Harvard Square blog from Gina

Cambridge is full of many architectural significant buildings in literature, music, performance arts, and film. Below is a tour of these significant buildings.  1.) The Harvard art museums are the oldest museums at Harvard. It is home to many European and American art from the middle ages to present day. The first of the three here is the Fogg museum. The Fogg museum is opened in 1895 and was designed by architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot. This joint teaching facility and art museum was the first purpose built structure made for the specialized training of art scholars in North America.  2.) The next Harvard museum Busch-Reisinger Museum. This museum was created in 1901 and is dedicated to the study of all modes and periods of art from central and northern Europe, with extra emphasis on Germanic art. This museum holds noteworthy contemporary and postwar art from the German-speaking areas of Europe.  3.) The next museum at Harvard is the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. This mus

     The Harvard Radcliffe Quadrangle was originally built as the dorms for any female who attended Harvard College. Antrhop house (now considered Adam's house) was the original housing that was built on the Harvard College campus, but only housed males. Later in 1901, the Radcliffe Quadrangle was  created as housing for female students and continued to be built until 1937. The quad has ever since been changing and being remodeled. The quad now houses both males and females and is no longer used to separate females from males. The quad is an amazing historical group of buildings at Harvard College and is a great representation of how Harvard has changed with societies norms over the years. For example, you can see how equal rights for females has progressed over the years. Transportation from the quad has also made it a lot easier for students to attend classes such as the invention of motorized scooters and electric bikes. Overall, I believe that the Harvard Radcliffe Quadrangle s

       The Mt. Auburn Cemetery and The Old Burial Ground Cemetery are unique in their own ways. The Mt. Auburn Cemetery is very significant for the city of Boston because it represented the new way of viewing death in New England. This cemetery was founded in 1831 in comparison to the Old Burial Ground which was founded around 1635. The Mt. Auburn Cemetery is the first landscape that was designed with a large scale that was open to the public. People can not only mourn, (which is typically the scene at the Old Burial Ground which was founded much earlier and does not have a lot of nature such as trees or walking areas), but they can enjoy the nature around them. Attached below is a map of the Mt. Auburn Cemetery. The memorials stand much farther apart than the memorials at the Old Burial Ground in hopes to get rid of the overcrowding that was happening in the Boston cemeteries and population in general.  Mount Auburn Cemetery: A New American Landscape (Teaching with Historic Places) (U

     On July 3, 1775, legend has it that George Washington took command of the Continental Army. This was depicted through art pieces, poetry, etc., but later became known more publicly. The Washington Elm tree was a symbol of not just revolutionary history but also the city of Cambridges past. During the 1820's, Everett spoke up about the elm tree and coincidentally Cambridge's population nearly doubled throughout that decade and by the time 1845 came around the population nearly doubled again! This tree then became known as a relic, but not only for its significance to the Revolutionary war, but also because it is seen as a representation of the town's founding. The myths following the Washington Elm spread throughout many decades and it became enclosed by a fenced area that you can somewhat see in the tree picture attached down below from the before picture in order to protect its significance. Rev. Charles W. Upham of Salem even recognized the tree in his speech on Inde

 Throughout the last 25 years, the Harvard square has changed drastically, mostly because of the demand for more offices, housing, and parking spaces as well as the real-estate boom. The Harvard square used to be home to many local, independent stores, but is now taken over by many large chains. One building/store that is a good example of this discussion is the playa bowls. Playa bowls is a very common and fairly new store that was brought to Cambridge and is now at the center of the square. This store does not hold much value to the square and is located in many different locations around the country. However, the Pinocchio's Pizza restaurant that is owned by a local family (my friends family in fact) is able to maintain that locally owned independent store feel. This has impacted Harvard square's growth because these chains have almost modernized the square while also keeping some historical significance. https://www.milforddailynews.com/story/lifestyle/health-fitness/2020/1

     One possible topic for my final paper will be the layout of the Harvard Quadrangle dorm rooms.  The Harvard "quad" is the house on campus that every freshman frowns upon getting due to it's distance from classes and the rest of the houses on campus. The quad consists of three houses: Pforzheimer, Cabot, and Currier. I am interested in the layout of these houses since it used to be the Harvard Radcliffe college (only women lived there). I am curious if the layout is different that the other houses since only females used to be housed there. Are the bathrooms designed differently? Are there more singles? Is is more modern that the other houses? These are all questions that I would be thinking about while writing my final paper. https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/1st-circuit-upholds-harvards-use-of-race-in-admissions https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/1st-circuit-upholds-harvards-use-of-race-in-admissions          Another possible topic for my final paper woul