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...been widely reported that developer John Briston Sullivan is against designation of the Common as a historic district because he still hopes to construct an office building on stilts near the Square. Any such building might not be allowed in a historic district...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: Council Rebuffs Historic Districts | 12/12/1962 | See Source »

Astronaut Scott Carpenter held the College spell-bound for the better part of an hour early in examination period: about the same time John Briston Sullivan, a local speculator-promoter-businessman, produced a different kind of uneasiness by threatening to sink a large, ugly, barge in the middle of the Charles River Basin The move would have been part of Sullivan's grand strategy against a group of Boston businessmen in the struggle for riverfront land control; as Cambridge yachtsmen watched aghast, Sullivan turned to other, less dramatic tactics and decided not to sink the barge after all. Sullivan...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: The School Year at Harvard: Concern For National Affairs | 7/2/1962 | See Source »

...John Briston Sullivan, a Cambridge real estate developer, has removed his 131-foot long barge from the Charles River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan Takes Barge From River, Notes Party Request From Harvard | 4/24/1962 | See Source »

...John Briston Sullivan, the Cambridge real estate developer who threatened the University last year with his building-on-stilts proposal, is planning to sink a tremendous, ugly barge in the Charles River just below M.I.T...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: Sullivan May Block Charles River By Submerging Large, Ugly Barge | 4/17/1962 | See Source »

...University does oppose the creation of a historic district, however, many people in Cambridge will charge Harvard with opportunism because of its role in the John Briston Sullivan affair last spring...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: Historic District Plan May Stop School of Education | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

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