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Eliot House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. It is one of the seven original houses at the college. Opened in 1931, the house was named after Charles William Eliot, who served as president of the university for forty years (1869–1909).
Eliot House is one of the 12 upperclassmen houses at Harvard, named after Charles Eliot, who served as president of the university for forty years and was responsible for some pretty great changes — like the introduction of the elective system and the construction of the Harvard Stadium, the Phillips Brooks House, and Johnston Gate.
Sep 22, 2011 · Named in honor of Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909, Eliot House was opened in 1931. It was one of the original seven Houses at the College following the plan by Eliot’s successor, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, to “revitalize education and revive egalitarianism at Harvard College.”.
Oct 29, 2018 · The discovery of the Comstock Lode spawned a boomtown that became Virginia City. By the mid- 1870’s Virginia City’s population had experienced six booms and busts; its population ebbed and flowed with each cycle from 5,000 to 25,000 people. By the mid 1870’s almost $370 million of silver ore had been extracted from the Comstock Lode.
Jun 5, 2018 · The Virginia City Historic District, located halfway between Reno and Carson City, Nevada, includes the 19th century mining towns of Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City, and Dayton, as well as open lands containing cultural sites associated with mining activities.
The 19th-century mining bonanza that turned Virginia City into the most important industrial city between Denver and San Francisco, was the result of the Comstock Lode. A rich deposit of silver ore discovered by Henry Comstock, part-owner of the property on which it was discovered, in June 1859.
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Eliot House was one of the Harvard's original seven River Houses, undergraduate dormitories modeled on the English residential colleges at Oxford and Cambridge. Eliot House sits on the site formerly occupied by the Boston Elevated power house.
