What makes a House a home Harvard Gazette
Table Of Content Student Voices Harvard Housing Day Constituent halls Open Alert: Harvard Yard Closed to the Public Life Work Leverett House Sofia Giannuzzi (left) and Linh Vu ring a large bell in the Lowell House bell tower as part of a Sunday House tradition. Conner Huey (left) and Paz Meyers celebrate one of their favorite spaces, the Dunster House dining hall. Kirkland is the only River House with a twin-chimneyed gable connected by a horizontal parapet bridge. The distinguishing feature matches Massachusetts Hall, the oldest surviving building at Harvard, which houses the president and administrative offices. Student Voices Of all Harvard’s undergraduate Houses, no building brings the outdoors inside like Currier. “The tree house” is all about the landscape where alternate sloping and sunken hillsides are organic, serene, and tree-filled. In the common room called “the fishbowl” there are oversized windows that face the slopes. On a winter day this space transforms to feel...