Lamont Library

Lamont Library is a library in City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts which is located on Quincy Street. Access is restricted and requires permission. Lamont Library is situated nearby to the arts center Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, as well as near Fogg Museum.

Access is restricted and requires permission.
Opening hours: 24/7
Email: lamcirc@fas.harvard.edu
Type: Library
Also known as: “Lamont” and “拉蒙特圖書館”
Address: 11 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fogg Museum and Harvard Art Museums.

Fogg Museum

Museum

Photo: Daderot, Public domain.

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. Fogg Museum is situated 510 feet northeast of Lamont Library.

Harvard Art Museums

Museum

Photo: Daderot, Public domain.

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 630 feet northeast of Lamont Library.

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Arts center

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. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is situated 450 feet northeast of Lamont Library.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Riverside and Mid-Cambridge.

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.

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.

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.

Lamont Library

Categories: building, university building, and education
Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.37277° or 42° 22′ 22″ north

Longitude

-71.11548° or 71° 6′ 56″ west

Elevation

39 feet (12 metres)

Inception

1948

Levels

Operator

Harvard University

Named after

Thomas W. Lamont

Open location code

87JC9VFM+4R

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29634503

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=library

OpenStreetMap feature

building=university

GeoNames ID

4941630

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In Other Languages

“Lamont Library” goes by many names.

Chinese: “拉蒙特图书馆”

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