{"id":305,"date":"2009-07-04T16:34:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T16:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2009-07-04T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T16:46:52","slug":"university-hall-harvard-1814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"University Hall, Harvard (1814)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img src='http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/university-hall.jpg' alt='university-hall.jpg' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aoc.gov\/aoc\/architects\/bulfinch.cfm\">Charles Bulfinch<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardsquare.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/harvard-hall-university-hall.html\">Harvard<\/a>&#8216;s monumental <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_Hall_(Harvard_University)\">University Hall<\/a> was built in 1813-1814.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loammi_Baldwin\">Loammi Baldwin<\/a>, who designed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middlesexcanal.org\/\">Middlesex Canal<\/a> and Harvard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holworthy_Hall\">Holworthy Hall<\/a> of 1811-1812, supervised the construction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluffton.edu\/~sullivanm\/bulfinch\/university.html\">University Hall<\/a>.  Built of <a href=\"http:\/\/tin.er.usgs.gov\/geology\/state\/sgmc-unit.php?unit=MADcgr%3B0\">Chelmsford granite<\/a>, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/elissacorsini\/178149109\/\">Harvard&#8217;s first stone building<\/a>.  The first floor originally contained four dining halls, one for each class, with kitchens located in the basement.  The second floor contained a chapel, marked on the exterior by tall arched windows.  These initial interior arrangements have been completely altered over the years and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=211241\">the building<\/a>&#8216;s original portico was removed in 1842. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designed by Charles Bulfinch, Harvard&#8216;s monumental University Hall was built in 1813-1814. Loammi Baldwin, who designed the Middlesex Canal and Harvard&#8217;s Holworthy Hall of 1811-1812, supervised the construction of University Hall. Built of Chelmsford granite, it was Harvard&#8217;s first stone building. The first floor originally contained four dining halls, one for each class, with kitchens located in the basement. The second floor contained a chapel, marked on the exterior by tall arched windows. These initial interior arrangements have been completely altered over the years and the building&#8216;s original portico was removed in 1842.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,44,53],"tags":[54,202],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambridge","category-collegiate","category-federal","tag-bulfinch","tag-harvard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}