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Dexter Pratt House
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Coordinates: 42°22′28.0″N 71°7′20.3″W / 42.37444°N 71.122306°WCoordinates: 42°22′28.0″N 71°7′20.3″W / 42.37444°N 71.122306°W Built: 1808 Architect: Unknown Architectural style: Federal Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 73000288
[1]Added to NRHP: May 8, 1973 Dexter Pratt House is an historic house at 54 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The house was built in 1808 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Dexter Pratt was the village blacksmith that inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Village Blacksmith".[2] Longfellow published the poem in 1841 as part of Ballads and Other Poems, which also collected "The Wreck of the Hesperus".[3] The poem proved to be popular. It mentioned a "spreading chestnut tree" where Dexter Pratt worked and, when the actual tree was cut down, the children of Cambridge raised money to have the wood converted into an arm-chair and presented it to Longfellow.[4]
The building is now owned by the Cambridge Center for Adult Education which also owns the historic William Brattle House.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Wilson, Susan. Literary Trail of Greater Boston. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000: 105. ISBN 0-618-05013-2
- ^ Sullivan, Wilson. New England Men of Letters. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972: 194. ISBN 0027886808.
- ^ Sullivan, Wilson. New England Men of Letters. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972: 198. ISBN 0027886808.
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