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...year-old cage was torn down last Friday to make room for an expanded entrance to the University's athletic complex and to accommodate a planned racquet facility, University administrators said earlier this month. All that remained of the building yesterday afternoon was a heap of splintered wood and twisted metal...
According to Floyd and other architectural historians, the cage was built in 1897 and was designed by Langford Warren, who was the first dean of the Harvard School of Design...
Floyd said the cage was also historically valuable as the fist steel-frame building at Harvard...
Shand-Tucci, who served as a tutor in Eliot House during the 80's and wrote a number of articles on Harvard architecture for Harvard Magazine, said he fears the destruction of the cage is part of a trend of neglect for architectural history at the University...
Citing the controversial additions to Memorial Hall, the decision to divide the Freshman Union's great space into separate offices and now the decision to demolish the cage, Shand-Tucci said: "History is important to Harvard. Even the crudest person would realize that it's not very good for Harvard to be dumping on its history in this...