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Josiah Coolidge House

Coordinates: 42°22′27″N 71°8′18″W / 42.37417°N 71.13833°W / 42.37417; -71.13833
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Josiah Coolidge House
Josiah Coolidge House is located in Massachusetts
Josiah Coolidge House
Josiah Coolidge House is located in the United States
Josiah Coolidge House
LocationCambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°22′27″N 71°8′18″W / 42.37417°N 71.13833°W / 42.37417; -71.13833
Built1822
Architectural styleFederal
MPSCambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.83000795 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 30, 1983

The Josiah Coolidge House is an historic house at 24 Coolidge Hill Road in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Located on a drumlin overlooking the Charles River, this architecturally eclectic house was built in the 1820s, and was the farmhouse of the last working farm in the city. The farmlands were developed around the turn of the 20th century, and the house underwent significant alterations around 1900. In its present configuration it is 2+12 stories in height and five bays wide, with a jerkin-headed side gable roof pierced by gable dormers, and projecting sections (left one angled, right one squared) under a flat roof.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Josiah Coolidge House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-09.