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Cabot House
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Cabot House

AddressCambridge, MA, United States of America, 02138
Site Number510
Alternate Names South House
Building Root Number 03220
Architect (Original)
Constructed 1894-1936
StatusActive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named after Thomas Dudley Cabot (A.B. 1919) and Virginia Wellington Cabot, the site's benefactors. Thomas Cabot served on the Harvard board of Overseers from 1953 to 1959 and from 1962 to 1968. Cabot was also a Radcliffe trustee from 1947 to 1978.Historical NotesCabot House encompasses all of the building's which make up the Cabot House complex on the south side of the Radcliffe Quadrangle.
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“Barnard Hall. Description of the Proposed Radcliffe Dormitory to Be Erected at a Cost of $125,000.” Cambridge Tribune, 14 Dec. 1912, p. 20.
“A New Dormitory. Radcliffe Structure to Be Erected on Walker & Shepard Streets-Barnard Hall.” Cambridge Tribune, 7 Dec. 1912, p. 10.
“Radcliffe Names South House for the Cabots.” Harvard Gazette, 10 Feb. 1984.
“Le Baron R. Briggs Hall, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.” Architectural Record, vol. 57, no. January, 1925, pp. 55–60.
“Radcliffe College Plans to Erect a New Dormitory.” Cambridge Tribune, 30 June 1923, p. 1.
Radcliffe College Architectural Drawings, 1885-2006. (1885). Schlesinger Library call number RGXXXIII
“New Dormitory for Radcliffe.” Cambridge Chronicle, 26 Jan. 1907, p. 7.
“College Begins Eliot Hall Renovations.” The Harvard Crimson, 22 July 1986, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1986/7/22/college-begins-eliot-hall-renovations-pfollowing/.
“Ella Lyman Cabot Hall Opened To 72 in Radcliffe’s Quadrangle.” Daily Boston Globe, 26 Sept. 1937, p. 23.
McGrath, Mary. A Structural Analysis of Cabot Hall, 1942, Schlesinger Library call number Radcliffe College Theses 104.10.
“Radcliffe to Have New Residence Hall.” Cambridge Tribune, 4 Dec. 1936, p. 7.
“New Hall at Radcliffe: Dormitory Is a Memorial to Ella Lyman Cabot.” New York Times, 1937, p. 5N.
“Name Selected for Radcliffe Dormitory.” Cambridge Tribune, 2 Apr. 1937, p. 4.
“New Dormitory for Radcliffe.” Cambridge Tribune, 22 May 1936, p. 1.
“Radcliffe College Breaks Ground For Its New Dormitory: Radcliffe to Add New Residence Hall.” The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 1936, p. 13.
“Dormitory Ground Broken at Radcliffe: New Residence Hall to House 72 Students Is to Be Ready by Next Fall.” New York Times, 1936, p. N3.
General information by and about Briggs Hall, Harvard University Archives call number HUB1236.2.
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“A New Building at Radcliffe.” The Harvard Crimson, 28 Sept. 1900, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1900/9/28/a-new-building-at-radcliffe-pmrs/.
“Cornerstone Laid Monday for New Radcliffe Dormitory.” Cambridge Chronicle, 25 Oct. 1924, p. 12.
“Radcliffe’s First Dormitory: Bertram Hall Will Mark New Departure at The Cambridge College.” Boston Daily Globe, 14 June 1901, p. 11.
“Hall of Residence.” Cambridge Tribune, 16 Mar. 1901, p. 1.
Records of Cabot House 1971-1983, Harvard University Archives call number UAV 255.10.
Letters Concerning the Bequest of Barnard Hall, Schlesinger Library call number RA.A/B259.
“New Radcliffe Dormitory.” Cambridge Tribune, 13 Sept. 1913, p. 7.
“New Radcliffe Dormitory Ready for Fall Term.” Cambridge Chronicle, 27 Sept. 1913, p. 20.
Cliff, Mary F. “So Long, SoHo: South House Gets New Name, Large Gift.” The Harvard Crimson, 9 Feb. 1984, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1984/2/9/so-long-soho-south-house-gets/.
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Records of Whitman Hall, 1910, Schlesinger Library call number RA.A/W615.
Sonenberg, Nina E. “Cabot’s Briggs Hall Opens After Facelift.” Harvard Crimson, 3 Feb. 1986, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1986/2/3/cabots-briggs-hall-opens-after-facelift/.
“Whitman Hall.” Cambridge Tribune, 2 Dec. 1911, p. 10.
“New Radcliffe Dormitory.” Cambridge Chronicle, 2 Dec. 1911, p. 13.
“Radcliffe’s New Dormitory.” Boston Evening Transcript, 21 Nov. 1911, p. 12.
“New Hall at Radcliffe: Will Accommodate Fifty More Students When It Opens In September.” New York Times, 1912, p. X7.
“New Radcliffe Dormitory.” Boston Globe, 23 Nov. 1911, p. 13.
“Grace Hopkinson Eliot Hall.” Cambridge Tribune, 30 Nov. 1907, p. 12.
“Grace Hopkinson Eliot Hall: New Residence Hall at Radcliffe Named for the Wife of Pres Eliot of Harvard--Is the Gift of Mrs David P. Kimball of Boston.” Boston Daily Globe, 24 Nov. 1907, p. 40.
“Grace Hopkinson Eliot Hall.” Cambridge Chronicle, 13 Apr. 1907, p. 14.
“Radcliffe’s New Building.” Cambridge Chronicle, 27 July 1907, p. 31.
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