Copper antefixes, cresting, weathervanes, trefoil dormers, crockets, pinnacles, cornice, and finials

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MEMORIAL HALL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Boston, Massachusetts
Copper antefixes, cresting, weathervanes, trefoil dormers, crockets, pinnacles, cornice, and finials

Harvard University’s Memorial Hall was built as a tribute to the Union Harvard men who died in the Civil War, and said to be one of the greatest examples of Ruskinian Gothic architecture outside of England.
In 1956, during an attempt to restore the copper work, the tower spire caught fire and was destroyed. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. A generous gift from Katherine B. Loker, launched the tower-spire restoration project in 1994 and the Tower spire was completed and a major piece of architectural history has been returned to the Harvard campus. The project received the Palladio Award for 2002 which is for quality of construction and craftsmanship and overall design excellence

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The Palladio Awards Program is designed to honor outstanding achievement in traditional design. The Program recognizes individual designers and/or design teams whose work enhances the beauty and humane qualities of the built environment through creative interpretation or adaptation of design principles developed through 2,500 years of the Western architectural tradition.

This gothic tower was replicated to the original design, after an attempt (in 1956) at restoration of the architectural sheet metal caused a fire that destroyed it.