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Designed by two Harvard Presidents, John Leverett and Benjamin Wadsworth, between 1718 and 1720 for the housing of sixty-four students, the building served various functions over the years, including a refuge for American soldiers during the Siege of Boston, and an observatory after Thomas Hollis' donation of a twenty-four-foot telescope in ...
Eliot House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. It is one of the seven original houses at the college. It is one of the seven original houses at the college. Opened in 1931, the house was named after Charles William Eliot , who served as president of the university for forty years (1869–1909).
Tata Hall is a building on the campus of the Harvard Business School in Allston, Massachusetts. It was built in part with $50 million from the Tata Group, [1] and named in honor of its former chairman and HBS alumnus Ratan Tata. [2] The project began in 2010, [3] and it was completed in 2013. [2] The building includes a dormitory and classrooms ...
A decentralized commuter center was established in 1935 called Dudley Hall, named after the former Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony Thomas Dudley. [6] Coinciding with the founding of the Dudley Co-operative Society (Dudley Co-op)—Harvard's off-campus cooperative housing dormitory—it was renamed Dudley House and officially became part of the Harvard House system in 1958.
Leverett House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University.It is situated along the north bank of the Charles River in Cambridge and consists of McKinlock Hall, constructed in 1925; two 12-story towers completed in 1960; and two floors of 20 DeWolfe Street, a building Leverett shares with two other houses at Harvard.
Lowell House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University, located at 10 Holyoke Place facing Mount Auburn Street between Harvard Yard and the Charles River. Officially, it is named for the Lowell family, but the letters ALL above the main gate reference Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Harvard's president at the time of ...
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. [1]
Before Harvard opted to use a lottery system to assign housing to upperclassmen, Kirkland was considered the "jock house" because its location near Anderson Bridge and the Soldiers Field made it a desirable home and convenient place to dine for Harvard athletes. The Kirkland House Boat Club last won the Agassiz Cup in 2003