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Harvard Forest Campus Buildings Information

This file is part of the Administrative Materials collection. Access may be restricted due to privacy concerns. For questions about access, please contact hflib@fas.harvard.edu.

• HF-ID: HFAdm-047
• Category: Administrative Materials
• Creator: Various
• Date: 1946 to 2017
• Location: Harvard Forest
• Media: Paper and photographs
• Contents:
  • 1 accordion file, 19 file folders.

• Keywords: art, cabot foundation, facilities, harvard forest houses
• Abstract:
  • Campus Buildings
  • Folder 1. Headquarters furnishings and equipment inventories (1935-40).
  • Folder 2. Headquarters sign. Correspondence about sign missing and reported stolen (1987).
  • Folder 3. HF Apartments rental, renovations, notes and maintenance correspondence (1946-1993).
  • Folder 4. Shaler Cow Pasture fence plans (no date, ca. 1990s).
  • Folder 5. Fume hood plans: Plans for construction of a fume hood in the Cabot Laboratory. (Philip Morey, 1968).
  • Folder 6. Harvard Forest Garage: Correspondence, specifications for garage (1938).
  • Folder 7. Re-numbering of Buildings at Harvard Forest (2013).
  • Folder 8. Harvard Forest buildings maintenance, improvements, alterations (1976-1979).
  • Folder 9. Budget Matters: expense account (1985); insurance values and charges for buildings (1987-1988); insurance meeting follow up memo (2003); loss prevention report (2010).
  • Folder 10. Harvard Forest building occupancy calculations: Shaler Hall and Fisher Museum (2005); Raup House and Fisher House (2004).
  • Folder 11. Community House notes: Notes about the Sanderson farm house by John Wisnewski and Chris Mandel (2016).
  • Folder 12. Community House: extra copies of Adonai Shomo report by R.D. Zimmermann (HF 1984-09).
  • Folder 13. Fisher House insulation proposals (2015).
  • Folder 14. New Harvard Forest sawmill: quote for work to be done by Power Line Contractors, Inc.; Determination of Applicability (2017).
  • Folder 15. Community House Apartment B, 1st floor and second floor, set of 4 plans (ca. 2004-2005).
  • Folder 16. Septic and well plans (photocopies): Fisher Cottage (no date, ca. 1960s), Community House (1972), Enviromental Control Building [now called Torrey Laboratory] (no date, circa 1970s).
  • Art
  • Folder 17. Restoration of the 1855 Map of Petersham by the Williamstown Regional Art Conservation Lab., Inc. (1991-1992).
  • Folder 18. Harvard Forest Headquarters art: correspondence and photographs (1986-1991).
  • Folder 19. Carl Rungius moose painting: notes, correspondence, sale documents.
  • Folder 20. R.T. Fisher portrait correspondence (1941).
  • Folder 21. Fine art (1997) and cultural properties (2008) inventories; ceramic mushroom appraisal (2009); Risk profile report (2013); art inventory (2015).

• Archives Location: Map Room, stack 12, drawer 3
• Access: Restricted
• Provenance: R.T. Fisher portrait correspondence was received from David Tatlock, February 22, 2011.
• Administrative Notes:
  • August 2015: Folder 7, water tests of wells, letters, notes and correspondence (1962-1966), was transferred to HFAdm-0138 to be included with more recent Well Water Inspections.
  • March 2026: Personnel-related documents were transferred to HFAdm-0067.
  • April 2026: Environmental Control Facility proposal, plans, notes transferred to HFAdm-0202.