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Houghton Library

Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to , , and Loeb House, is Harvard University's primary repository for rare books and manuscripts.
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  • Email: houghton_library@harvard.edu
  • Type: Library
  • Description: library at Harvard University
  • Also known as: “Houghton LIbrary, Harvard”
  • Address: 29, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Harvard Art Museums and Fogg Museum.

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 600 feet northeast of Houghton Library.

Museum
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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.

Library
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, in the southeast corner of Harvard Yard in , houses the Harvard Library's primary undergraduate collection in humanities and social sciences.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Riverside and Mid-Cambridge.

Neighborhood
, 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.

Neighborhood
, 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
Wiki­data ID
Q3719374
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Houghton Library” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مكتبة هوتون”
  • Azerbaijani: “Houghton Kitabxanası”
  • Catalan: “Biblioteca Houghton”
  • Chinese: “霍頓圖書館”
  • Chinese: “霍顿图书馆”
  • Danish: “Houghton Library”
  • Dutch: “Houghton Library”
  • French: “Houghton library. Cambridge, Mass.”
  • French: “Houghton library. Cambridge”
  • French: “Houghton Library”
  • German: “Houghton Library”
  • Greek: “Βιβλιοθήκη Χούτον”
  • Irish: “Leabharlann Houghton”
  • Italian: “Biblioteca Houghton”
  • Japanese: “ホートン・ライブラリー”
  • Japanese: “ホートン図書館”
  • Macedonian: “Хаутонска библиотека”
  • Polish: “Houghton Library”
  • Russian: “Библиотека Хоутона”
  • Russian: “Хоутонская библиотека”
  • Slovenian: “Houghton Library”
  • Swedish: “Houghton Library”

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