Asa Gray House

The Asa Gray House, recorded in an HABS survey as the Garden House, is a historic house at 88 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. A National Historic Landmark, it is notable architecturally as the earliest known work of the designer and architect Ithiel Town, and historically as the residence of several Harvard College luminaries.

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Type: House
Description: historic house in Massachusetts, United States
Also known as: “Garden House” and “William Dandridge Peck House”
Address: 88 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Harvard College Observatory and Taylor Square Firehouse.

Harvard College Observatory

Observatory

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The Harvard College Observatory is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Harvard University Department of Astronomy. Harvard College Observatory is situated 530 feet south of Asa Gray House.

Taylor Square Firehouse

Fire station

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The Taylor Square Firehouse is an historic fire station at 113 Garden Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The stylistically eclectic brick building was built in 1904 to a design by local architect Charles R. Taylor Square Firehouse is situated 670 feet northwest of Asa Gray House.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Museum

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The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is situated 3,900 feet southeast of Asa Gray House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Cambridge Historic District and Huron Village.

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.

Huron Village

Neighborhood

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Huron Village is a neighborhood.

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.

Asa Gray House

Categories: single-family detached home, building, and residential building
Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.38298° or 42° 22′ 59″ north

Longitude

-71.12803° or 71° 7′ 41″ west

Levels

Open location code

87JC9VMC+5Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29724871

OpenStreetMap feature

building=detached

Wikidata ID

Q4803125

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In Other Languages

“Asa Gray House” goes by many names.

French: “Asa Gray House”

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Highlights include Gray Garden West and Taylor Square.

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