Cabot House - Cabot Hall
Address100, Walker Street, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, 02138
Site Number510D
Alternate Names
Ella Lyman Cabot Hall
Building Root Number
03226
Architect (Original)
Ames & Dodge
Land Acquired
1900
Constructed 1936
Building Acquired 1936
Constructed 1936
Building Acquired 1936
StatusActive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named after Thomas Dudley Cabot (A.B. 1919) and Virginia Wellington Cabot and for Ella Lyman Cabot (1855-1934), a cousin of Cabot, a member of the Radcliffe Governing Board, and a Radcliffe trustee from 1902 to 1934.Historical NotesCabot Hall was built in 1936, designed by Ames and Dodge as a residence hall for Radcliffe College. Today it is part of Cabot House, one of Harvard's twelve undergraduate residential communities.Additional InformationMcGrath, Mary. A Structural Analysis of Cabot Hall, 1942, Schlesinger Library call number Radcliffe College Theses 104.10.
Records of Cabot House 1971-1983, Harvard University Archives call number UAV 255.10.
“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.
“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.
“Radcliffe Names New Dormitory.” Cambridge Chronicle, 8 Apr. 1937, p. 19.
“Radcliffe Names South House for the Cabots.” Harvard Gazette, 10 Feb. 1984.
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/.
This building has been designated by the University Planning Office as having a Notable Interior.
