Mellon Hall
Address38, Harvard Way, Boston (Allston), MA, United States of America, 02163
Previous Address670, Soldiers Field Road, Boston (Allston), MA, United States of America, 02163
Site Number256
Building Root Number
05065
Architect (Original)
McKim, Mead & White
Building Acquired
1926
Constructed 1926
Constructed 1926
StatusActive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named after Andrew W. Mellon (LL.D. 1926), a Pittsburgh banker and U.S. Treasury Secretary from 1921 to 1932, through a gift of George Fisher Baker.Historical NotesMellon Hall is one of the original buildings on the Harvard Business School campus. It was designed as a residence hall by McKim Mead and White of New York City and completed in 1926.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.
“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/.
“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.
“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.
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
Harvard University Archives. Construction Management Records, ca. 1953-1986. Harvard University Archives call number UAV 298.8000