Word: bulfinch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem of seating the Harvard football crowds, which has been pressing since the condemnation of the old wooden structure used at Soldiers Field for a score of years, has reached a solution for the present at least. The approval of the Harvard Corporation has been secured, and Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, architects, are now engaged on the plans...
Plans for the new structure are not yet far advanced as to details, except that there will be a tunnel through which the track straightaway will run. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, the University architects, will draw the plans for the new stands which will accommodate about the same number as the old wooden structure. Though no exact figures are available as to the cost of this improvement on Soldiers Field, it is understood that the sum will be in the vicinity of $175,000. When completed, the stands will be left in position permanently, or until such a time...
...contractors who are carrying on the excavating for the architects, Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, estimate that their work will be completed in four or five weeks, depending upon the weather. Another steam shovel will be put into use today, bringing the total dirt removing capacity of the three machines to 1500 or 1800 square yards of earth...
Generally praiseworthy as the productions of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott have been, nevertheless the architectural worth of some of their Harvard buildings is a controversial subject...
...section of the additions will duplicate the present structure, while in the rear of the building, extending toward Massachusetts avenue there will be a new wing. The architects are Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, of Boston, and the contract calls for the completion of the building before September...