ west
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
Operator
Harvard University Mail Services
Open location code
87JC9V9M+FJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12171129825
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­post_office
Geo­Names ID
4935201
Wiki­data 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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