Word: mellons
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What kind of people are spending for such things? And why? An immensely wealthy individual-a Getty, a Norton Simon, a Mellon-finds in great art what eluded Alexander of Macedon-a last world to conquer. It is a lust to which overachievers have been notoriously susceptible, from Catherine the Great, who built Leningrad's incomparable Hermitage ("I am not a nibbler but a glutton") to U.S. Industrialist Joseph Hirshhorn, the great benefactor of the Smithsonian ("I have a madman's rage for art"). To be sure, such stupendous collectors and donors still make record purchases...
Signed by more than a dozen residents in the Wendell, Mellon and Oxford St. area, the petition calls for "a temporary moratorium on conversion of residential structures to educational and religious uses...to provide time for the city to implement" permanent regulations on the use of institutional property...
Lesley has already begun renovating one of their latest acquisitions, a vacant home at 7 Mellon St., into office space. Tenants in 22-24 Wendell St. will have until the summer to vacate. "We don't use the term 'eviction,' but they know we are interested in taking possession," Blake said. Both buildings came to Lesley through Harvard...
Harvard on Friday sold four houses along Wendell and Mellon streets to Lesley College, raising fears among neighbors that the homes, currently used for open housing, might be converted to office space...
...Core also received a $1.25 million grant from the Mellon Foundation last spring for faculty and course development costs of humanities and history courses...