Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although no one argued that Hunt represented great architecture, and represented great architecture, and very few people knew where the building was before the controversy, Len Gittleman, lecturer on photography, called Hunt "the only building in Boston that represents the struggles of American architecture at the turn of the century," and the Society of Architectural Historians joined the fight to preserve the structure...
...Hunt Hall was designed by architect Richard Hunt, who also designed the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It was completed in 1895 to house the Fogg Art Museum, which was since moved to a building on Quincy Street, across from the Yard...
...building was an instant failure. The Crimson said, "The lines of the building are hardly what the College had hoped for." Observers found the building "squatty," "awkward," or wished that it had more height and more windows. When Memorial Church was built just south of its site, Hunt became a hidden anomaly in the Yard, chopping at the tall white spire of the proud Church...
FACED WITH the need to put Canaday's $3 million somewhere, Bok cut down the size of the proposed dorm, winning approval for the project from the Faculty Council, and announced to the Save Hunt Hall lobby that the building would come down...
...plan, which panders to coeducation and expansion at the same time, was formulated to simultaneously appease students who wanted more women at Harvard, and alumni who would not accept a reduction in male enrollment. The decision has already sealed the doom of Hunt Hall, and each oversized class that it brings to Cambridge will act as a wedge to force Cambridge residents away from Harvard Square. As long as the priorities of prestige and academic whim guide Harvard's plans, the University will face tough decisions about where and how to build...