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Peabody Terrace Complex
Peabody Terrace Complex

Peabody Terrace Complex

Address900, Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, 02138
Site Number425
Alternate Names Married Student Housing
Building Root Number 06106
Architect (Original)
Constructed 1964
Building Acquired 1964
StatusActive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named after Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847–1936), a minister and professor of theology at Harvard.Historical NotesPeabody Terrace was designed for Harvard by Sert, Jackson and Gourley of Cambridge and completed in 1964. It was built as housing for Harvard affiliates, a role it continues to serve.
Additional Information
HBS Archives Photograph Collection: Buildings and Grounds, 1908-2006. (1908). Baker Business Library Historical Collections call number Arch P1
Kahatt, Sharif S. La Construccioìn Del Ideal Urbano: Peabody Terrace Y La Sintesis De La Arquitectura Y El Urbanismo En La Obra Joseì Luis Sert. Lima, Peruì: Revista Ures, 2006. Loeb Design Library call number NA7195.S7 K34 2006.
Aufiero, Tod A. Housing for an Urban Institution: The Re-designing of Peabody Terrace as a Critical Analysis. Dissertation Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1985. Loeb Design Library call number NA7195.S7 A84x.
Peabody Press [newsletter], 1965-1967). Harvard University Archives call number HUD 3676.1264.
Matas, Emiliano Lopez. 6107 MSD: Peabody Terrace, Claves De Un Proceso De DisenÞo Liderado Por Josep Lluiìs Sert. Dissertation, Universidad Politeìcnica De Catalunya, ETSA De Barcelona, 2012. Loeb Design Library call number NA1313.S38 M374 2012.
Boston Society of Architects. The Boston Society of Architects Awards the Harleston Parker Medal to Sert, Jackson & Gourley for Excellence in the Design and Construction of Peabody Terrace, Harvard University, 6-20-67 [broadside], 1967. Harvard University Archives call number HUB 1669.5 Pf.
General Information by and about Peabody Terrace. Harvard University Archives call number HUB 1669.
Lym, Glenn Robert. Images of Home at Peabody Terrace. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1975. Harvard University Archives call number HU 90.10800.20.
Torres, Andrew Michael. From Avant-garde to Harvard Yard : José Luis Sert, Urban Design, and Harvard University. Undergraduate thesis, Harvard University, 2002. Harvard University Archives call number HU 92.2002.122 and Loeb Design Library call number NA1313.S38 T66 2002.
Cass, Gilbert, et al. Harvard University Married Student Housing. Thesis, Harvard University, 1965. Loeb Design Library Thesis CAS.
Program for Harvard College. Better Housing for the Married Graduate Student : A Prime Need in Creating a Community of Scholars. Loeb Design Library call number NAB 5275 Har MICRO F103447.
"Harvard's New Married Student Housing." Progressive Architecture. December 1964, Vol 45:12, p. 122-33 [Contains plans].
Sert, José Luis, and Frances L. Loeb Library. The Josep Lluis Sert Collection. (1952). Print. Harvard Loeb Design Library Special Collections.
Harvard University Archives. Construction Management Records, ca. 1953-1986. Harvard University Archives call number UAV 298.8000
Cott, Lee. "Why Architects Love Peabody Terrace." Architecture Boston, vol. 6, no. 4, Aug. 2003, pp. 20–25.
Goldhagen, Sarah Williams. "The Production of Locality in Josep Luis Sert’s Peabody Terrace." Harvard Design Magazine, no. 22, Spring-Summer 2005.
Hale, Jonathan. "Ten Years Past at Peabody Terrace." Progressive Architecture, Oct. 1974, p. 72.
"Married Student Housing, Harvard." Architectural Design, vol. 35, Aug. 1965, pp. 377–82.
“Sert Receives Award For Peabody Terrace.” Harvard Crimson, 21 Oct. 1965, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1965/10/21/sert-receives-award-for-peabody-terrace/.
McManus, Otile. "Why the Public (Still) Hates Peabody Terrace." Architecture Boston, vol. 6, no. 4, Aug. 2003, pp. 26–28.
"Peabody Terrace housing, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964; architects: Sert, Jackson & Associates." Process: architecture, no. 34, Dec. 1982, pp. 96–100.
Anderson, Stanford, 1934-2016. “Universities High-Rise on the Charles River.” World Architecture, vol. 3, Jan. 1966, p. 58.
Lam, Kelly K.W. and LeBoeuf, David H.A. “Peabody Terrace Complex Undergoing Renovations.” Harvard Crimson, 18 Apr. 2011, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/4/18/donovan-peabody-terrace-construction/.
“Married Student Dormitories.” Architectural Record, vol. 134, no. 3, Sept. 1963, pp. 208–09, usmodernist.org/AR/AR-1963-09.pdf.
“Married Students Residence Completed at Harvard.” Architectural Record, vol. 136, no. 5, 1964, pp. 12–13, usmodernist.org/AR/AR-1964-11.pdf.
1966 winner of the Boston Society of Architects Harleston Parker Medal.
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