Word: parking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...erection of a monument in a park to be laid out on the vacant ground on the south bank of the Charles River has been proposed-as a memorial to the men of Harvard who have fallen in the great war. At present the land on the further bank of the river and across Harvard Street from Soldiers Field, recently acquired by the University, is not being utilized in any way. Without much difficulty the plot could be converted into a small park which would be peculiarly appropriate as a memorial to the University men who have died in this...
Some time ago a committee was appointed by the President of the University, at the request of the Mayor of Cambridge, to study the best means for improving Cambridge in the vicinity of Harvard Square. The plans which the committee submitted, and which were adopted, provide for such a park on the further side of the Charles River, as shown in the accompanying cut taken from the committee's report...
...bird's eye view is taken from a point directly above Memorial Hall. All the College buildings in the Yard have been cut out in order to show more clearly the proposed improvements. In addition to the park shown in the left, of the picture on the other side of the Charles, the plans include the widening of Massachusetts avenue by placing the sidewalk under arcades to be constructed in existing buildings on the southern side of the avenue; the establishment of new building lines on Harvard square itself, thus increasing the size of the Square; the widening of Boylston...
...parade, which is scheduled for one o'clock, starts at Beacon and Charles streets. From there the men march up Park, Tremont, Boylston and Arlington streets, thence along Commonwealth avenue, northeast to Charlesgate, from there back along Commonwealth avenue and through Berkeley and Boylston streets, Massachusetts and Columbus avenues until it reaches Park Square where it will be dismissed...
...Palfrey estate, on which the Naval Radio School drill hall is erected. This was the decision reached by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt after a conference on the subject with Mayor Edward W. Quinn, of Cambridge. It is planned to maintain the site as a public park and the drill hall for community purposes. The value of the estate is placed...