Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . 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 Mrs. ElizabethFogg, of New Y(^rk. 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 elab
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . 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 Mrs. ElizabethFogg, of New Y(^rk. 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 \on ARCHITECTURE BUILDING, HARVARD COLLEGE. Aleyer, ot Boston. Leaving ihe yard by this gate, we cross tostately Memorial Hall, .m the delta opposite, with Daniel bronze statue of John Harvard in the open space atthe side. Memorial Hall, with Sanders Theatre, is the monu-ment of Harvard graduates to comrades who fell in the CivilWar. It was built in 1873-76. Sanders Theatre is named froma former steward of the college, who left a bequest to the insti-tuion. The hall is west of the tower, which rises two hundredfeet above the building; the theatre is on the east. In theMemorial Transept are marble tablets bearing the names of the 110 GUIDE TO BOSTON. graduates and students who lost their lives in the war. AlemorialHall is now used as a dining-hall for the students. Its walls areadorned with protraits by Copley, Stuart, and other Americanpainters, and with busts of men who were identified with thecollege. The bust of Longfellow is a replica of the one in West-minster Abbey. At the
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