Barker Center

Barker Center is an university building in City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts which is located on Quincy Street. Barker Center is situated nearby to the university building Dana-Palmer House, as well as near Beck-Warren House.

Type: University building
Also known as: “Freshman Union”, “Harvard Union”, and “Varsity Club”
Address: 12 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 480 feet north of Barker Center.

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 570 feet north of Barker Center.

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 370 feet north of Barker Center.

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.

Barker Center

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

42.37262° or 42° 22′ 21″ north

Longitude

-71.11452° or 71° 6′ 52″ west

Inception

1901

Named after

Robert R. Barker

Open location code

87JC9VFP+25

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29684648

OpenStreetMap feature

building=university

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