Houghton Library, Harvard
- Address: 15 Quincy St
- Vicinity: Linden St
- Neighborhood of Mid-Cambridge, MA in Cambridge, MA
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1942/02/28 | Largly funded by Arthur A Houghton Jr, Houghton Library opens at Harvard University. | |||||
| 1948/00/00 | "Melville's Billy Budd" edited by F Barron Freeman is published. It is the first effort to establish a "definitive text" based upon a study of the manuscript currently in the Houghton Library at Harvard. | Billy Budd (book) | ||||
| 1962/00/00 | Herman Melville | Author | "Billy Budd" edited by Harrison Hayford and Merton M Sealts Jr is published by the University of Chicago Press. After several years of studying the original manuscript, Hayford and Sealts assembled what is now considered the correct, authoritative text. | Billy Budd (book) |
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| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Sight Category | Building |
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| The Villa Ocampo Documentation Center |
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