About: Memorial Hall (Harvard University)

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Memorial Hall, immediately north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an imposing High Victorian Gothic building honoring Harvard men's sacrifices in defense of the Union during the American Civil War‍—‌"a symbol of Boston's commitment to the Unionist cause and the abolitionist movement in America." Built on a former playing field known as the Delta, it was described by Henry James as consisting of

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  • Memorial Hall, immediately north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an imposing High Victorian Gothic building honoring Harvard men's sacrifices in defense of the Union during the American Civil War‍—‌"a symbol of Boston's commitment to the Unionist cause and the abolitionist movement in America." Built on a former playing field known as the Delta, it was described by Henry James as consisting of three main divisions: one of them a theater, for academic ceremonies; another a vast refectory, covered with a timbered roof, hung about with portraits and lighted by stained windows, like the halls of the colleges of Oxford; and the third, the most interesting, a chamber high, dim and severe, consecrated to the sons of the university who fell in the long Civil War. James's "three divisions" are known today as (respectively) Sanders Theatre; Annenberg Hall (formerly Alumni Hall or the Great Hall); and Memorial Transept. Beneath Annenberg Hall, Loker Commons offers a number of student facilities. (en)
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  • A ground-level exterior view of a large, highly ornate 19th-century building. Its main body is longer than it is high, with a single very tall story of red-orange brick with tall stained-glass windows. The steep and tall slate roof is patterned in pale shades of blue, light brown, and red-orange, arranged in broad horizontal stripes of widely varying heights. A tower rises to the right of the building's center. (en)
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  • Neo-Gothic (en)
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  • View from southwest showing Annenberg and Memorial is out of (en)
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  • November 2012 (en)
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  • Memorial Hall, Harvard University (en)
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  • This happy commemorative creation of the Union ... the great bristling brick Valhalla of the early "seventies," that house of honor and of hospitality which [dispenses] laurels to the dead and dinners to the living. (en)
  • A huge Victorian Gothic barn. (en)
  • Memorial Hall is, in the opinion of the President and Fellows, the most valuable gift the University has ever received, with respect alike to cost, daily usefulness, and moral significance. (en)
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  • I thought it was the largest in /Cambridge/, and at the time of its building the largest in, um... some big area (en)
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  • Memorial Hall, immediately north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an imposing High Victorian Gothic building honoring Harvard men's sacrifices in defense of the Union during the American Civil War‍—‌"a symbol of Boston's commitment to the Unionist cause and the abolitionist movement in America." Built on a former playing field known as the Delta, it was described by Henry James as consisting of (en)
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  • Memorial Hall, Harvard University (en)
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