Spangler Center

Spangler Center
General information
Town or city	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Country	United States
Completed	2001
Owner	Harvard Business School
Design and construction
Architect	Robert A.M. Stern Architects

The Spangler Center is a building at the Harvard Business School on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S..

The building was named in honor of billionaire alumnus Clemmie Spangler, who made a donation to towards the construction. It cost $32 million in total. Its construction was completed in 2001.

According to the HBS website, the building "is considered the main student center for MBAs." It includes "29 project rooms", "a 350-seat auditorium", "IT Support Services, a branch of The Coop bookstore, a business center, a post office retail outlet, Student Association offices, a course material distribution center, and an ATM" as well as the Meredith Room, named for Spangler's wife, and the Williams Room, named for HBS professor Charles M. Williams.

The building was designed in the Georgian Revival architectural style by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. In Architect Magazine, Witold Rybczynski wrote that it "resembles a large country house." In The Boston Globe, critic Robert Campbell called it "the best piece of traditional architecture to be built in Greater Boston since the early decades of the twentieth century."

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