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Gates of Harvard Yard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kamin, Blair.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- A one-of-a-kind guided tour through the iconic gates of Harvard Yard, led by Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Blair Kamin.Harvard is America's oldest university, and nothing symbolizes the institution quite like Harvard Yard, defined by the twenty-five gates that frame it.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Frontispice
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Map of Harvard Yard
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Northwest Gates
- Johnston Gate: Harvard Yard's Oldest and Grandest
- The Class of 1874 Gate: Its Glory Was Fleeting
- The Class of 1870 Gate: A "Secret Garden" Beckons
- The Class of 1886 Gate: An Indelicate Fate
- North Gates
- The Class of 1881 Gate: A Short-Lived Vision
- The Class of 1876 (Holworthy) Gate: A Portal of Power and Delicacy
- Meyer (Class of 1879) Gate: A Busy Entry from a Quiet Donor
- Bradstreet Gate: A Nod to Women at Harvard
- The Classes of 1887 and 1888 Gate: The Yard's Only Double Gate
- The Fire Station Gate: No Sizzling Design
- East Gates
- Robinson Gate: Where Michelangelo Looks Down on a Mess
- The Class of 1885 Gate: Built by Top-Shelf Money Men
- Emerson Gate: Handsome but Conventional
- Eliot (Class of 1908) Gate: A Tribute to a Towering Leader
- Loeb House Gate: Where Less Is More
- 17 Quincy Drive Gate: The Ultimate Vanishing
- Dudley Memorial Gate: The Ghost That Still Haunts
- Peter J. Solomon (Class of 1960) Gate: Welcoming and Whimsical
- South and Southwest Gates
- Bacon (Class of 1880) Gate: A Singular Portal Breathes with Life
- Dexter (Class of 1890) Gate: As Notable for Its Words as Its Form
- Morgan (Class of 1877) Gate: Too Big for Its Own Good?
- The Class of 1889 Gate: Overshadowed by Its Near Twin
- The McKean (Porcellian Club) Gate: Inspired by a Pig Roast
- The Class of 1857 Gate: A Tribute to Bonds Not Broken by Civil War
- The Class of 1875 Gate: From Time to Time, It Moves Around
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-30525-6
- 0-674-30524-8
- OCLC:
- 1590082497
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