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Ludcke House

Address26, Harvard Way, Boston (Allston), MA, United States of America, 02163
Previous Address690, Soldiers Field Road, Boston (Allston), MA, United States of America, 02163
Site Number244
Alternate Names Alumni House, Faculty Club
Building Root Number 05090
Architect (Original)
Building Acquired 1926
Constructed 1926
StatusActive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named after Gipp L. Ludcke (1900-1995), Boston investment banker and Harvard Business School benefactor.Historical NotesLudcke Hall is one of the original buildings on the Harvard Business School campus. It was designed by McKim Mead and White of New York City and completed in 1926. It originally served as the business school's faculty club and today contains administrative offices. It was funded by a gift of George Fisher Baker.
Additional Information
HBS Archives Photograph Collection: Buildings and Grounds, 1908-2006. (1908). Baker Business Library Historical Collections call number Arch P1
“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.
“Architects Chosen for New Group of Harvard Buildings.” Cambridge Chronicle, 17 Jan. 1925, p. 17.
“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/.
“Architectural Plans for the Harvard Business School Buildings to Be Erected Near the Harvard Stadium.” Cambridge Tribune, 17 Jan. 1925, p. 4.
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