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Harvard is undertaking a major renewal of the Houses creating a home where students can bring together their academic, social, and personal passions and pursuits. Harvard is far along on this program with the sixth House (of twelve) now in renewal.
- Adams House
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These are the twelve upperclass undergraduate Houses of Harvard University. See also: List of residential colleges
A House Away from Home. The Residential Community system is one of Harvard's best known traditions. In the second semester of your first year, on Housing Day, you'll receive your sophomore year house affiliation to one of Harvard's 12 Houses. Each House accommodates between 350 and 500 students.
- Adams House
- Cabot House
- Currier House
- Dudley House
- Dunster House
- Eliot House
- Kirkland House
- Leverett House
- Lowell House
- Mather House
In the seven residential halls that make up Adams House, Faculty Dean Sean Palfrey wrote, “There are nooks and crannies everywhere, though even more so inside where there are gold-leaf-walled rooms, arches, organs, stained glass, Moorish ceilings, marble floors.” Currently, Adams House is under renovation. It is a project that will take five years ...
“Lots and lots of open space often filled with kids and dogs and neighbors and just lots of laidback fun,” said Ian Miller, faculty dean of Cabot House, one of the three Houses that make up the Quad. “The Quad is really unusual. All of the other Houses are gated communities. Cabot is open to the world and open to Cambridge, and that is in many ways...
Of all Harvard’s undergraduate Houses, no building brings the outdoors inside like Currier. “The tree house” is all about the landscape where alternate sloping and sunken hillsides are organic, serene, and tree-filled. Frank Lloyd Wright would approve of Currier. In the common room called “the fishbowl” there are oversized windows that face the slo...
Two Victorian homes nestled between Harvard and Porter squares comprise the Dudley Co-op. Founded in 1958, the Co-op offers an alternative to on-campus living with its “progressive, participatory community.” The structures, one on Massachusetts Avenue and the other on Sacramento Street, mingle well in the Cambridge community.
A small triangular plot along the Charles River is the site of Dunster House, named after Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard (1640‒1654). The large-scale, heavy, and elaborate adornments harken back to 18th-century Baroque English architecture.
“There is a reason so many films have featured Eliot from the air,” said Faculty Dean of Eliot House Kevin Madigan. “To start with, it is spectacularly situated on the river, and the architects neatly fit it between JFK and Memorial Drive. Its near-perfection, architecturally speaking, is that is it a single building that essentially makes up an eq...
Kirkland House, named for the Rev. John Thornton Kirkland, Class of 1789, who served as president of Harvard from 1810 to 1828, is composed of three primary structures: Smith Hall (1913), the main residence quad; Bryan Hall (1931), the Faculty Dean’s lodging; and John Hicks House (1760), the site of the House library. Among the smallest Houses, the...
The 12 stories of Leverett Towers (1960) were erected as an adjunct to Leverett’s existing McKinlock Hall (1925) on nearby Memorial Drive. This was Harvard’s first experiment with high-rise design and differed greatly from the neo-Georgian style farther up the river. The central garden is depressed and the towers are asymmetrical. The towers and th...
Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell (1909‒1933) hired his close friend Charles Coolidge to design the River Houses. Coolidge initially wanted to create a Gothic Revival grouping; his partners had to convene a meeting of Boston architects to talk him out of it. Today the River Houses, including Lowell, are considered a masterwork of Georgian Reviva...
Mather House, a 19-story high-rise built in 1970, was designed by Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, the oldest architectural firm in Boston and the one that designed all of Harvard’s River Houses. Mather’s brutalist style is showcased in the rigid geometry. Enormous concrete pillars decorate open patio spaces.
Currier House Resident Dean. Assistant Dean of Harvard College. Resident Dean for Transfer Students.
The Houses. The Houses serve as the foundation for the undergraduate experience at Harvard College. Each House accommodates 350-500 students with its own dining hall, common rooms, and facilities for academic, recreational, and cultural activities. Learn about the Houses.
Ninety-eight percent of all undergraduates live in one of the twelve residential Houses. Each House accommodates 350-500 students with its own dining hall, common rooms, and facilities for academic, recreational, and cultural activities. Learn More About The 12 Houses
