Faculty Club
Address20, Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, 02138
Site Number875
Building Root Number
00951
Architect (Original)
Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott
Land Acquired
1925-1929
Constructed 1931
Building Acquired 1931
Constructed 1931
Building Acquired 1931
StatusActive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named after its original function which was a private club for Harvard faculty members.Historical NotesThe Harvard Faculty Club was designed by Boston architects Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott and completed in 1931. Harvard purchased the property which housed the Colonial Club in 1928 and merged the two clubs together. It is built on the former site of the William and Henry James home. It was funded by a gift of Allston Burr (A.B. 1889) in addition with other funds mainly from the Harvard corporation.Additional InformationHarvard University Archives. Records of the Harvard University Faculty Club, 1929-. Harvard University Archives call number HUD 3382.xx
Harvard University Archives. Records of the Faculty Club, 1933-1955. Harvard University Archives call number UAV 381.xx.
Simpson, Sidney Post. The Harvard Faculty Club. Cambridge, Mass., 1939. Print. Harvard Law School Library Special Collections, HOLLIS number 004173056
Jacobbi, Marianne. "Harvard Faculty Club." Boston Magazine Sept. 1984: 266. Print.
Harvard University Archives. Construction Management Records, ca. 1953-1986. Harvard University Archives call number UAV 298.8000
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
Photographic Views of the Harvard Faculty Club, 1930-1990 (1930). Harvard University Archives call number HUV 152
Maycock, Susan E., and Charles Sullivan. Building old Cambridge: architecture and development. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2016. Print. Lamont Library call number NA735.C28 M39 2016; Loeb Design Library call number NA735.C28 M39 2016.
Harvard University Archives. General information about the physical building, Harvard University Archives call number HUB 1380.
“Colonial Club House to Be Replaced by New Building.” Harvard Crimson, 7 Jan. 1930, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1930/1/7/colonial-club-house-to-be-replaced/.
“New $300,000 Faculty Club of Harvard University Is Opened for Inspection: Provides Meeting Place For Instructors and Officers of Administration--Membership to Include From 900 to 1000, All on Active List to Be Connected With University--First Meeting Held in Building.” Daily Boston Globe, 10 Jan. 1931, p. 22.
This building has been designated by the University Planning Office as having a Notable Interior.
