The Robert Frost House is an historic house in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston ...
. It consists of four wood-frame townhouses, stories in height, arranged in mirror image styling. Each pair of units has a porch providing access to those units, supported by turned posts and with a low Stick style balustrade. The Queen Anne/Stick style frame house was built in 1884, and has gables decorated with a modest amount of Gothic-style bargeboard. The house was home to poet
Robert Frost for the last two decades of his life.
The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1982.
It remains a private home.
See also
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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The Frost Place
The Frost Place is a museum and nonprofit educational center for poetry located at Robert Frost's former home on Ridge Road in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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in Franconia, NH
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Robert Frost Farm (Derry, New Hampshire)
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Robert Frost Farm (Ripton, Vermont)
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Robert Frost
Houses completed in 1884
Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
Stick-Eastlake architecture in the United States
Frost, Robert House
1884 establishments in Massachusetts
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