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...state commission appointed to recommend a Massachusetts memorial to President Kennedy recentlyg suggested that the state cede six acres of the 12-acre Bennett St. MBTA Yards, across Boylston St. from Eliot House, to the federal government. The six acres would house the buildings directly connected with the library...
...announcement that the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library will be located on the site of the Bennett Sreet MBTA Yards is expected sometime this week or next...
...source close to the Kennedy family said yesterday that details of the transfer of land were expected to be ironed out at a meeting held yesterday. The land transfer question was the only thing blocking an immediate decision to put the Library on the MBTA Yards...
Purchase of the MBTA yards would permit the construction of the larger library now considered necessary and would still leave room for substantial parking space. But the land has been valued at $6 million, and its purchase would greatly increase the $20 million price tax Library officials had estimated would be required to build the Library complex and endow the Institute of politics that will be connected with...
...sycamore trees which line Memorial Drive near Boylston St. form a frontage for the Bennett St. MBTA Yards, the likely choice for the Kennedy Library. I.M. Pei, the Library's architect, has talked to MDC officials, including Whitmore and his predecessor Robert F. Murphy, about the Memorial Drive situation. He is reported to oppose the construction of the underpasses on aesthetic grounds...