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“Certainly, that’s the earliest it could happen,” he added. “We really don’t want to touch a brick on Lowell House until the new bells are here.”
The manager, Peter Riley of Harvard Real Estate Services, said the University is currently soliciting proposals from Russian foundries to replicate the bells for Harvard. Riley and Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck were part of a Harvard delegation that took a whirlwind tour of Russian foundries and belfries in...
After nearly 80 years in the Lowell House belltower, Harvard’s historic Russian bells may be heading home to a centuries-old monastery in Moscow as early as next summer.
Harvard’s project manager for the bells said last week that a foundation backed by a Russian metals mogul has agreed to pay roughly $1 million to transport the 25 tons of sacred bronze back to Moscow and buy replacements for Lowell, possibly ending a decades-long ordeal...
In an e-mail to The Crimson, Eck cautioned that the Lowell bells were not “in the mail” and that casting a new set would take “many months.”