Word: bullfinches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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STOUGHTON 17--John Bullfinch, designer of University Hall, lived here...
...close together in the congested down town district, the party goes by the subway, and in a series of short walks sees some of Boston's most interesting features. Arriving on Boston Common the party first visits the State House the front of which was designed by Charles Bullfinch, and erected in 1795. Doric Hall, Memorial Hall, the State Library, (containing the Bradford Manuscript), and the halls of the executive and legislative departments are among the most interesting features of this building. A short time is then taken to enter the Granary Burying Ground and King's Chapel Burying Ground...
Plans, which have been prepared by the firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott, provide for a five-story dormitory unit which will accommodate 40 students. There will be four single and two double suites on each floor. As a result of this extension, Kirkland House will have facilities for about 250 men, the average for the seven other units in the House Plan. These plans were considered and approved at a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, on Monday, March...
...historic Yard and the tortuous Charles, its gold tower dwarfed by the belling pinnacle of Lowell House, is Adams House, unit of the House Plan which combines the relies of the Gold Coast age with the latest products of the fertile minds of those masters, Messrs. Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch & Abbott, to form an architectural jumble, but at the same time a bizarre and altogether pleasing entirety. For though Westmorly and Randolph are separated by an intervening unit containing the Dining Hall, Common Rooms, Library, and C entry, the whole is linked together by a subterranean passage which has access...
...there are reasons, next let there be facts. The change from the bullfinch and wren to the gargoyle is good, as is, in the light of evolutionary abstraction, any change. More than this the Vagabond is an incorrigible romanticist to whose lights the very juices of a glamorous spectacle are good. He is bewitched by the surging crowds, maddened by a foolish, over-emphasized sport. He falls under the enchantment of fair ladyes, breathing an exotic Parisian perfume (twenty-five dollars an ounce in the year of our Lord nineteen-hundred and twenty-nine)and he remembers one, perhaps...