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Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House

Coordinates: 42°22′49″N 71°7′50″W / 42.38028°N 71.13056°W / 42.38028; -71.13056
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Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House is located in Massachusetts
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House is located in the United States
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House
Location29 Buckingham Street,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°22′49″N 71°7′50″W / 42.38028°N 71.13056°W / 42.38028; -71.13056
Built1880
Architectural styleQueen Anne
MPSCambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.82001948[1]
Added to NRHPApril 13, 1982

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]

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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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ Wilson, Susan. Literary Trail of Greater Boston. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000: 119. ISBN 0-618-05013-2
  3. ^ 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.