Houghton Library

Houghton Library is a library in , , . Access is restricted and requires permission. Houghton Library is situated nearby to the arts center , as well as near .
library.harvard.edu
+1 617 495 2440

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fogg Museum and Harvard Art Museums.

Museum
Photo: Daderot, Public domain.
The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the , 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. is situated 490 feet northeast of Houghton Library.

Museum
Photo: Daderot, Public domain.
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 600 feet northeast of Houghton Library.

Arts center
The at Harvard University, in , is the only building designed primarily by Le Corbusier in the United States—he contributed to the design of the —and one of only two in the Americas. is situated 480 feet east of Houghton Library.

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.

Neighborhood
, formerly known as Agassiz and also called Harvard North, Area 8 or Agassiz/Baldwin, is one of the thirteen neighborhoods of , United States.

Houghton Library

Latitude
42.37319° or 42° 22′ 24″ north
Longitude
-71.11594° or 71° 6′ 57″ west
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
Inception
1942
Operator
Harvard University
Named after
Arthur Houghton
Open location code
87JC9VFM+7J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 29633581
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­library
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­university
Geo­Names ID
4939976
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Houghton Library” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مكتبة هوتون”
  • Catalan: “Biblioteca Houghton”
  • Chinese: “霍顿图书馆”
  • Dutch: “Houghton Library”
  • French: “Houghton library. Cambridge”
  • German: “Houghton Library”
  • Greek: “Βιβλιοθήκη Χούτον”
  • Irish: “Leabharlann Houghton”
  • Italian: “Biblioteca Houghton”
  • Japanese: “ホートン図書館”
  • Macedonian: “Хаутонска библиотека”
  • Polish: “Houghton Library”
  • Russian: “Хоутонская библиотека”
  • Slovenian: “Houghton Library”
  • Swedish: “Houghton Library”

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