The homes inside the temple, and one ghost sign

Today the building holds fourteen homes inside the temple’s bones: pink Tennessee marble at the entrance, steel columns set in thick masonry walls, foot-thick concrete floors, and documented life on one corner since 1930. The 1985 declaration counts fourteen units, and the county appraisal roll numbers them 1 through 12, 14, and 15; there is no unit 13. The association the declaration created is Harvard House Condominium Association, Inc.; the listing portals say Harvard House, and the sign on the building says Harvard Place.

Above the Harvard Street entrance, a carved square-and-compass panel is still faintly legible in the right light: the building’s first life, keeping quiet watch over all the others. This site exists to give every one of those lives its record.