Quincy House
Address58, Plympton Street, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, 02138
Site Number969
Alternate Names
Eighth House,
Previous Building Number
976
Building Root Number 03310
Building Root Number 03310
Architect (Original)
Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbott
Constructed
1959
Building Acquired 1959
Building Acquired 1959
StatusActive
Site Name HistoryThe site is named after Josiah Quincy III (1772-1864), who was President of Harvard from 1829 to 1845.Historical NotesQuincy House is comprised of two buildings, Stone Hall and New Quincy. Stone Hall was designed as a Harvard residence hall by Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott of Boston. Then called Mather Hall, it was originally a part of Leverett House until the expansion of the "house" system in 1960 when it became affiliated with the newly conceived Quincy House, one of Harvard's twelve undergraduate residential communities. The New Quincy House residence hall opened for students in the autumn of 1959.Additional InformationPhotographic Views of Quincy House, 1957-1970s. (1957). Harvard University Archives call number HUV 563
Records of Quincy House, 1967, Harvard University Archives call numbers UAV 721.380, UAV 721.367.
Harvard University. Quincy House (blueprints) 1958. Loeb Design Library call number PN 9.136 CC.
Carr, Wendell Robert. Quincy House: Its Art and Architecture. Compiled for the Tenth Anniversary of the House. Harvard University Archives call number HUB 1724.7.
General information by and about Quincy House. Harvard University Archives call number HUB 1724.2.
"New dormitory designs: [a new kind of residence hall for students of Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.]" Magazine of Cambridge, vol. 18:1 Nov. 1957, pp. 20-23.
Heskel, Julia. Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott: Past to Present. Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, 1999.
“House Profiles.” The Harvard Crimson [Cambridge, MA], 20 Mar. 1963, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1963/3/20/house-profiles-pbia-foreword-to-freshmenib.
“Buildings in the News.” Architectural Record, vol. 126, no. 5, 1959, p. 10, usmodernist.org/AR/AR-1959-11.pdf.
Boffey, Philip M. “Corporation Approves Designs for New House.” The Harvard Crimson, 28 Sept. 1957, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1957/9/28/corporation-approves-designs-for-new-house/.
“Quincy House, Non-Resident House, Harvard-Yenching Library, Addition to Leverett House, Harvard University.” Architectural Record, Jan. 1959, pp. 159–65.
“The Eighth House: Quincy House, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.” Progressive Architecture, vol. 41, no. 9, Reinhold PubCorp, etc, 1960, pp. 134-.
Anasu, Laya and Conway, Madeline R. “Newly Renovated Old Quincy Renamed Stone Hall.” The Harvard Crimson, 7 Sept. 2013, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/9/7/old-quincy-stone-hall/.
Furigay, Junina and Shimozaki, Kenton K. “Quincy Residents Add Gender-Neutral Bathrooms.” The Harvard Crimson, 20 Oct. 2017, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/10/20/quincy-floor-gender-neutral/.
Miraval, Nathalie R. and Robbins, Rebecca D. “Quincy Groundbreaking Marks the Beginning of Renewal.” The Harvard Crimson, 3 May 2012, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/5/3/quincy-renewal-groundbreaking-construction/.
Robbins, Monika L.S. and Rouse, Hana N. “Harvard Announces Renovation Plans for Old Quincy House.” The Harvard Crimson, 20 May 2011, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/5/20/quincy-old-house-smith/.
Welch Jr., Claude E. “Eighth House Will Honor President Quincy; Groundbreaking Planned for Early March.” The Harvard Crimson, 18 Feb. 1958, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1958/2/18/eighth-house-will-honor-president-quincy/.
“Plan New Design for Harvard’s ‘Eighth House.’” Cambridge Chronicle, 3 Oct. 1957, p. 1.
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