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.