The three-story, wooden, Federal style house was built in the early 19th century, and was Fuller's home from birth until age 16.

A few months after the wedding, they bought the three-story, Federal-style house on Cherry Street for the high price of $6,000.

[3] Today, the Margaret Fuller House is being used to service the public in The Port community in Cambridge.

A fundraiser is held every year for the MFNH called the Sweet Soul Supper to help provide money to run these services.

The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974 for its association with Fuller, whose publication of Woman in the Nineteenth Century in the 1840s has been described by her biographer Karen Antony as "the first considered statement of feminism in this country".