Mather House
Mather House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. Opened in 1970, it is named after Increase Mather, a Puritan in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who served as President of Harvard University from 1681 to 1701.- Type: University building
- Description: residential House of Harvard College
- Address: MA
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 2,200 feet northwest of Mather 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 2,100 feet north of Mather House.
Fogg Museum
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. Fogg Museum is situated 2,000 feet north of Mather 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.
Cambridge
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Cambridge is a city in Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Boston. It is renowned as the home of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both widely considered to be among the best universities in the world.
Mather House
- Categories: architectural structure, building, and education
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.36842° or 42° 22′ 6″ northLongitude
-71.11528° or 71° 6′ 55″ westElevation
13 feet (4 metres)Open location code
87JC9V9M+9VOpenStreetMap ID
way 29681544OpenStreetMap feature
building=university
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In Other Languages
“Mather House” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “哈佛大學馬瑟捨堂”
- Chinese: “哈佛大學馬瑟舍堂”
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