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Wyss Hall

Address20, North Harvard Street, Boston (Allston), MA, United States of America, 02163
Site Number259
Alternate Names Sherman Hall
Building Root Number 05099
Architect (Original)
Building Acquired 1926
Constructed 1926
StatusActive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named after Hansjörg Wyss, Swiss entrepreneur and businessman and Harvard benefactor.Historical NotesWyss 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. The building was funded as a gift of George Fisher Baker and originally named Sherman Hall after John Sherman, an Ohio Representative and Senator. Today it contains offices for the school.
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.
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
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