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Cash House

Address660, Soldiers Field Road, Boston (Allston), MA, United States of America, 02163
Site Number253
Alternate Names Glass Hall
Building Root Number 05097
Architect (Original)
Building Acquired 1926
Constructed 1926
StatusActive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named for James I. Cash the first tenured professor of color at the Harvard Business School. Cash served as a member of the faculty from 1976 to 2003 and fought for racial equity at the school. The building had been previously known as Glass Hall for Carter Glass, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1918 to 1920 under Woodrow Wilson and later a U.S. Senator from Virginia. Glass, who helped draft the Glass-Steagall Act and create the FDIC, was also a supporter of white supremacy and helped enact discriminatory voting policies. The building was renamed in 2020.Historical NotesCash House 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. Originally this building housed the faculty quarters and medical offices for the Business School. Today it contains offices for the school. 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
“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.
“Architectural Plans for the Harvard Business School Buildings to Be Erected Near the Harvard Stadium.” Cambridge Tribune, 17 Jan. 1925, p. 4.
“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/.
“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.
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
“Offices in Cambridge, Mass, by SZB Associates.” Architectural Record, vol. 167, no. 1, 1980, p. 96, usmodernist.org/AR/AR-1980-01.pdf.
Harvard University Archives. Construction Management Records, ca. 1953-1986. Harvard University Archives call number UAV 298.8000
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