Christ Church

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Lonely Planet review

Cambridge's oldest church was designed in 1761 by America's first formally trained architect, Peter Harrison (who also did King's Chapel in Boston). Washington's troops used it as a barracks after its Tory congregation fled. Christ Church's favorite son is Teddy Roosevelt, who taught Sunday school here when he was a student at Harvard.

The adjacent Old Burying Ground is a tranquil revolutionary-era cemetery, where Harvard's first eight presidents are buried.