Gore Hall

Gore Hall was a historic building on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, designed by Richard Bond. Gore Hall was Harvard's first dedicated library building, a Gothic structure built in 1838 of Quincy granite and named in honor of Harvard graduate and Massachusetts Governor Christopher Gore.

An 1840 engraving by George Girdler Smith

An 1879 woodcut from The American Cyclopædia

Stereoscopic image

Image by John P. Soule (1827–1904)

Gore Hall

Under demolition, 1913

Seal of the City of Cambridge designed 1846 by Harvard President Edward Everett showing Gore Hall

Plaque on north facade of Widener Library

In 1846, Harvard President Edward Everett was asked to design a seal for the newly incorporated City of Cambridge, and he identified Gore and Washington Elm as two icons encircled by the motto Literis Antiquis Novis Institutis Decora. "It can be translated as: 'Distinguished for Classical Learning and New Institutions.'"^[1]

When the original Gore Hall was demolished in 1913 to make way for Widener Library,^[2] its name was transferred to a new Gore Hall, a freshman dormitory then under construction and now part of Winthrop House.^[3]

References

1. Cambridge Historical Commission. "About the CHC. Frequently Asked Questions". City of Cambridge. Archived from the original on May 16, 2014. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
2. Spencer, Thaxter (November–December 2011). "Christopher Gore". Harvard Magazine.
3. Harvard University (1949). Education, bricks and mortar: Harvard buildings and their contribution to the advancement of learning. Harvard University. p. 29. ISBN 9780674238855.

• Harvard University. Library (1905). An Index Guide to the Shelf Classification of the Harvard College Library ... library. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
• https://archive.today/20150224033933/http://portal-gss.lib.harvard.edu/01092015-1907/history-harvards-library-one-spine-time
• Cutter, C.A. (1869). The New Catalogue of Harvard College Library. The North American Review. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
• Kent, A. (1983). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Taylor & Francis. p. 328. ISBN 9780824720353. Retrieved November 15, 2015.

External links

• "Round Point Pinnacle at Appleton Farms". 25 May 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2017. Text gives locations of three other pinnacles salvaged from Gore Hall.

42.3738°N 71.1164°W / 42.3738; -71.1164