Baker Library/Bloomberg
Address25, Harvard Way, Boston (Allston), MA, United States of America, 02163
Site Number241
Building Root Number
05000
Architect (Original)
McKim, Mead & White
Land Acquired
1918
Constructed 1926
Building Acquired 1926
Constructed 1926
Building Acquired 1926
StatusActive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named for George F. Baker, Sr. (1840 – 1931), New York banker and Harvard Business School benefactor. Bloomberg Center is named for William Henry Bloomberg, the late father of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.Historical NotesBaker Library, a gift of George Fisher Baker, is the centerpiece of the original 1926 Harvard Business School campus, and was designed by McKim Mead and White of New York. In 2005, the building underwent a major renovation and the creation of the Bloomberg Center, designed by Robert A. M. Stern of New York.Additional InformationHarvard University Archives. Construction Management Records, ca. 1953-1986. Harvard University Archives call number UAV 298.8000
Weber, Paul J. Photographs of Harvard University Buildings and Grounds Taken by Paul J. Weber, Ca. 1929-1931 and 1939. Harvard University Archives call number HUV 2329
HBS Archives Photograph Collection: Buildings and Grounds, 1908-2006. (1908). Baker Business Library Historical Collections call number Arch P1
Merkel, Jayne. “Image: Today’s Big Man On Campus.” Architectural Record, 2005, pp. 11–13, usmodernist.org/AR/AR-2005-04-S.pdf.
Greeley, Alexander H. "After Facelift, Baker Reopens for Business." The Harvard Crimson, 22 Sept. 2005, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/9/22/after-facelift-baker-reopens-for-business/.
Jalli, Erica K. "Renovation Planned For HBS Library." The Harvard Crimson, 1 Oct. 2003, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/10/1/renovation-planned-for-hbs-library-when/.
“B-School Begins $185M Renovation Project.” The Harvard Crimson, 12 Dec. 1996, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1996/12/12/b-school-begins-185m-renovation-project-pithe/.
“George Fisher Baker Gives Five Million to University.” The Harvard Crimson, 2 June 1924, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1924/6/2/george-fisher-baker-gives-five-million/.
“Baker Library, Renewed.” Harvard Magazine, Nov-Dec. 2005, https://harvardmagazine.com/2005/11/baker-library-renewed.html.
Campbell, Robert. “Harvard Library Is Back in Business; Baker Renovation Offers Lessons from Past and Present.” Boston Globe, 6 Nov. 2005, p. N.9.
“Architects Chosen for New Group of Harvard Buildings.” Cambridge Chronicle, 17 Jan. 1925, p. 17.
“Architectural Plans for the Harvard Business School Buildings to Be Erected Near the Harvard Stadium.” Cambridge Tribune, 17 Jan. 1925, p. 4.
“Harvard’s New Business School to Be a $5,000,000 Group: Winning Design, by McKim, Meade & White, Selected Out of Forty-Nine Submitted.” American Builder, vol. 39, no. 5, Aug. 1925, pp. 118–19.
“Architects for New Harvard Buildings: McKim, Mead & White Will Design $5,006,000 Group of Structures For Business School.” Boston Daily Globe, 12 Jan. 1925, p. A6.
de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room
Bloomberg Center