Word: houghton
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Before its closure last year, the bridge allowed patrons of Houghton who used the library’s rare book and manuscript collection to move easily into Widener’s more general offerings. Patrons and staff could access the two-way bridge through a buzzer system...
...covered bridge connecting Widener and Houghton Libraries, whose peculiar history has long peppered Harvard tours with quirky anecdotes, will be demolished this spring, library officials have announced...
...such, when Widener was connected to Houghton in 1942, the bridge had to be constructed through a preexisting window, forming one of Harvard’s most unusual architectural structures...
...clause forbidding “additions or alterations” to the exterior has proved the most troublesome for Harvard architects and lawyers, and the Solomonic compromise which gave birth to the now doomed bridge between Widener and Houghton has stood in University lore for decades...
...you’re doing humanities or social sciences research, chances are you’re doing research in Widener or Lamont or Houghton, all of which are a few feet from each other,” says Noah M. McCormack ’04, a history concentrator who voiced his concern about the relocation. “They’re all essentially one complex. It’s an integrated collection and [the relocation] is very shortsighted. I didn’t know where Littauer was until last semester...