Word: dunster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roar of steam and clank of steel have long made many conscious of the excavation going on for the new University Gymnasium on the plot of ground bounded by Dunster, South, Holyoke, and Winthrop Streets. The digging attracts scores who are awed by the work itself. Few however, realize the historical significance of this ground, which hour by hour, week by week, is being scooped up in the huge jaws of the steam shovels, and carried away by a never ending stream of trucks. For some time the workers of the Hegeman, Harris Co., of New York, the contractors have...
...that the house Theodore Roosevelt occupied during his four Harvard years from 1876 to 1880 stood until last fall at the corner of Holyoke and Winthrop streets. Many witnessed the sensational moving of the historic Hicks house, which remained for the first 166 years of its existence on the Dunster-Winthrop Street corner of the plot. But these two buildings stood witness to but a small portion of the rich history this remarkable ground has borne upon its surface...
...possibility of moving the present Freshman library and other houses on Dunster Street, including the quarters of the naval science department, to the site of these old apartment houses, has been considered as one of the new House units is to be erected on Dunster Street. The idea has been rejected, however, as impractical because of the high cost of such an undertaking and it has been decided to go ahead with the original plan of wrecking these houses as well...
...requested that changes favorable to the University's plan be made. In part, he said that "The public streets which we should like to have discontinued. ...are neither many nor important to the city. They are as follows: Colonial Way (formerly called Otter Street); South Street between Holyoke and Dunster Streets...... changes in the line of the southern end of Holyoke Street, as previously indicated to you." The changes referred to will consist of widening and straightening the passage...
...most obvious obstacles to the plan is the difference in the space between Mount Auburn Street and the Freshman Halls and the Stretch between Dunster and DeWolf Streets. The much greater length than breadth of the section is a serious problem especially as regards the more-crowded western side of the proposed rectangular Yard. Any adjustment, however, which would save the empty plot behind Gore would establish a basic formula for future progress, rapid or leisurely, toward a Yard of insured openness...