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 | Harvard University: THE FOGG MUSEUM - The Fogg Museum opened in 1895. In 1911, the Museum held the first exhibition of Degas in the United States. The Museum's current home was constructed in 1927 to house the world's largest and most comprehensive academic collection, some 150,000 works of art from around the globe, focusing on Western art from the Medieval period to the present. In addition to the collections, the Fogg contains three lecture halls, the Straus Center for Conservation, and an extensive Fine Arts Library. The Busch-Reisinger Museum, in Werner Otto Hall (1991) adjacent to the Fogg, is the only North American museum exclusively devoted to the art of Northern and Central Europe.  click to open  |  | Harvard University: THE SACKLER MUSEUM - The Sackler Museum (1985) houses the collections and curatorial departments of Ancient, Asian, and Islamic and later Indian art. It also contains the Art Museums' largest special exhibition gallery, the Department of Fine Arts, the RŸbel Asiatic Research Library, an auditorium, and classrooms. click to open |  | Harvard University: GUND HALL - Gund Hall (1972), notable for its dramatically sloped transparent roof, houses the Graduate School of Design. The design allows natural light to flood four levels of student and faculty studios. The School was built on the former site of the Harvard University Press. click to open |  | Harvard University: MEMORIAL HALL - Cathedral-like Memorial Hall (1870-78) commemorates Harvard men who died in the Civil War while fighting for the Union. Plaques along the walls of the transept dividing the hall in two list the names of 136 who fell in battle. Harvard classes donated many of the 21 Tiffany and La Farge stained-glass windows featured throughout the building. click to open |  | Harvard University: SCIENCE CENTER - Josep Lluis Sert designed the Science Center (1972). In addition to the departments of Mathematics, Statistics, and History of Science, the Center contains numerous laboratories, lecture halls, classrooms, a cafŽ, and the Cabot Science Library. click to open |  | Harvard University: HOLLIS AND STOUGHTON HALLS AND HOLDEN CHAPEL - Two freshman dormitories, Hollis Hall (1763) and Stoughton Hall (1805), face the statue of John Harvard across the Old Yard. Dents and pockmarks dot the bricks in front of both halls. Nearby Holden Chapel (1744) is the third-oldest building in the Yard. From 1744 to 1766 and again from 1769 to 1772 students used the space for morning and evening prayers. click to open |  | Harvard University: JOHN HARVARD STATUE AND UNIVERSITY HALL - In 1884 Samuel J. Bridge presented the University with a bronze statue of John Harvard as conceived by Daniel Chester French. At the unveiling, President Eliot recalled Harvard's bequest, saying, "He will teach that one disinterested deed of hope and faith may crown a brief and broken life with deathless fame." The statue is nicknamed "The Statue of Three Lies." Behind the statue, University Hall (1815), designed by Charles Bulfinch, divides the Old Yard from the New. The Hall was originally constructed to provide dining, classroom, and chapel space. Currently the building holds the offices of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Dean of Harvard College, and the Dean of Students in the College. [Harvard] click to open |  | Harvard University: MASSACHUSETTS HALL - Massachusetts Hall (1720) stands as the oldest building at Harvard and the second oldest academic building in the country. Like many Harvard buildings, the Hall has served many purposes. Originally used as a dormitory, the Hall housed soldiers of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. It has also seen days as an informal observatory after Thomas Hollis donated a quadrant and a 24-foot telescope in 1722. Today the President of the University, Provost, Treasurer, and Vice Presidents have offices on the first three floors; freshmen reside on the upper floors. click to open |  | Harvard University: JOHNSTON GATE AND HARVARD HALL - For over 360 years students and faculty have passed through the area now guarded by Johnston Gate (1890). The first and oldest of the nine major and several minor gates built into the fence enclosing Harvard Yard, Johnston Gate was the first University structure to use handmade and wood-burned Harvard Brick to resemble brick used in earlier buildings. Just past Johnston Gate stands the second incarnation of Harvard Hall. The first burned in 1764, amid the wind and snow of a nor'easter. A list of belongings lost in the fire includes furniture, pictures, tea sets, clothing, wigs, scientific equipment, and a "Repositerry [sic] of Curiosities." [Harvard] click to open |  | Harvard University: Established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Harvard was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Upon his death in 1638, the young minister left his library and half his estate to the new College. In 1639, in recognition of John Harvard's bequest, the Great and General Court ordered "that the colledge agreed upon formerly to bee built at Cambridg shalbee called Harvard Colledge." Founded 16 years after the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the College has grown from 9 students with a single Master into a University with an enrollment of more than 18,000 degree candidates. [Harvard] click to open |
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