Statue of John Harvard
John Harvard is an 1884 sculpture in bronze by Daniel Chester French at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It honors clergyman John Harvard, whose substantial deathbed bequest to the "schoale or Colledge" recently undertaken by the Massachusetts…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: Statue in Cambridge, Massachusetts of Harvard University founder
- Also known as: “John Harvard statue” and “John Harvard Statue”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Harvard Square and Houghton Library.
Harvard Square
Square
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Harvard Square is a triangular plaza at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street and John F. Kennedy Street near the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Houghton Library
Library
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Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to Widener Library, Lamont Library, and Loeb House, is Harvard University's primary repository for rare books and manuscripts.
Harvard Art Museums
Museum
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The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and four research centers: the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, the Harvard Art Museums Archives, and the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Cambridge Historic District and Riverside.
Old Cambridge Historic District
Neighborhood
The Old Cambridge Historic District is a historic district encompassing a residential neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts that dates to colonial times.
Riverside
Neighborhood
Riverside, also known as "Area 7", is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts bounded by Massachusetts Avenue on the east, River Street on the south, the Charles River on the west, and JFK Street on the north.
Baldwin
Neighborhood
Baldwin, formerly known as Agassiz and also called Harvard North, Area 8 or Agassiz/Baldwin, is one of the thirteen neighborhoods of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Statue of John Harvard
- Category: statue
- Location: Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Russian—“Statue of John Harvard” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “John Harvard Statue”
- Chinese: “約翰哈佛雕像”
- French: “statue de John Harvard”
- French: “Statue de John Harvard”
- Korean: “존 하버드 동상”
- Persian: “مجسمه جان هاروارد”
- Russian: “Памятник Джону Гарварду”
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