Leverett House
Leverett House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. It is situated along the north bank of the Charles River in Cambridge and consists of McKinlock Hall, constructed in 1925; two 12-story towers completed in 1960; and two floors of 20 DeWolfe Street, a building Leverett shares with two other houses at Harvard.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: University building
- Description: residential House of Harvard College
- Address: 28 DeWolfe Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Harvard Kennedy School and Houghton Library.
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 1,500 feet northwest of Leverett 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 1,300 feet north of Leverett 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 1,800 feet northeast of Leverett 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.
Old Cambridge Historic District
Neighborhood
The Old Cambridge Historic District is a historic district encompassing a residential neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts that dates to colonial times.
Leverett House
- Categories: residential college, building, and education
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.3698° or 42° 22′ 11″ northLongitude
-71.11705° or 71° 7′ 1″ westElevation
13 feet (4 metres)Inception
1931Named after
John Leverett the YoungerOpen location code
87JC9V9M+W5OpenStreetMap ID
way 29822739OpenStreetMap feature
building=university
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Uzbek—“Leverett House” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “哈佛大學萊弗里特捨堂”
- Chinese: “哈佛大學萊弗里特舍堂”
- Uzbek: “Leverett uyi”
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