Maria Baldwin House
| Maria Baldwin House | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| National Historic Landmark | |||
 The house in 2012 |
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| location | Cambridge , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 22 '12.5 " N , 71 ° 6' 8.3" W | ||
| Architectural style | Greek Revival | ||
| NRHP number | 76000272 | ||
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| The NRHP added | May 11, 1976 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | May 11, 1976 | ||
The former home of the African-American teacher Maria Louise Baldwin has been listed as a National Historic Landmark in the National Register of Historic Places since 1976 as Maria Baldwin House . The Cambridge, Massachusetts building is privately owned and not open to the public.
architecture
The semi-detached house , built entirely of wood in the style of the Greek Revival , has a core T-shaped floor plan, which has been expanded to include extensions. The house is two stories high and has a gable roof with slate roofing . Undecorated entablature runs along the roofline, surmounted by a cornice , and on the short sides of the building gives the visual impression of an actually non-existent gable triangle .
On the front side, which runs parallel to the street, are the centrally aligned, side by side entrances, which are integrated into a portico . This is two yokes long and half a yoke deep and rests on three fluted columns of the Ionic order , which are mirrored by three opposing, but smooth pilasters on the wall side.
Historical meaning
Maria Louise Baldwin was one of the most important African American teachers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. She was born in Cambridge in 1856 and lived there for most of her life. Over the course of her more than 40-year career, she was appointed principal of a grammar school and later a master's degree in a secondary school , which she achieved as the only member of the black population of New England and one of only two women in Cambridge. Most recently she was responsible for twelve teachers and 500 pupils, the majority of whom were white. Outside of school, she was also active in various groups in the greater Cambridge-Boston area and also gave speeches throughout the United States.
Maria Baldwin had good contacts with, among others, Edward Everett Hale , Thomas Wentworth Higginson , Julia Ward Howe , Archibald Grimké and William Monroe Trotter . She has long served as president of the League of Women for Community Service and a member of the Robert Gould Shaw House Association and the Boston Twentieth Century Club . In her home, she also gave private tuition to black Harvard University students , including WEB Du Bois .
In her lectures at teachers' associations, she regularly lectured on poetry , history, women's suffrage, and historical figures in American history. In 1879, she was the first woman to give the birthday speech at the Brooklyn Institute on the occasion of George Washington's birthday . Under the title “The Life and Work of Harriet Beecher Stowe ” she also used this opportunity to educate her audience.
See also
- List of entries on the National Register of Historic Places in Cambridge
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts
literature
- Lynne Gomez Graves: National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form. (PDF) United States Department of the Interior , National Park Service , February 3, 1976, accessed November 23, 2017 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Massachusetts. National Park Service , accessed August 5, 2019.
- ↑ a b cf. Graves, p. 2.
- ↑ cf. Graves, p. 5.
- ↑ cf. Graves, p. 3.
- ↑ a b cf. Graves, p. 7.