Maria Baldwin House

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Maria Baldwin House
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)
Maria Baldwin House
Maria Baldwin House
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates: 42°22′12″N 71°6′4″W / 42.37, -71.10111Coordinates: 42°22′12″N 71°6′4″W / 42.37, -71.10111
Built/Founded: 1892
Architectural style(s): Greek Revival
Designated as NHL: May 11, 1976
Added to NRHP: May 11, 1976
NRHP Reference#: 76000272[1]
Governing body: Private

The Maria Baldwin House is a National Historic Landmark located at 196 Prospect Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a private home, and not open to the public.

The house is the northern half of a 19th-century two-family house, notable for its associations with educator Maria Louise Baldwin (1856-1922). It was her home when she served as the first female African-American principal in a Massachusetts school at Cambridge's Agassiz Grammar School (from 1916 onwards). As master, she supervised 12 teachers, all white, who presided over a 98% white student body. The Agassiz School has since been renamed the Maria Baldwin School in her honor.

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  1. ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).

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