Welcome to Harvard Hall! Originally built in 1644, the first Harvard Hall began to rot only 25 years after its construc…
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Welcome to Harvard Hall! Originally built in 1644, the first Harvard Hall began to rot only 25 years after its construction and was deemed uninhabitable. A second Harvard Hall was constructed in the late 1670s, but in 1764 it suffered a fire that destroyed the building as well as the scientific instruments and nearly 5,000 books housed there. The third and current Harvard Hall, completed in 1766, is believed to have been the first college building in America devoted to solely academic use. In…
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