The Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is named after author, minister, and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who had it built and lived there for a time.[2]
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| Location | 29 Buckingham Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°22′49″N 71°7′50″W / 42.38028°N 71.13056°W |
| Built | 1880 |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| MPS | Cambridge MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 82001948[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 13, 1982 |
The house was built in 1880 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1] It was the first home that Higginson ever owned. As he wrote to his sister shortly after moving in, "It is such inexpressible happiness to have at last a permanent home."[3]
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Wilson, Susan. Literary Trail of Greater Boston. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000: 119. ISBN 0-618-05013-2
- ^ Brenda Wineapple. White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. New York: Knopf, 2008: 226–227. ISBN 978-1-4000-4401-6.