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Gore Hall was a historic building on the
Gore Hall was a historic building on the Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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, designed by Richard Bond. Harvard's first dedicated library building, a Gothic
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structure built in 1838 of Quincy granite, it was named in honor of Harvard graduate and Massachusetts Governor Christopher Gore
Christopher Gore (September 21, 1758 – March 1, 1827) was a prominent Massachusetts lawyer, Federalist politician, and U.S. diplomat. Born into a family divided by the American Revolution, Gore sided with the victorious Patriots, establis ...
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When, in 1846, Harvard President Edward Everett
Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was an American politician, Unitarian pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, as a Whig, served as U.S. representative, U.S. senator, the 15th governor of Massa ...
was asked to design a seal for the newly incorporated City of Cambridge, he made Gore one of two icons (the other being the Washington Elm
The Washington Elm was a tree on Cambridge Common in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that lived approximately 210 years and died in 1923.
History
Beginning as early as the 1830s, it became popular legend that "under this tree Washington first took comm ...
) encircled by the motto ''Literis Antiquis Novis Institutis Decora''. "It can be translated as: 'Distinguished for Classical Learning and New Institutions.
When the original Gore Hall was demolished in 1913 to make way for Widener Library
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5million books in its "vast and cavernous" stacks (library architecture), stacks, is the centerpiece of the Harvard College Libraries (the libraries of Harvard's Harvard Faculty of Arts an ...
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its name was transferred to a new Gore Hall, a freshman dormitory then under construction and now part of Winthrop House
John Winthrop House (commonly Winthrop House) is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. It is home to approximately 400 upperclass undergraduates.
Winthrop house consists of two buildings, Standish Hall and Gore ...
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References
* *https://archive.today/20150224033933/http://portal-gss.lib.harvard.edu/01092015-1907/history-harvards-library-one-spine-time * *External links
* Text gives locations of three other pinnacles salvaged from Gore Hall. {{Coord, 42.3738, -71.1164, display=title Harvard University buildings Demolished buildings and structures in Massachusetts Buildings and structures demolished in 1913