Treadwell-Sparks House

The Treadwell-Sparks House is an historic house at 21 Kirkland Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1838, it is a good local example of Greek Revival architecture, further notable as the home of historian Jared Sparks.

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Type: House
Description: historic house in Massachusetts, United States
Also known as: “48 Quincy Street” and “Sparks House”
Address: 21 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard Museum of Natural History.

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 510 feet north of Treadwell-Sparks House.

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Museum

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The Harvard Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Museum of Natural History is situated 630 feet north of Treadwell-Sparks 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 990 feet south of Treadwell-Sparks House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Baldwin and Mid-Cambridge.

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.

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.

Treadwell-Sparks 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

42.37681° or 42° 22′ 37″ north

Longitude

-71.11504° or 71° 6′ 54″ west

Elevation

20 feet (6 metres)

Inception

1966

Named after

Jared Sparks

Open location code

87JC9VGM+PX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29725422

OpenStreetMap feature

building=house

Wikidata ID

Q7836583

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