Word: handsomest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...group of five buildings which is to house the Freshmen is situated on the banks of the Charles River, near the bridge to Soldiers Field. They are singularly successful architecturally, being the handsomest structures that have gone up in Harvard within the memory of man, and are an adaptation of the early Colonial style, from which Harvard, like Yale and others, should never have departed. The credit for their planning belongs to Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, the Boston architects. There are three groups, Standish and Gore Halls and the Smith Halls, each consisting of three buildings, in the centre...
...constructing our first building, which is pronounced by experts to be the finest and handsomest example of college architecture in eastern Massachusetts. It is on property which we bought from the Charles Eliot Norton estate-five acres altogether-and adjoins the land of the Harvard Divinity School. The building will cost about a quarter of a million dollars. For the time it will house the seminary completely, offering even dormitory facilities...