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Harnden Tavern

The Harnden Tavern, also known as the Col. Joshua Harnden Tavern, is a historic tavern that was built in 1770 at 430 Salem Street in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The Col. Joshua Harnden Tavern was built during the last third of the eighteenth century in the town of Wilmington, Massachusetts. The site is on Lot No. One in the "Land of Nod," in the most northerly part of the Charlestown Grant. This imposing structure is an excellent surviving example of late-Georgian architecture. Joshua Harnden was the great-grandson of Richard Harnden, the first Englishman to settle in what is now North Wilmington. Joshua and his wife Sarah (Cornell) and their six children were the first family to occupy this house. During the Revolutionary War, Joshua served in Capt. Timothy Walker's Militia Co. Later he attained the rank of colonel shortly before his retirement. Joshua was elected to serve the Town of Wilmington as one of its three selectmen. After the Revolutionary War, he opened his home to the public as an inn or tavern. Col. Harnden died on September 9, 1807. His wife died on August 9, 1816. The property was sold to Dr. Silas Brown in 1818. It remained in the Brown - Hathaway family for 125 years. There is credible tradition that the tavern was used as a station on the Underground Railroad prior to the Civil War. The building was taken by the town by eminent domain in 1973, and presently houses the Wilmington Town Museum. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts References External links Wilmington Town Museum - official site
Harrington House (Weston, Massachusetts)

The Harrington House is a historic First Period house in Weston, Massachusetts, USA. With its oldest portion dating to about 1710, it is one of the town's oldest surviving buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Description and history The Harrington House stands in a rural-residential area of southwestern Weston, on the northwest side of Wellesley Street north of its junction with Sylvan Lane. The original main block is 2+1⁄2 stories in height and four bays wide, with a side gable roof and clapboard siding. To this, a two-bay section was added to the east. The two sections are clearly different structures, with differing framing details, and floorboards in their garret spaces oriented differently. Ells further expand the house to the side and rear. The interior is largely reflective of an early 19th-century remodeling effort, in which the original central chimney was replaced by two interior chimneys, and a central stair was added. The land on which the house stands was part of a grant of more than 600 acres (240 ha) to Robert Harrington in 1634. The oldest portion of the main block, apparently its eastern two thirds, was built about 1710 by Benjamin Harrington, Jr. The property remained in the hands of his descendants until 1906. The house is unusual as a well-preserved example of two houses that were joined, estimated to have been done c. 1800, around the same period as the interior restyling. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Weston, Massachusetts References
Hartwell House (Reading, Massachusetts)

The Hartwell House is a historic house in Reading, Massachusetts. The 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in 1918 for George Hartwell, an engineer. The most prominent feature of this Craftsman/Bungalow style house is its stonework: the front porch is supported by tapering piers of fieldstone, and the full length of its chimney is similarly composed. There is a decorative woodwork trellis at the peak of the front gable. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Reading, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts References
Harvard Extension School

La Harvard Extension School (HES) es la escuela de extensión de la Universidad de Harvard en Cambridge, Massachusetts. Forma parte de la División de Educación Continua de Harvard y opera bajo la Facultad de Artes y Ciencias de Harvard. Ofrece cursos de artes liberales y profesionales, certificados académicos, títulos de grado y postgrado y un programa premédico. Fundada en 1910 para extender los recursos de Harvard a la comunidad del Gran Boston, ha evolucionado con el tiempo hasta tener un alcance global. La escuela se dirige principalmente a estudiantes adultos y ofrece más de 900 cursos en el campus y en línea. Aunque la mayoría de los cursos son de matrícula abierta, la admisión a un programa de grado requiere notas específicas en los cursos de Harvard y la aceptación de una solicitud formal. Desde 2010, más de 500.000 estudiantes han tomado cursos en la escuela, de los cuales se estima que un 0,18% ha obtenido un título.​ Panorama académico La Harvard Extension School, que forma parte de la Facultad de Artes y Ciencias de Harvard, ofrece más de 900 cursos en el campus y en línea, la mayoría de ellos con inscripción abierta.​ El número de cursos ofrecidos ha crecido continuamente a lo largo de la historia de la escuela. Ropes, el primer decano de la escuela, dijo que "nuestro objetivo será dar a los jóvenes de Boston que hasta ahora se han visto impedidos de obtener una educación universitaria la misma instrucción que recibirían si fueran estudiantes de Harvard".​ En un estudio realizado en 2020 sobre los cursos de la Escuela de Extensión, el Consejo de Estudiantes de Harvard descubrió que 156 eran idénticos o casi idénticos a los cursos de la Escuela de Harvard y 95 eran equivalentes o similares, mientras que 344 eran exclusivos de la Escuela de Extensión.​​ Una guía del New York Times afirmaba que los profesores decían que algunos cursos eran "prácticamente idénticos".​ Los cursos de la Facultad costaban 5.966,25 dólares cada uno en 2020, y los de la Escuela de Extensión eran un 69% menos, con 1.840 dólares.​ Referencias Bibliografía Shinagel, Michael (2010). The Gates Unbarred: A History of University Extension at Harvard, 1910–2009. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674051355. Ganesh, Rukmini; Larson, M. Thorwald; Urbina, Fernando (23 de junio de 2020). «What's the Value of a Virtual Education?». The Harvard Crimson. Archivado desde el original el 24 de junio de 2020. Consultado el 24 de junio de 2020.
Harvard Forest

