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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) Unknown
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.Additional Information
Radcliffe College Architectural Drawings, 1885-2006. (1885). Schlesinger Library call number RGXXXIII
“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.
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/.
“Radcliffe Names South House for the Cabots.” Harvard Gazette, 10 Feb. 1984.
“A New Dormitory. Radcliffe Structure to Be Erected on Walker & Shepard Streets-Barnard Hall.” Cambridge Tribune, 7 Dec. 1912, p. 10.
“Barnard Hall. Description of the Proposed Radcliffe Dormitory to Be Erected at a Cost of $125,000.” Cambridge Tribune, 14 Dec. 1912, p. 20.
“New Radcliffe Dormitory.” Cambridge Tribune, 13 Sept. 1913, p. 7.
“New Radcliffe Dormitory Ready for Fall Term.” Cambridge Chronicle, 27 Sept. 1913, p. 20.
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.
“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.
“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.
General information by and about Briggs Hall, Harvard University Archives call number HUB1236.2.
“Radcliffe Names New Dormitory.” Cambridge Chronicle, 8 Apr. 1937, p. 19.
“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.
“Name Selected for Radcliffe Dormitory.” Cambridge Tribune, 2 Apr. 1937, p. 4.
“New Dormitory for Radcliffe.” Cambridge Tribune, 22 May 1936, p. 1.
“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.
“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.
“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/.
“Grace Hopkinson Eliot Hall.” Cambridge Chronicle, 13 Apr. 1907, p. 14.
“Radcliffe’s New Building.” Cambridge Chronicle, 27 July 1907, p. 31.
“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.
“New Radcliffe Dormitory.” Boston Globe, 23 Nov. 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.
“Whitman Hall.” Cambridge Tribune, 2 Dec. 1911, p. 10.
“New Radcliffe Dormitory.” Cambridge Chronicle, 2 Dec. 1911, p. 13.
“Plan of Radcliffe’s Sarah Whitman Hall Finally Announced.” The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 1911, pp. 1–2.
Records of Whitman Hall, 1910, Schlesinger Library call number RA.A/W615.
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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