Boylston Hall
1886
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General information
Type	Classroom and academic office building
Location	Harvard Yard,Harvard University
Year built	1858, 1871 (addition)
Renovated	1959
Design and construction
Architects	Paul Schulze Peabody and Stearns (addition)
Renovating team
Renovating firm	Benjamin Thompson and Associates

Boylston Hall is aHarvard University classroom and academic office building lecture hall near the southwest corner ofHarvard Yard,Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ward Nicholas Boylston had left a bequest to Harvard for the building in 1828. It was built in 1858 to designs inRundbogenstil byPaul Schulze of Schulze and Schoen. It was clad in stone, as specified by the donor, specificallyRockport granite,^[1] and had ahip roof. In 1871,Peabody and Stearns replaced the roof with amansarded third floor.^[2]

It has been speculated that it stands on the homesite of the Rev.Thomas Hooker, first minister to thefirst church in Cambridge, but this is not well established.^[3]

It originally served as a chemistry building, with a laboratory and classrooms, and later housed the anatomical museum ofJeffries Wyman, Professor of Comparative Anatomy, who in 1866 became the first curator of thePeabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,^[4] as well as a mineralogical collection. In the 20th century, it became the first home of theHarvard-Yenching Institute.^[2]

Boylston Hall was gut renovated in 1959 by the architectural firm ofBenjamin Thompson and Associates, and is considered an early example of the reuse of sound old buildings ("adaptive reconstruction"),^[5][6] "juxtaposing glass and steel with historic details".^[7] It functioned as the university language center. It houses the offices of the Harvard Classics Department.

Its Fong Lecture Hall seats 144.^[8]

42°22′24″N71°07′02″W / 42.373332°N 71.117327°W /42.373332; -71.117327

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