page_title: Memorial Hall (Harvard University)
section_title: Memorial Transept
hierarchical_section_title: Memorial Hall (Harvard University) / Architecture and facilities / Memorial Transept
caption_attribution_description: English: Sanders theater (Harvard)
context_page_description: Memorial Hall, immediately north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an imposing High Victorian Gothic building honoring Harvard men's sacrifices in defense of the Union during the American Civil War‍—‌"a symbol of Boston's commitment to the Unionist cause and the abolitionist movement in America."
  Built on a former playing field known as the Delta, it was described by Henry James as consisting of
  three main divisions: one of them a theater, for academic ceremonies; another a vast refectory, covered with a timbered roof, hung about with portraits and lighted by stained windows, like the halls of the colleges of Oxford; and the third, the most interesting, a chamber high, dim and severe, consecrated to the sons of the university who fell in the long Civil War.
  James's "three divisions" are known today as Sanders Theatre; Annenberg Hall; and Memorial Transept. Beneath Annenberg Hall, Loker Commons offers a number of student facilities.
context_section_description: The Memorial Transept [2,600 square feet (240 m²)] consists of a 60-foot-high (18 m) gothic vault above a marble floor, with black walnut paneling and stenciled walls, a large stained glass window over each of two exterior doors, and‍—‌commemorating the 136 Harvard men who died fighting for the Union‍—‌twenty-eight white tablets,
  tablets to one after another of the many who thus died‍—‌a thrilling list. One sees such old New England names as Peabody, Wadsworth, and Bowditch; one sees the name of Fletcher Webster; one sees that an Edward Revere died at Antietam and a Paul Revere at Gettysburg.
  Confederate deaths are not represented.
  Memorial Transept serves as a vestibule for Sanders Theatre.
caption: Memorial Transept seen from the north door
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