Shad Hall
Address70, North Harvard Street, Boston (Allston), MA, United States of America, 02163
Site Number269
Building Root Number
05003
Architect (Original)
Kallmann McKinnell & Wood
Constructed
1989
Building Acquired 1989
Building Acquired 1989
StatusActive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named after John Sigsbee Rees Shad (1923-1994), former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. ambassador to The Netherlands, and Harvard benefactor.Historical NotesShad Hall was designed as a fitness and recreation facility for Harvard Business School by Kallmann McKinnell and Wood of Boston and completed in 1989. It received the Harleston Parker Medal from the Boston Society of Architects in 1990 for being "the most beautiful piece of architecture, building, monument or structure within the limits of the City of Boston or of the Metropolitan Parks District".Additional Information1990 winner of the Boston Society of Architects Harleston Parker Medal.
HBS Archives Photograph Collection: Buildings and Grounds, 1908-2006. (1908). Baker Business Library Historical Collections call number Arch P1
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Campbell, Robert, 1937-. “Academic Fitness: Shad Hall, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.” Architecture: The AIA Journal, vol. 79, no. 3, Mar. 1990, pp. 128–33.
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