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Kirkland House

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Kirkland House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University, located near the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was named after John Thornton Kirkland, president of Harvard University from 1810 to 1828.

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Kirkland House
Dunster Street, Cambridge Cambridgeport

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Dunster Street 95
02163 Cambridge, Cambridgeport
Massachusetts, United States
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