Tag: FDR at Harvard

  • George Washington Lewis

    I’ve been doing a bit of research on the Porcellian Club, in advance of the architectural walking tour I’m leading this November for the Harvard Alumni Association entitled Presidential Pathways:…

  • FDR and Harvard’s First Great Social Experiment: The Union

    “To whom the conception of a Harvard Union is due is beyond my knowledge; but we owe the fostering of the idea to many men, and we owe the grounds…

  • FDR’s Harvard Through The Brush of Edward Penfield

    Many of you may not be aware (as I was not, despite 3 years residence) that Adams House possesses a tremendous artistic treasure built into its walls, one that gives…

  • The Music of FDR’s Harvard

    For those of you interested in learning more about what music was like in the early years of the past century, this fascinating excerpt from the 1910 Encyclopedia of American…

  • Welcome to our FDR Project Email Subscribers!

    This is just a short post to introduce our email subscribers to the new FDR Suite Restoration Project blog. Rather than sending out email notices every so often, we thought…

  • Bestsellers of 1903

    In our continuing search to furnish the Suite, we’re looking for period books, among them the bestsellers of 1903. If you have copies of these books in good condition that…