Dudley Community
Dudley Community | |
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Nonresidential House | |
Harvard University | |
Location | 10 DeWolfe Street, Cambridge MA |
Established | 1935 |
Named for | Thomas Dudley |
Sister college | Silliman College |
Dean | Laura Chivers |
HoCo chairs | David Sabot |
Website | dudley |
Dudley Community (formerly called Dudley House) is an alternative to
History
A decentralized commuter center was established in 1935 called Dudley Hall, named after the former Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony Thomas Dudley.[6] Coinciding with the founding of the Dudley Co-operative Society (Dudley Co-op)—Harvard's off-campus cooperative housing dormitory—it was renamed Dudley House and officially became part of the Harvard House system in 1958.[7][8] It moved from Dunster Street to the Ambassador Hotel on Cambridge Street in 1963.[9] Dudley House consolidated operations and moved to Lehman Hall in the southwest corner of Harvard Yard in 1967.[10][11] In Fall 2019, the newly renamed Dudley Community moved to the 2nd Floor of 10 DeWolfe St.
In 1961, the Dudley House dining hall was the first at Harvard to go
Lehman Hall
Lehman Hall is a Georgian-revival building by
In keeping with its original function as the home of Harvard's Bursar's Office – for part of which time it was known as "The Counting House"[18] – its "heroic parade of pilasters, a bit overblown admittedly, [are] doubtless intended to mark the principal frontispiece, as Lehman is, of Yard to [Harvard] Square" (as Shand-Tucci put it).[19] Its "main chamber reaches practically the entire height of the building, is finished in delicately modeled cream plaster ... an extraordinarily light, cheerily simple room. A balcony reaches about part of its upper circumference."[17] Bainbridge Bunting wrote that its "public function is announced by an architectural frontispiece of giant pilasters and arched windows repeated on both major elevations. The building's mass also is sufficient to announce its official role and to define the triangular open space on its east side, although the pilasters are out of scale with other buildings in the Yard." The plaza immediately in front of its Yard-facing elevation once had a sculpture by Henry Moore.[13]
References
- ^ "Dudley Community". dso.college.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ^ Comstock, Craig (7 May 1959). "Still Needed: 'Real House' for Non-Residents". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ "Dudley Co-Op". Harvard University. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ "Dudley House | Harvard University - The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences". Harvard University. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ Leifer, Valia (2 November 2016). "Dudley Celebrates 25th Anniversary as Graduate Student Center". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ "Dudley House History". Harvard University. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ "Fifty years of free-spirited living". Harvard Gazette. 5 June 2008. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
- ^ "The Center for High Energy Metaphysics". Retrieved 20 May 2019.
- ^ Paisner, Bruce (2 May 1963). "Harvard Buys Ambassador Hotel, To Replace Dudley, Little Halls". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ Paisner, Bruce (30 November 1962). "University Reveals Plans to Move Dudley Students to Lehman Hall". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
- ^ Greenhouse, Linda (6 May 1965). "Dudley House Finds Home; Will Move to Lehman Hall". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ "Dudley House Will Open Dining Hall To 'Cliffe Commuters, Co-op Residents". The Harvard Crimson. 9 November 1961. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-0674372917.
- ^ "Many New Sights Greet Alumni Around Square". The Harvard Crimson. 1925-11-21. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
- ^ "Harvard University. Corporation. Records of early Harvard buildings, 1710-1969: an inventory". Oasis.lib.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
- ISBN 978-0674377332.
- ^ a b "A Touch of the Old, More of the New – A Changed Harvard and Square Greet Students". Christian Science Monitor. September 25, 1925. p. 1.
- ^ "Workmen Begin On New Administration Building | News | The Harvard Crimson". Thecrimson.com. 1924-10-08. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
- ISBN 978-1568982809.