Pforzheimer House
| Pforzheimer House | |
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| Residential House at Harvard University | |
View of Pforzheimer House's Moors Hall.
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| University | Harvard University |
| Location | 6 Linnaean Street |
| Coordinates | 42°22′55″N 71°07′29″W / 42.38195°N 71.12467°WCoordinates: 42°22′55″N 71°07′29″W / 42.38195°N 71.12467°W |
| Motto | (sometimes stylized as "pFortes pFortuna Adiuvat") |
| Established | 1996 |
| Named for | Carol K and Carl H Pforzheimer Jr |
| Previous names | North House, Radcliffe Quadrangle |
| Colours | Red, Black, White |
| Faculty Deans | John Durant Anne Harrington |
| Undergraduates | approx. 400 |
| Called | Pfohosers (also: Pfohomies) |
| Website | www |
Pforzheimer House, nicknamed PfoHo (FOE-hoe) (and formerly named North House or NoHo), is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. It was named in 1995 for Carol K. and Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr, major University and Radcliffe College benefactors, and their family.
Located in the Radcliffe Quadrangle, PfoHo comprises Ada Louise Comstock, Daniel Henry Holmes, Mary Buckminster Moors, and Wolbach Halls, in addition to Faculty Row and the Jordan North and South buildings.
PfoHo's shield features black and crimson squares on a crimson and black field; its mascots are the polar bear and the Pf bigram. The current Faculty Deans are Anne Harrington and her husband, John Durant.
Radcliffe College students first took up residence on campus in 1901, and the oldest parts of PfoHo date to that year.
Moors opened in time for the 1949-1950 academic year, the year plans for Holmes were first drawn up. Construction of Comstock began in 1957.
The Jordans, two separate buildings located at the corner of Walker and Shepard Streets, began as an experiment in cooperative living in 1961. They gradually became used as overflow housing in 1985, although one building persisted as a co-op until at least until 1997.
Wolbach, formerly an apartment building, was purchased by Radcliffe in 1964.
The name "North House" first appeared in 1961 and consisted of Comstock, Moors, and Holmes. Wolbach did not yet belong to Radcliffe at this point. The Jordans were initially assigned to the no-longer-extant East House.
In the fall of 1970 Professor Edward L. Keenan and his wife Joan became the first masters of North house. They moved into the newly constructed masters residence at 46 Linnaean Street. The townhouses of Faculty Row along Linnaean were also completed in 1970 and were affiliated with the House.
Male students were first assigned to North House in the fall of 1970, when Harvard and Radcliffe entered an agreement allowing students from the respective colleges to live in dormitories at the other institution.
House Master and Co-Master Woody and Hanna Hastings began their term in 1975.
They attempted to cultivate house spirit by integrating and interconnecting the buildings. Woody Hastings remarked, "Any student in North House ought to be able to get from any place in the House to any other place in the House in his PJs - or less."
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