Baker Library/Bloomberg Center
Baker Library/Bloomberg Center | |
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Boston, Massachusetts | |
Country | United States |
Named for | George Fisher Baker William Henry Bloomberg |
Completed | 1927 |
Renovated | 2005 |
Renovation cost | $53.4 million |
Owner | Harvard University |
Technical details | |
Floor area | 168,000 square feet (15,600 m2) |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | McKim, Mead & White |
Renovating team | |
Architect(s) | Robert A. M. Stern Architeects |
The Baker Library/Bloomberg Center is a building complex at Harvard Business School on the campus of Harvard University in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It includes the Baker Library, built in 1927, and the Bloomberg Center, completed in 2005.
Overview
The construction of the Baker Library was completed in 1927.[1] It was named for philanthropist George Fisher Baker.[1] From 1930 to 2007, the bell in the tower came from the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, Russia; it had been donated by Charles Richard Crane.[1]
The Bloomberg Center was built in 2003–2005.
The complex includes 67 faculty offices, the de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room, named for alumnus Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien,[2] the Stamps Reading Room and the Frist Faculty Commons, named for philanthropist Thomas F. Frist Jr.[1][3]
Architectural design
The 1927 building was designed in the
Library collections
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The library collections contain many rare books and documents of business history.[7][8][9]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Baker Library/Bloomberg Center". Harvard Business School. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
- ^ "The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room". Harvard Business School. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
- ^ "Frist Faculty Commons". Harvard Business School. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
- ^ Rybczynski, Witold (October 14, 2014). "Witold Rybczynski: Tata Hall and the Art of Adding to the Harvard Business School Campus". Architect Magazine. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
- ^ "ABOUT THE LIBRARY". Baker Library/Bloomberg Center. Harvard Business School. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
- ^ "Baker Library, Renewed". Harvard Magazine. November–December 2005.
- JSTOR 40294027.
- JSTOR 3114008.
- doi:10.2307/3110899.
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