Edwin Abbot House
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The Edwin Abbot House is an historic house at 1 Follen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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The house was built in 1889 by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow
for lawyer and railroad executive Edwin Hale Abbot
(1834–1927). It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and is now occupied by the Longy School of Music
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
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The house was built in 1889 by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow
Longfellow, Alden & Harlow
Longfellow, Alden & Harlow , of Boston, Massachusetts, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the architectural firm of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr. , Frank Ellis Alden , and Alfred Branch Harlow . The firm, successors to H. H...
for lawyer and railroad executive Edwin Hale Abbot
Edwin Hale Abbot
Edwin Hale Abbot was a lawyer and railroad executive, active in Boston and Milwaukee.Abbot was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, educated at Harvard University , and practiced law in Boston from 1862-1876. In 1873 Abbot was named general solicitor and a director of the Wisconsin Central Railway...
(1834–1927). It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and is now occupied by the Longy School of Music
Longy School of Music
The Longy School of Music of Bard College is a conservatory located near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1915, it was one of the four independent degree-granting music schools in the Boston region along with the New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, and Boston...
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