Massachusetts
Middlesex
City of Cambridge

Cooper–Frost–Austin House

The Cooper–Frost–Austin House is a historic Colonial American house, built in 1681. It is located at 21 Linnaean Street, . It is the oldest extant home in Cambridge and is owned and operated as a non-profit museum by Historic New England.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: historic house in Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Cooper-Frost-Austin House”
  • Address: 17 and 21 Linnaean Street

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Harvard College Observatory and Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Observatory
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The is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Harvard University Department of Astronomy. is situated 2,000 feet southwest of Cooper–Frost–Austin House.

Museum
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The is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in , United States. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with particular focus on the ethnography and archaeology of the Americas. is situated 3,000 feet southeast of Cooper–Frost–Austin House.

Museum
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The is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in . is situated 2,800 feet southeast of Cooper–Frost–Austin House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Avon Hill Historic District and Porter Square.

Neighborhood
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The is a residential historic district near in . Set atop Avon Hill southwest of , this subdivision, laid out about 1870, contains a concentration of the finest Victorian and Second Empire residential buildings in the city.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in and , located around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Somerville Avenue, between and Squares.

Neighborhood
, formerly known as Agassiz and also called Harvard North, Area 8 or Agassiz/Baldwin, is one of the thirteen neighborhoods of , United States.

Cooper–Frost–Austin House

Latitude
42.3845° or 42° 23′ 4″ north
Longitude
-71.12183° or 71° 7′ 19″ west
Open location code
87JC9VMH+Q7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 29683759
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q5167733
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