Harvard Forest is an ecological research area of 4,000 acres (16 km2) owned and managed by Harvard University and located in Petersham, Massachusetts. The property, in operation since 1907, includes one of North America's oldest managed forests, educational and research facilities, a museum, and recreation trails. Harvard Forest is open to the public. Research and education Harvard University conducts forest biology and conservation research on the property, including two major programs: the Long Term Ecological Research LTER program, funded by the National Science Foundation and established in 1988 to investigate New England's natural ecosystem; and the National Institute of Global Environmental Change program established and funded by the United States Department of Energy and emphasizing the study of physical and biological processes in relation to climate change. Harvard Forest is also slated to be the northeastern core site of the National Ecological Observatory Network. A number of smaller research programs are also conducted in Harvard Forest. This includes the Schoolyard LTER program, which allows K-12 classrooms to participate in the collection and analysis of environmental data Soils The forest is mostly supported by stony sandy loam podzol soils developed on glacial till and most commonly mapped as Berkshire, Becket, Skerry, Peru, and Marlow series. However, the classic podzol banded appearance is absent from many profiles due to obliteration of the pale eluvial (A2 or E) horizon by earthworm activity, which was noted in Harvard Forest in the 1920s. The Fisher Museum The Fisher Museum, open on weekends, offers exhibits on current research as well as twenty-three model dioramas portraying the history, conservation and management of New England woodlands. A sixty-seat lecture hall is located in the museum. The museum was named in honor of Richard Thornton Fisher, a Harvard faculty member and the founding director of Harvard Forest. Harvard Forest staff and students conduct educational programs and guided natural history tours for adults and children. Self-guided interpretive trails are located on the property, as well as several miles of primitive roads and trails, open to the public for non motorized recreation including hiking, wildlife observation, mountain biking, cross country skiing, hunting (in season) and similar passive pursuits. Camping, fires, and motorized vehicles are not allowed. An observation tower is located on the forest's Prospect Hill Tract. The Fisher Museum and primary trailhead are located on Massachusetts Route 32 north of Petersham center. Harvard Forest is part of an area of over 4,000 acres (16 km2) of protected open space including several properties owned by The Trustees of Reservations, state forest land, and the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Rutland Brook Sanctuary. References External links Map of Harvard Forest's Prospect Hill Tract Harvard University Map of Brooks Woodland Preserve. Rutland Brook Sanctuary Harvard Forest Harvard Forest Research topics The Fisher Museum and trails Harvard Forest Dioramas with high resolution images for download
Harvard Union

Harvard Union, now known as the Barker Center and once known as the Freshman Union, is a historic building on Quincy and Harvard Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts. History The union was designed McKim, Mead & White and built in 1900; it was their first commission on the Harvard University campus. It is a large 2-1/2 story brick building, with neo-Georgian styling that is more reminiscent of English Georgian architecture than that found in North America. The building was sensitively enlarged in 1911 (to design by Thomas Mott Shaw) to include the Varsity Club. The concept of the union was to provide a social space to students otherwise not members of the university's more exclusive final clubs. It was "made possible by the gift of Mr. Henry Lee Higginson, who was the donor also of Soldier's Field, and is a club which every member of the university may join; the annual dues are ten dollars. It has a very large and fine building, with a magnificent hall, comfortable reading-rooms, pleasant dining-rooms, and a good library. But its very size and comprehensiveness prevent it from fulfilling one of the most important functions of a club, the promotion of friendships. It serves many useful purposes, it makes a convenient rallying-point, but there is in it no club feeling or life." For some fifty years it was the freshman dining hall. Its interior was mostly demolished when it was converted into the Barker Center for Humanities in the 1990s. The Union was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts References External links Boston; a Guide Book By Edwin M. Bacon (Ginn & Company, 1903)
Henry F. Barker House

