William Cook House
Building Name:
William Cook House
Architect:
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913
Date:
1876
Address:
71 Appleton Street Cambridge, MA
Current Use:
Residential
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Notes:
This High Victorian Gothic mansion has stick-like woodwork in its gables and front entrance. See also the distinctive black-brick geometric detailing and horizontal banding. W.P.P.Longfellow was a practicing architect until 1881 when he became a professor of architecture at MIT.
Bibliography:
Bunting, Bainbridge and Robert H. Nylander. Old Cambridge. Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge. Vol. 4. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Historical Commission, 1973.
Rettig, Robert Bell. Guide to Cambridge Architecture: Ten Walking Tours . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1969.
Withey, Henry F. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased) . Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1970 [c1956].
Photo Source:
Bruce Barnes, November, 2003
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