Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House

	Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	29 Buckingham Street,; Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′49″N 71°7′50″W / 42.38028°N 71.13056°WCoordinates: 42°22′49″N 71°7′50″W / 42.38028°N 71.13056°W
Built	1880
Architectural style	Queen Anne
MPS	Cambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.	82001948
Added to NRHP	April 13, 1982

The Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House is a historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is named after author, minister, and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who had it built and lived there for a time.^[2]

The house was built in 1880 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1] It was the first home that Higginson ever owned. As he wrote to his sister shortly after moving in, "It is such inexpressible happiness to have at last a permanent home."^[3]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ Wilson, Susan. Literary Trail of Greater Boston. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000: 119. ISBN 0-618-05013-2
^ Brenda Wineapple. White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. New York: Knopf, 2008: 226–227. ISBN 978-1-4000-4401-6.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[2] Wilson, Susan. Literary Trail of Greater Boston. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000: 119. ISBN 0-618-05013-2

[3] Brenda Wineapple. White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. New York: Knopf, 2008: 226–227. ISBN 978-1-4000-4401-6.

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