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...Carey was not simply another functional building cluttering a campus studded with contemporary architectural embarrassments. It stood as a unique landmark by Harvard Stadium, an enigmatically Tudor edifice symbolizing Harvard tradition and pride...
Perhaps officials unschooled in architecture couldn't distinguish Carey's frame from a ski lodge (which, admittedly, it did rather resemble). Nevertheless, the storm of protest from experts in the field of design should have been more fully considered. As architectural historian Douglass Shand-Tucci '72 complained, "Even the crudest person would realize that it's not very good for Harvard to be dumping on its history this...
Built in 1897 by Langford Warren (the first dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design), Carey Cage's eclectic design bridged the styles of architects ranging from H. H. Richardson to Frank Lloyd Wright. As the first steel-frame building on the campus, it stood as a link between the University's 19th-century development and its 20th-century rise to prominence...
These and other eyesores must be averted. Clearly the beadles who destroyed Carey Cage have little or no respect for architectural history...
...call on those now renovating the Union to respect the work of legendary architects McKim, Mead and White and to keep historical considerations in mind during its renovations. Though it's too late to right the wrong done to Carey Cage, we can still preserve the historic sites that remain...