E.E. Cummings House

E. E. Cummings House
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′43.6″N 71°6′38.5″W / 42.378778°N 71.110694°W / 42.378778; -71.110694Coordinates: 42°22′43.6″N 71°6′38.5″W / 42.378778°N 71.110694°W / 42.378778; -71.110694
Built 1893
Architect Walker & Kimball
Architectural style Colonial Revival
MPS Cambridge MRA
NRHP Reference #

83000796

[1]
Added to NRHP June 30, 1983

The E.E. Cummings House is an historic house at 104 Irving Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The house was the childhood home of author and poet E. E. Cummings.[2] The Colonial Revival house was built in 1893 for Cummings' parents, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

Description and history

The Cummings house is set on a roughly triangular parcel formed by the junction of Irving and Scott Streets in the Shady Hill neighborhood east of Harvard University. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure with Colonial Revival massing and features. It has a projecting dentillated cornice below the gabled roof, and a porch supported by Tuscan columns. There is a projecting bay section at the center of the main facade to the left of the entry, and a single-story bay to its right.[3]

The house was designed by Walker and Kimball for Edward E. Cummings, a professor at Harvard and a local pastor, and was built in 1893. Cummings' son the poet E. E. Cummings, was born here the following year, and lived here until he graduated from Harvard (BA 1915, MA 1917), and moved to New York City. Cummings described the house in his six nonlectures: "My own home faced the Cambridge world as a finely and solidly constructed mansion, preceded by a large oval lawn and ringed with an imposing white-pine hedge."[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Reuben, Paul P. "E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)". PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
  3. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for E.E. Cummings House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
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