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Edwin Abbot House
Edwin Abbot House is located in Massachusetts
Edwin Abbot House
LocationCambridge, Massachusetts
Built1889
ArchitectLongfellow,Alden & Harlow
Architectural styleOther, Romanesque
Part ofFollen Street Historic District (ID86001681)
NRHP reference No.79000354 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 10, 1979
Designated CPMay 19, 1986

The Edwin Abbot House, also known as the Zabriskie House, is an historic house at 1 Follen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The large 2.5 story granite Richardsonian Romanesque house was built in 1889 to a design by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow for lawyer and railroad executive Edwin Hale Abbot (1834–1927). It has been home to the Longy School of Music of Bard College since 1937.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979,[1] and included in the Follen Street Historic District in 1986.[2]

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "MACRIS inventory record for Edwin Abbot House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-05.