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Apley Court
Apley Court is a freshman dormitory at Harvard College. It was built in 1897. [1] Located just south of Harvard Yard, the dormitory was once part of the "Gold Coast" of accommodations occupied by the wealthy elite students of Harvard University. Apley Court is grouped into the Ivy Yard. [1]
The building is worthy of mention for its spiraling marble staircase, spacious rooms larger than any other freshman dormitory on campus , and its convenient location halfway between the upperclass houses and Harvard Yard, where the majority of academic classes, meetings, and other exercises take place.
Additionally, Apley Court is the only Freshman dorm with a mascot. Its mascot is the flying squirrel. [2]
Famous Past Residents
T. S. Eliot, a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, lived in Apley 42 from 1909 to 1910. [3] A plaque on his doorway bears witness to his residence.
Matthews Hall
Matthews Hall is one of the dormitories housing first-year students at Harvard College. It is located in the southwest portion of Harvard Yard. It was constructed in 1871 at a cost of $115,000.[4]
Past residents
- Michael Barone, Room 11
- Michael Chertoff, Room 26
- Matt Damon, Room 37 (now 201)
- Greg Daniels, Room 42
- John Dos Passos, Room 22 (now 409)
- Barney Frank, Room 34
- William Randolph Hearst, Room 46
- Donal Logue, Room 01
- Terrence Malick, Room 08
- Neil H. McElroy, Room 59
- Robert Rubin, Room 01
- Charles Schumer, Room 29
- Michael Schur, Room 403
- Ernest Thayer, Room 03
(Source: Dorm History Search at http://hcs.harvard.edu/~dorms/)
Quincy House
File:QHouseHARVARD.jpgQuincy House, built in 1958Quincy House is one of the twelve upperclass residential houses of Harvard University, located on Plympton Street between Harvard Yard and the Charles River. Quincy House was named after Josiah Quincy III (1772–1864), president of Harvard from 1829 to 1845. It is the largest of the twelve undergraduate houses. Due to renovations scheduled for the 2011-12 school year, it stands to be one of the most cramped houses at Harvard, even surpassing Dunster and Winthrop.
Quincy House was the first house built at Harvard since the original seven river houses, and opened in 1959. It is made up of three buildings, each in a different style of architecture:
- Old Quincy, a neo-Georgian building originally called Mather Hall, which was part of Leverett House until 1960;
- New Quincy, an eight-story modern residential structure with an adjoining two-story wing that includes the house dining hall and a separate protuberance containing the house library;
- The 20 DeWolfe St. residence hall, a brick structure with a double mansard roof of lead-coated copper. The 10 and 20 DeWolfe St. residences are shared with Leverett House and Kirkland House.[1]
Before the integration of the Radcliffe Quad, Quincy House symbolized the new Harvard, as the first House to be built after the original seven river Houses of the early 1930s under President Lowell. Old Quincy, built in 1929-30 is a neo-Georgian building that had its start as Mather Hall.
Famous Quincy alumni include Phil Bredesen, Rob Cohen, Nelson Denis, Lou Dobbs, Douglas Feith, Jamie Gorelick, Tom Ridge, Ron Kind, Peter Sagal, Suzanne Malveaux and Robert Kirshner.
Stoughton Hall
Stoughton Hall Designed by Charles Bulfinch in 1804 is one of the dormitories housing first-year students at Harvard College. It is located in Harvard Yard. The rooms are spacious doubles, housing a mix of interests and nationalities.
Past residents include Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sydney Schanberg, Horatio Alger, John Berendt, Amy Brenneman, Edward Everett, Michael Balchan, James Cushing Bayley V, Edward Zwick, Arne Duncan, and Paul Attanasio. (Source: Dorm History Search at http://hcs.harvard.edu/~dorms/) Other residents include George Santayana and Irving Younger.
Straus Hall
Straus Hall is one of the undergraduate dormitories housing first-year students at Harvard University. It is located in Harvard Yard.
Three Harvard brothers built Straus Hall to commemorate their parents, Isidor Straus and Ida Straus, who died on the Titanic.
Past residents include William S. Burroughs, David Souter, John Roberts, Phil Bredesen, Tom Ridge, Darren Aronofsky, Soledad O'Brien, Tim Wirth, Joseph Lelyveld and Mark Zuckerberg[5].
Thayer Hall
Thayer Hall is one of the largest freshman dormitories on Harvard Yard. It was at times the home of American actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hamzah bin al Hussein of Jordan, as well as James Agee, Steve Ballmer, Andy Borowitz, E. E. Cummings, Roy J. Glauber, Walter Isaacson, Perri Klass, Thomas Kuhn, Bernard Francis Law, Jonathan Mostow, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Owen Wister. (Source: Dorm History Search at http://hcs.harvard.edu/~dorms/)
Thayer Hall is also the name of the main academic building of the United States Military Academy at West Point. It is named after Colonal Sylvanus Thayer, West Point class of 1808.
References
- ^ a b Harvard College Freshman Dean's Office
- ^ http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~trishin/sergey/galleries/2004/froshdorms/apley/index.htm
- ^ Life of T.S. Eliot
- ^ Bunting, Bainbridge; Floyd, Margaret Henderson (1998). Harvard: An Architectural History (2, illustrated ed.). Harvard University Press. p. 309. ISBN 0674372913, 9780674372917. http://books.google.com/books?id=nlaE3-XfmJwC&q.
- ^ http://hcs.harvard.edu/~dorms/
Categories: Harvard Freshman Dormitories
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