Cabot House
| Cabot House | |
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| Residential House at Harvard University | |
Briggs Hall, Cabot House
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| University | Harvard University |
| Location | 60 Linnaean Street |
| Coordinates | 42°22′53″N 71°07′27″W / 42.38143°N 71.12420°WCoordinates: 42°22′53″N 71°07′27″W / 42.38143°N 71.12420°W |
| Full name | Thomas and Virginia Cabot House |
| Latin name | Domus Capoceus |
| Motto | Semper cor (Latin) |
| Motto in English | Always heart |
| Established | 1901 |
| Named for | Thomas and Virginia Cabot |
| Previous names | South House, East House |
| Sister college | Trumbull College |
| Freshman dorm | Wigglesworth Hall |
| Faculty Deans | Rakesh and Stephanie Khurana |
| Dean | Tiffanie Ting |
| HoCo chairs | Alina Acosta and Rebecca Ramos |
| Undergraduates | 358 |
| Tutors | 18 |
| Called | Cabotoix, Cabotians, Caboteers |
| Website | www |
Cabot House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. Cabot House derives from the merger in 1970 of Radcliffe College's South and East House, which took the name South House (also known as "SoHo"), until the name was changed and the House reincorporated in 1984 to honor Harvard benefactors Thomas Cabot and Virginia Cabot. The house is composed of six buildings surrounding Radcliffe Quadrangle; in order of construction, they are Bertram Hall (1901), Eliot Hall (1906), Whitman Hall (1911), Barnard Hall (1912), Briggs Hall (1923), and Cabot Hall (1937). All six of these structures were originally women-only Radcliffe College dormitories until they were integrated in 1970. Along with Currier House and Pforzheimer House, Cabot is part of the Radcliffe Quad.
The current Faculty Deans of Cabot House are Rakesh Khurana (Professor at Harvard Business School and Dean of Harvard College) and his wife Stephanie Khurana. Prior Masters include then-Radcliffe President Mary Bunting and New Republic publisher Martin Peretz.
In 1970, Harvard and Radcliffe began to experiment with co-educational housing. 150 Harvard students from the River Houses (including former Dean of Harvard College Benedict Gross) switched places with 150 Radcliffe students from the Quadrangle. Ten years later the experiment was taken to its logical conclusion, as the last all-male dorm, Straus Hall in Harvard Yard, went co-ed. Today, all Harvard dormitories, including the three Houses of the Quadrangle, house both men and women.
In 1961 Radcliffe College began to organize the brick buildings of the Radcliffe Quad into residential colleges in the style of Harvard. These Houses were styled North, South, and East, in reference to the cardinal directions of the building clusters.
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