Beck-Warren House
The Beck-Warren House, also known as the Warren House, is a historic house located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now on the campus of Harvard University, this large Greek Revival wood-frame house was built in 1833 for Professor Charles Beck, and was later purchased and adapted by the physically disabled Henry Clarke Warren, a Sanskrit scholar.Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: University building
- Description: building in Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Warren House” and “Warren House - Child Memorial Library”
- Address: 11 Prescott Street
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 360 feet north of Beck-Warren House.
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 440 feet north of Beck-Warren House.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mid-Cambridge and Riverside.
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.
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.
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.
Beck-Warren House
- Categories: house, building, and education
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.37296° or 42° 22′ 23″ northLongitude
-71.11422° or 71° 6′ 51″ westOpen location code
87JC9VFP+58OpenStreetMap ID
way 29725686OpenStreetMap feature
building=universityWikidata ID
Q4878591
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