The Henry F. Barker House is a historic house at 103 Greenleaf Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in 1871 for Henry F. Barker, owner of some of Quincy's largest granite quarries. It is one of the best-preserved Italianate houses on Greenleaf Street, which is lined with fashionable 19th-century houses. The L-shaped house has paired brackets and dentil moulding in the eaves, projecting polygonal window bays with similar features, and a decorated porch in the crook of the L. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Henry F. Barker Henry Francis Barker was a state legislator in Massachusetts. He was born and raised in New England. He was part of the "First Norfolk District". His home at 103 Greenleaf Street in Quincy, Massachusetts is extant. He represented the First Norfolk District. He died in 1878. See also 1877 Massachusetts legislature 1878 Massachusetts legislature National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts References
Highland Hose House

The Highland Hose House is a historic fire station at 1007 Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, Massachusetts. The two story brick building was built in 1928 to a design by George Ernest Robinson. His Georgian Revival design emulates features found in Boston townhouses of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and its cupola and grasshopper weathervane resemble that of Faneuil Hall. The station includes a bronze relief of former Chief Charles Goff, executed by noted Arlington resident Cyrus Dallin. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Arlington, Massachusetts References
Reading Public Library (Massachusetts)

The Reading Public Library is located in Reading, Massachusetts. Previously known as the Highland School, the two-story brick-and-concrete Renaissance Revival building was designed by architect Horace G. Wadlin and built in 1896–97. The building served the town's public school needs until 1981. It is the town's most architecturally distinguished school building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, the year it was converted for use as the library. Description and history The Highland School building is set on the south side of Middlesex Avenue in the Reading Highlands area of Reading, west of the town's central business district. It is a two-story brick building with concrete and granite trim elements, a hip roof, and a high brick foundation separated from the body by a band of egg-and-dart molding. The body of the building is in pale yellow brick, while the foundation bricks are a darker reddish color. The front facade has projecting sections at each corner, and a center section that projects a shorter distance, but is fronted by a hip-roofed porte-cochere, supported by paired Ionic columns set brick piers connected by a wooden balustrade. The porte-cochere shelters the main entrance, which is recessed under a round-arch opening and accessed by stairs. The second level of the center projection has a bank of five round-arch windows. The Reading Highlands area was platted for residential development in the 1870s, and this school was built in 1896-97 to provide educational facilities to that area. The building was designed by the prominent local architect Horace G. Wadlin. The school was at first used for grades 4-8, and the junior high school occupied the first floor between 1915 and 1927. The school was closed in 1981, and in 1984 it was converted for use as the town's public library. An expansion and rehabilitation was completed in 2016. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Reading, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts References External links Reading Public Library web site
Hodgkins School

The Hodgkins School was a former elementary school in East Brookfield, Massachusetts, United States. At the time of its closing in 2002, it was the oldest continuously operating public school building in the state. History The school was named after David Hodgkins, a former United States army surgeon who later served as the town's doctor and on the school committee of the town. At the time, it cost $6297.53 to construct. The school housed students in first through ninth grades with those in Grades 1 through 6 in Hodgkins Elementary School and Grades 7 through 9 called Lashaway Junior High. Both "schools" were housed in the same building. Depending on enrollment, two grades were at times combined in the same room sharing a teacher. The school served the community as the sole school in town until 1957 when the nearby Memorial School was erected adjacent to the site. The school continued to be used as a junior high from the mid-1950s to 2002, when both the Memorial School and the Hodgkins School were closed and the students and staff were moved into the brand new East Brookfield Elementary School. Currently, the building is owned by the Town of East Brookfield and is home to the Historical Museum, the Massasoit Art Guild, the Quaboag Valley Railroaders, and Scouts BSA Troop 238. References
Holbrook Square Historic District

