Longy Campus

Longy’s main facility, a grand four-level stone building on tree-lined Follen Street adjacent to Harvard University, was built in 1889 by the Boston architects Longfellow, Alden & Harlow as the home of railroad magnate Edwin Hale Abbot and was rededicated as the Zabriskie House in 2004. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building’s richly detailed public spaces and comfortable Queen Anne Revival teaching studios contribute to the school’s intimate, graceful ambiance.

Since moving to its present location in 1937, Longy has retained the building’s original character while creating a fully functional professional Conservatory. The 350-seat Edward Pickman Concert Hall was built in 1970, followed by fourteen additional practice/rehearsal rooms and a large Dalcroze Eurhythmics studio a decade later. The Bakalar Library wing was added in 1992 and includes a small campus lunch area, an extended Green Room, and early music rehearsal facilities. An electronic composition studio opened in the fall of 1998.

In August 1998, Longy acquired a teaching, practice, and office facility at 33 Garden Street one block from the principal building. This bright, elegant building, named the Rey-Waldstein Building in 2001, includes a seventy-seat recital room, and some twenty teaching studios and classrooms. Additionally, Eurhythmics classes and large rehearsals occupy the Margaret Jewett Hall, a large Victorian-era assembly hall at nearby First Church, Cambridge.