2026/07/11

Lampoon Castle

Brick building with a round front, designed with windows and doors places to resemble a human face

I took a quick-pic of this interesting-looking building in Cambridge, Massachusetts in June 2007 - knowing only that it looked really cute, and made me think of Little Toot the tug-boat.

Thanks to the magic of Google image search, I now know that:
  • It's the Harvard Lampoon Building, fondly known as the "Lampoon Castle" and headquarters of a Harvard University under-grad humour magazine.
  • It was designed by architect and Lampoon co-founder Edmund M. Wheelwright in 1909, as a mock mock Flemish castle fronted by a human head wearing a helmet or bowler hat, it is an example of the building function driving form. 

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