The Holbrook Square Historic District encompasses the historic institutional center of Holbrook, Massachusetts. It includes three buildings: the Gothic Revival town hall, built 1878-79, the Stick style Winthrop Congregational Church (1878–80), and the 1881 Central Fire Station. These three buildings are arrayed along Mary Wales Holbrook Park, aka Holbrook Square. The square is located north and west of the junction of North Franklin Street (Massachusetts Route 37) and Union Street (Massachusetts Route 139). The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. Description and history The town of Holbrook was originally part of Randolph, and began to achieve a separate identity with the formation of the Second Randolph Church (or East Parish) in 1818. A schism within the East Parish led to the formation of the Winthrop Congregational Church, whose first sanctuary was built in 1857-58. The town was incorporated in 1872, at which time its first town hall was built adjacent to the church. Both buildings were destroyed in a fire in December 1877. In its aftermath, a new town hall, church, and fire station were built in the town's central square. The town hall is the community's only significant example of High Victorian Gothic architecture. It is a substantial two story brick structure, with granite and sandstone trim elements. It was designed by John Lyman Faxon and built in 1878 and 1879 by the Norcross Brothers construction firm. The Winthrop Congregational Church was designed by the Boston firm of Hartwell and Tilden, and was built, also by the Norcross Brothers, from 1878 to 1880. It is the town's best preserved 19th-century church and an example of Stick style architecture The fire station, built in 1881, is the town's only example of Panel Brick architecture. It is a two-story brick building, with a hip roof, and two equipment bays. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Norfolk County, Massachusetts References
Holt-Cummings-Davis House

The Holt-Cummings-Davis House is a historic house located in Andover, Massachusetts. It is estimated to have been built around 1700 at a location across the street, and nothing is known of its owners at the time. The first recorded owner was William Hawley, who bought it in 1803. It was purchased in 1835 by Job Abbott as a wedding present for his daughter Lucy, who married Joseph Holt. Under their ownership it was moved to its present location, and a new house was built on the old site. This house was next owned by Daniel Cummings, who married into the Holt family. In 1895 the property was bought by Augustus Davis, whose family owned it until 1935. The house itself is an unusual 1+1⁄2-story First Period house, six irregularly spaced bays wide, with a slightly off-center chimney. The house has been restored, and a large modern addition has been added to its west end. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Andover, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts References
Holyoke Heritage State Park

Holyoke Heritage State Park is history-oriented state park located in the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The park opened in 1986 on the site of the William Skinner Silk Mill which was lost to fire in 1980. The park is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Activities and amenities A visitors center has exhibits about paper manufacturing and Holyoke's industrial and cultural past. The landscaped grounds offer picnicking and views of the city's canals and mill buildings. The Holyoke Merry-Go-Round (PTC #80), the Children's Museum at Holyoke, and the Volleyball Hall of Fame are also located in the park. The park also features its own rail line, a remnant of the former Holyoke & Westfield Railroad, and one of four tourist railroads in the Commonwealth. From 1988 to 1996 the railroad featured regular scenic tours to points outside of the city, however in 2005 the three Pullman cars were sold to the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum, which continues to operate them with the state park's livery. Today the Pioneer Valley Railroad provides annual fall foliage passenger rides from the Holyoke Heritage State Park to Westfield, as well as an annual Santa Train. See also Holyoke Testing Flume References External links Holyoke Heritage State Park Department of Conservation and Recreation Holyoke Heritage State Park Map Department of Conservation and Recreation
Hopewell School (Taunton, Massachusetts)

The Hopewell School is a historic school building located on Monroe Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. It was built in 1914, and designed by the Boston firm of Kilham & Hopkins in the Renaissance Revival style. The school replaced a previous school of the same name located around the corner on Bay Street in the Whittenton section of the city. The school is a three-story brick building, with terra cotta and stone trim elements. It has projecting end bays, with its entrance in a central section that projects only slightly. The entrance is trimmed in terra cotta, while windows have limestone trim, with those on the second floor sporting keystone lintels. The building is capped by a limestone cornice, above which stands a brick parapet. Some of its windows have been filled in with brick. The building was constructed utilizing the most up-to-date fireproof construction methods and materials known at the time, by the Boston engineering firm of Richardson & Hale. The bricks were locally sourced from Taunton brick yards. The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, for its architectural significance as a fine example of Renaissance Revival architecture, and for its role in the development of the city's public education systems, reflecting changing trends in educational architecture. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Taunton, Massachusetts References
Hopkinton Supply Co. Building

The Hopkinton Supply Co. Building is a historic commercial building at 26-28 Main Street in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. The single-story pressed metal building was built in 1906, and is a locally unusual example of a mail-order commercial storefront. The storefront was manufactured by the George L. Mesker Company of Evansville, Indiana. It was first occupied by William Morse's Hopkinton Supply Company, and housed a branch of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company from 1928 to 1954. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts References