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.

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 Harvard Art Museums.

Harvard Kennedy School

University

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The John F. Kennedy School of Government, commonly called the Harvard Kennedy School, is the graduate school of public policy of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Harvard Kennedy School is situated 1,500 feet northwest 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.

St. Paul Church

Church

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St. Paul Church is a Catholic church of the Archdiocese of Boston located at 29 Mount Auburn Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. St. Paul Church is situated 630 feet northeast of Leverett House.

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.

Old Cambridge Historic District

Neighborhood

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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″ north

Longitude

-71.11705° or 71° 7′ 1″ west

Elevation

13 feet (4 metres)

Inception

1931

Named after

John Leverett the Younger

Open location code

87JC9V9M+W5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29822739

OpenStreetMap feature

building=university

GeoNames ID

4941901

Wikidata ID

Q14715665

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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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