Baker Library/Bloomberg Center
{{Short description|Library at Harvard Business School}}
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| location = Harvard Business School
| address = 25 Harvard Way
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| architect = McKim, Mead & White
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| ren_architect = Robert A. M. Stern Architeects
| renovation_date = 2005
| ren_cost = $53.4 million
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William Henry Bloomberg
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The Baker Library/Bloomberg Center is a building complex at Harvard Business School on the campus of Harvard University in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It includes the Baker Library, built in 1927, and the Bloomberg Center, completed in 2005.
Overview
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The construction of the Baker Library was completed in 1927.{{cite web|title=Baker Library/Bloomberg Center|url=http://www.hbs.edu/about/campus-and-culture/campus-built-on-philanthropy/Pages/baker-library-bloomberg-center.aspx|website=Harvard Business School|access-date=October 13, 2017}} It was named for philanthropist George Fisher Baker. From 1930 to 2007, the bell in the tower came from the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, Russia; it had been donated by Charles Richard Crane.
The Bloomberg Center was built in 2003–2005. It was named for billionaire alumnus Michael R. Bloomberg's father, William Henry Bloomberg.
The complex includes 67 faculty offices, the de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room, named for alumnus Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien,{{cite web|title=The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room|url=http://www.hbs.edu/about/campus-and-culture/campus-built-on-philanthropy/indoor-spaces/Pages/de-gaspe-beubien-reading-room.aspx|website=Harvard Business School|access-date=October 13, 2017}} the Stamps Reading Room and the Frist Faculty Commons, named for philanthropist Thomas F. Frist Jr.{{cite web|title=Frist Faculty Commons|url=http://www.hbs.edu/about/campus-and-culture/campus-built-on-philanthropy/indoor-spaces/Pages/frist-faculty-commons.aspx|website=Harvard Business School|access-date=October 13, 2017}}
Architectural design
The 1927 building was designed in the Georgian Revival style by McKim, Mead & White.{{cite news|last1=Rybczynski|first1=Witold|title=Witold Rybczynski: Tata Hall and the Art of Adding to the Harvard Business School Campus|url=http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/buildings/witold-rybczynski-tata-hall-and-the-art-of-adding-to-the-harvard-business-school-campus_o|access-date=October 13, 2017|work=Architect Magazine|date=October 14, 2014}} The 2005 expansion was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and cost $53.4 million.{{cite web|title=ABOUT THE LIBRARY|url=https://www.library.hbs.edu/Plan-Your-Visit#about|website=Baker Library/Bloomberg Center|publisher=Harvard Business School|access-date=October 13, 2017}}{{Cite journal |date=November–December 2005 |title=Baker Library, Renewed |url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2005/11/baker-library-renewed.html |journal=Harvard Magazine}}
Library collections
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The library collections contain many rare books and documents of business history.{{cite journal|last1=Linard|first1=Laura|last2=Sverdloff|first2=Brent M.|title=Not Just Business as Usual: Evolving Trends in Historical Research at Baker Library|journal=The American Archivist|date=Winter 1997|volume=60|issue=1|pages=88–98|jstor=40294027}}{{cite journal|last1=Bartoshesky|first1=Florence|title=Business Records at the Harvard Business School|journal=The Business History Review|date=Autumn 1985|volume=59|issue=3|pages=475–483|jstor=3114008}}{{cite journal|last1=Lovett|first1=Robert W.|title=Business Manuscripts in Baker Library|journal=Bulletin of the Business Historical Society|date=December 1953|volume=27|issue=4|pages=260–263|doi=10.2307/3110899}}
See also
References
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