Parker Cleaveland House

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location= 75 Federal Street, Brunswick, Maine
lat_degrees = 43
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long_degrees = 69
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designated= May 16, 2000cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-1608703879&ResourceType=Building
title=Parker Cleaveland House |accessdate=2007-10-16|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
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Parker Cleaveland House was the home of Parker Cleaveland from 1806-1858, a minerologist and a professor at nearby Bowdoin College.

While he was a professor at Bowdoin College, Parker Cleaveland conducted some of the earliest studies of mineralogy in the United States. His 1816 work "Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology", which included a volume on types and localities of American minerals, became the standard textbook on the subject in American higher education and the model for future mineralogy scholarship and publications. Cleaveland, the "Father of American Mineralogy", lived in this house from 1806 to 1858.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and declared a National Historic Landmark in 2000.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/00000702.pdf National Historic Landmark Nomination: Parker Cleaveland House] |271 KB|date=undated |author=Joanne Kluessendorf and Kirk Mohney |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/00000702.pdf Accompanying 5 photos, exterior and interior, from 2000.] |919 KB]

Massachusetts Hall, Bowdoin College is also listed on the National Register, for Cleaveland's association.

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