Word: bullfinch
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...Faculty Room, originally designed as a chapel by architect William Bullfinch, now hosts full Faculty meetings...
...popular belief, the one-inch holes that pattern the concrete walls of Mather House were not designed to allow Dunster House to breathe when it was shipped to Harvard using Mather as a box. Mather House was designed by the oldest architectural firm in Boston—Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson and Abbot—which also built Sever Hall along with Boston landmarks such as South Station and the Boston Public Library. So why this sudden (not to mention short-lived) desire to leave unfinished concrete pockmarked by identical one-inch holes? Concrete was the building material because...