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Johnston Gate is one of several entrances to Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The gate, which was completed in 1889 in a Georgian Revival design by McKim, Mead & White, opens onto Peabody Street just north of Harvard Square. Its cost of approximately $10,000 was the gift of Samuel Johnston, an 1855 Harvard College graduate.
Each Harvard Commencement Day for several hundred years, the sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk Counties have arrived at Harvard Yard on horsebac for the Middlesex Sheriff's ritual calling of the celebrants to order. It has become traditional for them to enter via the Johnston Gate.[1][2]