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...Culinary began life in 1946 as a storefront training school for World War II vets called the New Haven Restaurant Institute, with an enrollment of 16 and a staff of three. In 1972 it moved from Connecticut to its present home: a hulking, red brick former Jesuit seminary, St. Andrew's-on-the-Hudson. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the great theologian, is buried there. Stained- glass windows depicting scenes from the life of Christ adorn a student dining hall that was once the seminary's chapel. It also contains a fresco of the Last Supper, boarded up for safekeeping...
...Bean models and carry lacrosse sticks across carefully manicured lawns. Located in Wallingford, Conn., 12 miles north of New Haven, it is the button-down boarding school boasting such notable alumni as John F. Kennedy and Glenn Close -- a place of birch and magnolia trees and Colonial Revival brick buildings with white trim, intimate dormers and gilded towers...
...then there's the rule that Harry's mom inserted in the Harvard contract: that if a single brick is removed from the building, the property will be returned to the city of Cambridge. What if there's a little accident during the transfer of books? No doubt Cambridge would be happy to accept the vacated building. But there is an even more threatening prospect: Once the contract is broken, would Mrs. Widener's provision for our daily ice cream be forgotten...
Like the Inn, the DeWolfe St. project is designed to fit in with its neighboring river houses. The building, which faces Quincy House, is similar to the river houses in scale and in surface details such as the red brick and white window frames, says John Clancy, the project's architect...
...They just seem to me to rely too much on Harvard Square architectural formulas," says Boston architect David P. Handlin '65, saying that most of the buildings sport brick facades with stone details...