1320-24 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts. County/parish: Middlesex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 30, 1983. NRIS 83000824.
Part of Cambridge MRA (NRIS 64000275).
1 contributing building.
The Porcellian Club is an all-male final club at Harvard University, colloquially known as the Porc or the P.C. Its founding is traditionally dated to either 1791, when a group began meeting under the name "the Argonauts," or 1794, the year of a roast pig dinner that formally established the club under its initial name, the "Pig Club." The club's Epicurean motto, Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we live, let us live"), and its emblem—a pig—reflect its origins. Members often wear golden pig motifs on watch chains or neckties adorned with pig-head symbols.
Regarded as Harvard’s "oldest and most prestigious" social club, the Porcellian has been described as the iconic "hotsy-totsy final club" and is frequently cited by the university as "the most final of them all."
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790434