Currier House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses of Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Opened in September 1970, it is named after Audrey Bruce Currier, a member of the Radcliffe College Class of 1956 who, along with her husband, was killed in a plane crash in 1967. The area was formerly used as housing for Radcliffe College, and as such the four towers of Currier House are named for distinguished alumnae of Radclif...
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