Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Motor House, ugly but relatively cheap, is about to close its doors, so the parents who have booked rooms there for Commencement 1989 will have to look else-where. On DeWolfe St., behind Quincy House, a hundred luxury condominiums will soon offer a view of the Charles to those who can afford it--and traffic hassles to everyone else. To the east, the foundation holes for two more office buildings gape across Mass...
Three of the projects in the southwestern sector of the Square area make up a cooperative effort among three private developers to extend the shopping district and provide more office space. But the largest step in this renovation of the area is Harvard's decision to lease the Harvard Motor House to the same developers who built the Charles Hotel...
...chance opened up for the largest development in the area when the University decided not to renew the contract of the Harvard Motor House, a favored hotel for parents of undergraduates. Instead, it leased the Motor House to the part-owners of the rival Charles Square Hotel. These new lessors plan to replace the House with an office building...
Many builders said they will be glad to see the Motor House leave the skyline. "That's a monstrosity," said developer Louis F. DiGiovanni. "Anything would be better than that." And Spiegelman conceded, "It's a building that doesn't have much in the way of architectural character, the way it floats on those decks of parking...
Spiegelman said that of all the Motor House's critics, "the people who feel most that way are Carpenter and Co. because their major project is sitting across the street from what is considered an eyesore...