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VANSERG HALL was hastily built in 1943 by the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development as a radar laboratory. The architectural firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott, which under one name or another designed all the River Houses, departed from the neo-Georgian elegance that characterized their earlier work for Harvard and put together a plain three-story structure with a flat roof and red shingles...
...Office, situated on scenic Prescott Street (would you believe they dragged an entire house across the campus?), is scheduled to be open. That is, if they finish putting it together in time. But they may not, in which case their office will still be in University Hall, that Bullfinch-designed bastion of deans and suckups. Either way, they will be open, but you should...
...Overseers began meeting at 10 a.m. in the Faculty room of University Hall, which was built in 1815 by Charles Bullfinch and studded with portraits and statues of famous Harvard Presidents and professors. The Corporation gathered in an adjoining room in Dean Dunlop's office...
...department of Printing and Graphic Arts, recalled last week "when period styles were going out of fashion and modern art and architecture were coming in. The building was heavily criticized by all the modernists and heavily supported by all the traditionalists-Coolidge, for example, of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch. Abbott. and God." Hofer's eyes twinkled. "Please do not leave out God, because he was one of their junior partners...
...building is being designed by the same architectural firm that did Leverett and Quincy Houses--Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson, and Abbott...