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- Gore_Hall_(Harvard_College_library) abstract "Gore Hall was a historic building on the Harvard University campus, designed by Richard Bond. Harvard's first dedicated library building, a Gothic structure built in 1838 of Quincy granite, it was named in honor of Harvard graduate and Massachusetts Governor Christopher Gore. It was demolished in 1913 to make way for Widener Library.When, in 1846, Harvard President Edward Everett was asked to design a seal for the newly incorporated City of Cambridge, he made Gore one of two icons (the other being the Washington Elm) encircled by the motto Literis Antiquis Novis Institutis Decora. \"It can be translated as: 'Distinguished for Classical Learning and New Institutions.'\"".