Sever Hall by Henry Hobson Richardson at GreatBuildings

Architect

Henry Hobson Richardson

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Location

Cambridge, Massachusetts map

Date

1878 to 1880 timeline

Building Type

academic

Construction System

brick bearing masonry

Climate

temperate

Context

urban park campus

Style

Richardsonian Romanesque

Notes

At Harvard University. large hipped roof

Images

Exterior photo showing facade brickwork detail

Exterior photo of facade showing windows and semi-turret

Photo, exterior overview

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Photo, distant overview, through trees, historical

Photo, exterior overview at night, historical

Photo, exterior overview, historical

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Aerial view of Sever Hall

1 street view of Sever Hall

Photo, large size, exterior overview

Drawings

Site Plan Drawing	Lower Plan Drawing	Drawing
Drawing	Elevation Drawing	Upper Plan Drawing
Elevation Drawing

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Sources on Sever Hall

Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. ISBN 0-442-21668-8. LC 84-3543. NA2750.C55 1984. drawings and diagrams, p98-99. — Updated edition available at Amazon.com

Donald Corner and Jenny Young, University of Oregon. Slides from photographers' collection. PCD.2350.1012.1143.28, exterior photo showing facade brickwork detail. PCD.2350.1012.1143.27, exterior photo of facade showing windows and semi-turret.

Jeffrey Karl Ochsner. H. H. Richardson, Complete Architectural Works Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982. Exterior photo of front face of building, f71c, p198. — 1984 Edition available at Amazon.com

Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com

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