University Hall / John Harvard

University Hall was built in 1813-1815 to a design by Charles Bulfinch, Harvard Class of 1781, and is a National Historic Landmark. The statue there, by Daniel Chester French, represents John Harvard, though no known likeness of him exists; the model was Sherman Hoar, class of 1882. John Harvard, who lived from 1607 to 1638, graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and emigrated to America in 1637. At his death he left his library and half of his estate to the "colledge at Newtowne," established by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1636. In appreciation of his generosity, the "colledge" was renamed Harvard College in 1638, when the first students enrolled.

Cambridge, Massachusetts · United States