Papers of Kenneth J. Conant, 1907-1975 (inclusive).

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Papers of Kenneth J. Conant, 1907-1975 (inclusive).

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Includes correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues, as well as publishers, universities, art museums, and professional societies. Some correspondence concerns Cluny in France. Also correspondence, plans, photographs, and clippings pertaining to Harvard Hall renovation; lecture notes for fine arts courses; class outlines of architecture in Europe; lectures delivered at other universities; and 1971 photographs of murals at Elmwood painted by Conant.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Conant, Kenneth John, 1894-1984

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Kenneth John Conant (June 28, 1894 – March 3, 1984) was an American architectural historian and educator, who specialized in medieval architecture. Born in Neenah, Conant received a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1915. He was considered the academic heir of Herbert Langford Warren, a teacher at Harvard, and through him, of the art historians Charles Eliot Norton and John Ruskin. He served in the 42nd Infantry Division of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I a...

Cluny (Benedictine abbey)

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Harvard University. Dept. of Fine Arts

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Harvard Hall (Cambridge, Mass.)

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