Word: brickly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Ideas are intangible and unstable things. They cannot hold the attention of the hurrying multitudes of the city for a great length of time, seldom for as long as they deserve. But a solution lies in translating them into concrete--or brick--realities. This is the means which the Harvard Club of Boston has taken to establish the idea that Boston and Cambridge are united by the strong, though invisible, ties of Harvard. As long as Harvard is in Cambridge, so long will Boston be a centre of interest for Harvard men, graduates and undergraduates. It is, therefore...
...building is situated in back of Lawrence Hall, between if and the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. Harvard brick and marble are the construction materials, and tile is to be used for the floors of the foyer. There are to be two entrances and porches, one on the west and the other on the north side of the building; the west porch will be of semi-circular construction, while that to the north is rectangular and upheld by pillars. On the first floor there will be, besides the vestibule, coat room and secretary's room, a large foyer from which a broad...
...bridge itself is of reinforced concrete, the trimmings being of granite and brick to correspond to the structure of the wall about Soldiers Field. As the elevated station is also of this character, the whole effect is one of symmetry and beauty. This bridge is said to be the only one in the country where an inlay of bricks is employed solely for decorative purposes...
They provided for a building in brick and marble on the site of Gore Hall 275 feet long and 206 feet wide, the longest dimension to run north and south. The entrance and facade was to face on the Sever quadrangle, but the facade on the Massachusetts avenue side which was to be about on a line with Boylston Hall was also to be handsome and diguified...
...clubhouse, which is situated on Commonwealth avenue just west of Massachusetts avenue, has a 100-foot frontage and extends back towards Newbury street 150 feet. The building is designed after the style of the Georgian period with a facade of brick and limestone and the sides and back of brick...