12--16 Quincy St., Cambridge, Massachusetts. County/parish: Middlesex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 19, 1986. NRIS 86001682.
Part of Cambridge MRA (NRIS 64000275).
1 contributing building.
The Dana-Palmer House (also known as Dana-Peabody House) is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The two-story wood-frame house was built in 1823, and is basically Federal in its styling, although it has a Greek Revival porch. From 1835 to 1842 the building served as Harvard's astronomical observatory; from 1842 to 1947 as a faculty residence for several notable faculty; from 1947 to 2006 as an official visitor guest house; and after 2006 as home of Harvard's department of comparative literature.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790761