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Articles and categories related to buildings on the campus of Harvard University, a private Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
University Hall is a white granite building designed by the great early American architect Charles Bulfinch and built by the noted early engineer Loammi Baldwin Jr. It is located in Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts .
The Harvard Houses Historic District is a historic district encompassing seven of Harvard College's residential houses. The district is roughly bounded by Mt. Auburn, Grant, and Cowperwaite Streets, Banks Street and Putman Avenue, Memorial Drive, and JFK Street (formerly Boylston Street) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The contributing buildings ...
Harvard Yard is the oldest and among the most prominent parts of the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.The yard has a historic center and modern crossroads and contains most of the freshman dormitories, Harvard's most important libraries, Memorial Church, several classroom and departmental buildings, and the offices of senior university officials, including the President ...
Sever Hall is an academic building at Harvard University designed by the American architect H. H. Richardson and built in the late 1870s. It is located in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts . It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970, recognized as one of Richardson's mature masterpieces.
The building was constructed between 1718 and 1720. Massachusetts Hall was designed by Harvard Presidents John Leverett and his successor Benjamin Wadsworth . The building initially was a dormitory, including 32 chambers and 64 small private studies for the 64 students it was designed to house.
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Between 1865 and 1868, an alumni "Committee of Fifty" raised $370,000 (equal to one-twelfth of Harvard's entire endowment at the time) toward a new building in memory of Harvard men who had fought for the Union in the American Civil War, [10] particularly the 136 dead [11] —a "Hall of Alumni in which students and graduates might be inspired by the pictured and sculpted presence of her ...