Houghton Library (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
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library, Georgian (architecture), 1940s construction
Library designed c. 1942 by Perry, Shaw & Hepburn of Boston to house Harvard's rare books and manuscripts. Funds were provided by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. build an annex to Widener Library which was connected via a bridge (removed in 2004).
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Coordinates: 42°22'23"N 71°6'57"W
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- Trustees of Reservations Archives & Research Center 28 km
- Cohasset Library 29 km
- George H. and Ella M. Rodgers Memorial Library 54 km
- Coventry Public Library 85 km
- Five College Library Depository 117 km
- Springfield Museums At The Quadrangle 125 km
- U.S. Navy Submarine Force Museum and Library 136 km
- Archdiocesan Center at St. Thomas Seminary 148 km
- Yale University - Lewis Walpole Library 160 km
- Harvard University 0.3 km
- Mid-Cambridge 0.6 km
- Riverside (Kerry Quarter, Lower Marsh) 0.7 km
- West Cambridge 1.5 km
- Area 4 1.7 km
- Lower Allston 1.7 km
- Allston 1.7 km
- Cambridgeport 1.8 km
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2.2 km
- MIT (Neighbourhood) 2.4 km