Massachusetts Hall

Massachusetts Hall is the oldest surviving building at Harvard College, the first institution of higher learning in the British colonies in America, and second-oldest academic building in the United States after the Wren Building at the College of William & Mary.

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Type: Dormitory
Description: in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Address: 11, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Harvard Square and General MacArthur Square.

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. Harvard Square is situated 400 feet southwest of Massachusetts Hall.

General MacArthur Square

Square

General MacArthur Square is a 0.2-acre, V-shaped park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, owned by the city. The city's first 24-hour, freestanding public toilet was installed in the park in 2015.

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. Harvard Art Museums is situated 1,100 feet east of Massachusetts Hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Cambridge Historic District and Baldwin.

Old Cambridge Historic District

Neighborhood

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The Old Cambridge Historic District is a historic district encompassing a residential neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts that dates to colonial times.

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.

Riverside

Suburb

Riverside, also known as "Area 7", is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts bounded by Massachusetts Avenue on the north, River Street on the east, the Charles River on the south, and JFK Street on the west.

Massachusetts Hall

Categories: university building, building, and residential building
Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.37445° or 42° 22′ 28″ north

Longitude

-71.11829° or 71° 7′ 6″ west

Elevation

26 feet (8 metres)

Open location code

87JC9VFJ+QM

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29938509

OpenStreetMap feature

building=dormitory

GeoNames ID

4943347

Wikidata ID

Q6784282

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Turkish—“Massachusetts Hall” goes by many names.

Armenian: “Մասսաչուսեթս Հոլ”
Bengali: “ম্যাসাচুসেটস হল (হার্ভার্ড বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়)”
Bengali: “ম্যাসাচুসেটস হল”
Chinese: “馬薩諸塞大廳”
Turkish: “Massachusetts Hall”

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