Leroy Anderson Square is located at the corner of Crawford and Chatham Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The square is across the street from 12 Chatham Street, the boyhood home of composer Leroy Anderson. The square is adjacent to the building at 2 Crawford Street.
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On October 26, 1995 the Trustees of Harvard University named the new Harvard University Band headquarters at 74 Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts the Anderson Band Center in honor of former HUB Director Leroy Anderson (Director: 1929, 1931-1935).
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The Leroy Anderson House was the home of Leroy Anderson and his wife Eleanor Anderson. The house is a Historic House Museum on the National Register of Historic Places. It is occasionally open to the public. It is also one of the few Mid-Century Modern homes in New England that is open to the public. For detailed information, see the website of the Leroy Anderson Foundation.
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The Leroy Anderson Memorial Bandstand on Woodbury's historic North Green was built by the Woodbury Lions Club in 1986. The West Point Military Academy Band, with Lt. Col. Ronald O. McCown, Commander, conducting, gave a concert on the North Green on September 14, 1986 as part of the dedication ceremony to honor Leroy Anderson. Several hundred people attended the concert and the dedication.
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American composer Leroy Anderson is buried in New North Cemetery, Woodbury, Connecticut. American composer Leroy Anderson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 29, 1908 and died in Woodbury, Connecticut on May 18, 1975 at age 66, one month before his 67th birthday. The National Counter Intelligence Corps Association named Leroy Anderson as a Notable CIC Agent for his service in the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps in Iceland and in the Department of Military Intelligence at the Pentagon during World War II. The United States National Archives at St. Louis, Missouri designated Leroy Anderson as a Person of Exceptional Prominence, defined as a "historically significant individual".