Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . t of Harvard College and historian. John G. Palfrey, 1815, professor and historian. George Bancroft, 1817, statesman and historian. Horatio Greenough, 1825, sculptor. Richard Hildreth, 1826, historian. Francis Parkman, 1844, historian. Phillips Brooks, 1855, bishop of Massachusetts. The tablet on the face of the building is thus incribed; Massachusetts Hall. Built by the Province bythe American Army1775-1776 Used for students roomsuntil 1870-71. Coming next on the left are: Harvard Hall, built in 1765;Hollis, 1763: Holden Chap
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . t of Harvard College and historian. John G. Palfrey, 1815, professor and historian. George Bancroft, 1817, statesman and historian. Horatio Greenough, 1825, sculptor. Richard Hildreth, 1826, historian. Francis Parkman, 1844, historian. Phillips Brooks, 1855, bishop of Massachusetts. The tablet on the face of the building is thus incribed; Massachusetts Hall. Built by the Province bythe American Army1775-1776 Used for students roomsuntil 1870-71. Coming next on the left are: Harvard Hall, built in 1765;Hollis, 1763: Holden Chapel, 1744; Stoughton Hall, 1805; Hol-worthy Hall, 1812. On the right are: Boylston Hall; Gore Hall,built in 1841, containing the library of about 400,000 volumes; Wild Hall, dor-mitory; Univer-sity Hall; SeaverHall, the finest ofthe recitation andlecture halls; Ap-pleton Chapel,built by the Ap-pleton family, ofBoston, as a me-morial of SamuelAppleton. of Bos-ton, one of theuniversitys bene-factors; ThayerHall, dormitory;the new SemiticMuseum, and the. PHILLIPS BROOKS HOLSE, HARVARDCOLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE, HARVARD COLLEGE AND MOUNT AUBURN. 109 new Architectural Building. The Fogg Art Museum, facing thestreet, is close at hand. This was a gift from JMrs. ElizabethFogg, of New York. It contains lecture and exhibition halls, inwhich are collections of casts, electrotypes of coins, Greek vases,and Italian renaissance work. Sections in plaster of the Par-thenon frieze form the frieze of the main hall. The museum isopen to the public daily, including Sunday afternoons. The north gate, in general character with the west gate,though less elaborate in style, was a gift of George Von L.
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