# Gore Hall

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**Gore Hall** was a historic building on the [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) campus in [Cambridge, Massachusetts](/source/Cambridge,_Massachusetts), designed by [Richard Bond](/source/Richard_Bond_(architect)). Gore Hall was Harvard's first dedicated library building, a [Gothic Revival](/source/Gothic_Revival_architecture) structure built in 1838 of [Quincy](/source/Quincy,_Massachusetts) granite and named in honor of Harvard graduate and [Massachusetts Governor](/source/Governor_of_Massachusetts) [Christopher Gore](/source/Christopher_Gore).

In 1846, Harvard President [Edward Everett](/source/Edward_Everett) was asked to design a seal for the newly incorporated City of Cambridge, and he identified Gore and [Washington Elm](/source/Washington_Elm) as two icons encircled by the motto *Literis Antiquis Novis Institutis Decora*. "It can be translated as: 'Distinguished for Classical Learning and New Institutions.'"[1]

When the original Gore Hall was demolished in 1913 to make way for [Widener Library](/source/Widener_Library),[2] its name was transferred to a new Gore Hall, a freshman dormitory then under construction and now part of [Winthrop House](/source/Winthrop_House).[3]

## References

1. Cambridge Historical Commission. ["About the CHC. Frequently Asked Questions"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140516042446/http://www2.cambridgema.gov/Historic/faq.html). City of Cambridge. Archived from [the original](http://www2.cambridgema.gov/historic/faq.html) on May 16, 2014. Retrieved July 26, 2014.

1. Spencer, Thaxter (November–December 2011). ["Christopher Gore"](http://harvardmagazine.com/2001/11/christopher-gore.html). *Harvard Magazine*

1. Harvard University (1949). [*Education, bricks and mortar: Harvard buildings and their contribution to the advancement of learning*](https://books.google.com/books?id=aupNAAAAMAAJ). Harvard University. p. 29. ISBN 9780674238855.

- Harvard University. Library (1905). [*An Index Guide to the Shelf Classification of the Harvard College Library ...*](https://books.google.com/books?id=IA5wAAAAIAAJ). library. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- [https://archive.today/20150224033933/http://portal-gss.lib.harvard.edu/01092015-1907/history-harvards-library-one-spine-time](https://archive.today/20150224033933/http://portal-gss.lib.harvard.edu/01092015-1907/history-harvards-library-one-spine-time)
- Cutter, C.A. (1869). [*The New Catalogue of Harvard College Library*](https://archive.org/details/jstor-25109431). The North American Review. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- Kent, A. (1983). [*Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science*](https://books.google.com/books?id=vEFpm4fCj6cC&pg=PA328). Taylor & Francis. p. 328. ISBN 9780824720353. Retrieved November 15, 2015.

## External links

- ["Round Point Pinnacle at Appleton Farms"](http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM6FBY). 25 May 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2017. Text gives locations of three other pinnacles salvaged from Gore Hall.

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