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...Hollis Hall: As Harvard enlarged, a new dormitory was needed and in 1762 the legislature devoted 2500 pounds sterling to build the hall. The building was designed by Charles Bulfinch. Harvard hired master builder William Dawes who was later to earn fame as the man who actually delivered the warning to the revolutionary soldiers at Lexington and Concord...
...architectural history of Cambridge, "The college obtained heroic Copley portraits to decorate the dining hall, making it the only American interior of the time where paintings, frames, and architecture were planned to form a single decorative scheme.... All in all the most sophisticated American college building before Bulfinch...
...University Hall: Bulfinch came to Harvard in 1795 when he designed Hollis Hall, but his greatest work in the Yard is his 1812 University Hall--designed as a chapel, dining hall, classroom building, and presidential office. Easily one of Harvard's most famous buildings, it broke tradition with building materials, since it was made of Chelmsford granite and not the typical red bricks...
...committee choosing the museum had to deal with the ghosts of the renowned architects who had designed for Harvard--H.H. Richardson, Josep Lluis Sert, Charles Bulfinch, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, John Andrews, and the firm McKim, Mead and White...
Finley said that Kirkland, who served as president from 1810-28, commissioned architect Charles Bulfinch to build University Hall in the Federalist, neoclassical style. According to "Three Centuries of Harvard," a college history book by Samuel Eliot Morison, Kirkland called the Yard an "unkempt sheep commons," and completed other improvement projects including the construction of Holworthy Hall...