Hollis Hall or Stoughton Hall, ca. 1801

Detailed floor plan of either Hollis Hall or Stoughton Hall, as indicated on drawing. Includes dimensions for student chambers, hallways, and stairs.

Stoughton Hall..N.W. [Northwest] View, 1827

Pen and ink drawing of a northwest view of Stoughton Hall, watermarked 1827

Stoughton Hall..S.E. [Southeast] View, 1827

Pen and ink drawing of a southeast view of Stoughton Hall, watermarked 1827

First Floor, Stoughton, 1874

Floor plan of renovations for the first floor of Stoughton Hall, as drawn by William Rotch Ware in 1874. Includes dimensions for student chambers, hallways, and coal furnaces.

Second Floor, Stoughton, 1874

Floor plan of renovations for the second floor of Stoughton Hall, as drawn by William Rotch Ware in 1874. Includes dimensions for student chambers, proctor's rooms, hallways, and coal furnaces.

Third Floor, Fourth Floor, Stoughton, 1874

Floor plan of renovations for the third and fourth floors of Stoughton Hall, as drawn by William Rotch Ware in 1874. Includes dimensions for student chambers, H.P. Club Rooms, hallways, and coal furnaces.

Letter from John Leverett to the Governor of Massachusetts, 27 June 1710

This letter summarizes the activities of the Committee to View Stoughton House including the Committee's recent visit to the dormitory. The letter is signed by "Leverett in the name of the Committee."

Financial memoranda from John Leverett to John White, 29 August 1715

Harvard president John Leverett informs treasurer John White that the Harvard Corporation has voted to allocate funds for repairs to Stoughton College. Also includes a separate receipt for nails purchased in Boston for repairs in Stoughton College dated the same day.

Receipt from Isaac Bradish to Caleb Gannett, 18 October 1781

Receipt for $280 for all materials, except stones, to build Stoughton Hall, to Caleb Gannett, College Steward on behalf of the Corporation, from auctioneer Isaac Bradish. The receipt also gives the purchase price in British pounds sterling, £84.

Letter from Caleb Gannett to Eliphalet Pearson, 6 December 1804

College steward Caleb Gannett wrote this letter to interim Harvard president Eliphalet Pearson outlining supply and labor needs for an on-time completion of the new college, Stoughton Hall, in Spring 1805. Supplies include lumber for staircases, corners, and doors; lime and hair for masonry; window weights, oil, paint, nails, hinges, and locks. Gannett also requests the services of a workman to complete a coating for the roof.

Floor plan and notes for proposed building with chapel and hall, [ca. 1799]

Possibly drawn and written in the hand of President Joseph Willard. The proposed building would house a chapel, halls, chambers for scholars, and was to be built on the site of the first Stoughton Hall which was torn down in 1781.

Plan of College buildings and lot from Mr. Bulfinch, [ca. 1814]

Known as the Bulfinch view, this proposed site plan of the College grounds by Charles Bulfinch depicts University Hall at the center of the drawing surrounded by Massachusetts, Harvard, Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy Halls. Several unlabeled buildings are displayed in the plan.

Annotated almanac, 1754

Almanac containing calendar pages with sporadic annotations of measurements and small one-word notes. There are a few handwritten entries including a note of the Boston and Charlestown's burials and baptisms and the number of whites to blacks in Boston, a list of towns where Winthrop lodged on a trip to Philadelphia (April-May), and structural measurements relating to an inclination of Old Stoughton College (September 20).

Annotated almanac, 1756

Almanac containing two laid-in leaves and calendar pages with sporadic annotations of measurements, on the May page an annotation listing towns where Winthrop lodged. The first laid-in leaf has a short entry with structural measurements relating to an inclination of Old Stoughton College (January 21), and the second laid-in leaf has entries including notes on deaths in the community, the weather, an outbreak of dysentery (September 4), and the raising of a new Cambridge meeting house (November 12-17).

Annotated almanac, 1760

Almanac with one laid-in leaf. The calendar pages containing minimal annotations and three entries recording a distance measurement by John Winthrop (January 23), and unclear note about "Stoughton land" by Hannah Winthrop (January 31), and a note "Our long Jack weight is 53lb, & the round one 42 1/4" by John Winthrop (January). The laid-in leaf contains entries listing deaths in the community written by both Winthrops, the heights of Winthrop's son Jemmy and Scipio noted by John Winthrop, a note of food purchased "since the 14th of October" by Hannah Winthrop, and the bill of mortality for the first parish in Cambridge by John Winthrop.