Bertram Hall at Radcliffe College is an historic dormitory building on the
Radcliffe Quadrangle
The Radcliffe Quadrangle (or Rad Quad as it is known to students of the College) is the second quadrangle of University College, Oxford, England. The buildings have been Grade I listed since 1954.
The quadrangle was started in 1716 and f ...
of
Harvard University
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at 53 Shepard Street in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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. Built in 1901, it was the first dormitory building constructed for
Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...
. The building is now one of the dormitories of Harvard's
Cabot House
Cabot House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. Cabot House derives from the merger in 1970 of Radcliffe College's South and East House, which took the name South House (also known as "SoHo"), until the name ...
.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1986.
Description and history
Bertram Hall is located on the south side of the Radcliffe Quadrangle, between its grassy center and Shepard Street. It is a -story brick building with Georgian Revival styling. It is covered by a dormered hip roof. It is nine bays wide, with a central five-bay section and symmetrical two-bay end sections that project slightly. The building corners have brick quoining, and the eave is adorned with modillions. Most windows are set in rectangular openings with stone sills and splayed stone lintels; those on the ground floors of the end sections are set in blind round-arch recesses. The main entrance is at the center, sheltered by a single-story porch with Tuscan columns and a balustrade on the roof.
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The hall was built in 1901 to a design by ]Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr.
Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. (August 18, 1854, Portland, Maine – February 16, 1934, Portland) was an American architect and nephew of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Biography
Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. was the son of Alexan ...
It was the first of the quadrangle's buildings to be built, and the first dormitory building at Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...
, representing a major shift in the college's policy from placement of its boarding students in private homes. It was funded by a donation from the Radcliffe class of 1895.
See also
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References
External links
Cabot House
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School buildings completed in 1901
Harvard University buildings
University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1901 establishments in Massachusetts