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Harvard Indian College, Building Plan

Sketch of Harvard Indian College Building blueprint depicting the exterior side and interior floorplan.
Full Title:

The Indian College, Conjectural Restoration, H. R. Shurtleff, in Samuel E. Morison, 1936, Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century

Annotation:

Annotation from The Harvard Indian College-“History” Webpage:

The ca. 1655 Indian College was Harvard’s first brick building, and its second building built for educational purposes. It stood west of Harvard’s Old College, approximately where Matthews Hall now stands.

Source Citation:

Shurtleff, H.R. 1936. “The Indian College, Conjectural Restoration.” Building Plan. In Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century, Part I, by Samuel E. Morison. 1936. Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/494

Cite this page:

Shurtleff, H.R.. 1936. "Harvard Indian College, Building Plan." History of Higher Education. https://higheredhistory.gmu.edu/primary-sources/building-plan-of-harvard-indian-college/