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Divinity Hall, Harvard Divinity School

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The building is a rectangular two-story brick building, laid in Flemish bond, with only minimal brownstone trim. It has a hip roof that is only broken by a gable at the center of the long side, part of a projecting central section three bays wide. The build has a pair of entrances on either side of
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giving the dedicatory speech, "The Christian Ministry." It was the first Harvard building constructed outside Harvard Yard. As George Huntston Williams wrote in his 1954 history of the Divinity School, theological students needed to be isolated from undergraduates lest they drink up "more of the
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Today, the building houses classrooms, faculty offices, and several administrative offices, including the Office of Ministry Studies, the Office of Religion and Public Life, and the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging.
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In its early days, Divinity Hall contained the entire Divinity School. It was later used as a dormitory, then classrooms. Notable residents have included
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spirit of the University than of the spirit of their profession." A decade later, on July 15, 1838,
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this central section, which are framed by Greek Revival Doric porticos.
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Divinity Hall, Harvard Divinity School is located in Massachusetts
Divinity Hall, Harvard Divinity School is located in the United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts
42°22′43″N 71°06′51″W / 42.3786°N 71.1143°W / 42.3786; -71.1143
MPS
86002071
Harvard Divinity School
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Solomon Willard
Thomas Sumner
William Ellery Channing
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Divinity School Address
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theodore Parker
George Santayana
George S. Hutchings
National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
ISBN
0847688429
"MACRIS inventory record for Divinity Hall"
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