Word: historicized
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University attempts to ensure the construction of new buildings for the Graduate School of Education by obtaining changes in the boundary lines of a proposed Cambridge Common Historic District were challenged by Charles William Eliot, professor of City and Regional Planning, at a public meeting last night.
In a letter to the Historic Districts Committee, the University has requested that the boundary line on the Garden St. side of the Common be redrawn to include only 100 feet of land from the street. The proposed boundary encompasses 200 feet, but the site for the ed school's...
Eliot a leader in the long battle to establish several historic districts within Cambridge, said after the meeting that he opposes the University's request because "all the land around Christ Church must be included in the historic district."
Proposal to turn the area around the Cambridge Common into a historic "is not likely to affect the new buildings of the Graduate School of Education to any great extent," the chairman of the Historic Districts Committee yesterday afternoon.
the historic districts plan does win approval from the City Councillor Wolfe declared, "the only real represent for the Ed School will be its plans to one more board." He that the Commission would make sure that the School "was certain lines of architecture in buildings."