Word: plympton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Work on the razing of two wooden tenement houses in the block between De Wolfe and Plympton Streets is now under way, it was announced yesterday by A. L. Endicott '94, comptroller of the University. One of these houses is already nearly demolished and the wrecking crew yesterday began work on the other...
These buildings, with others abutting on Plympton Street below Mt. Auburn Street, have been owned by the University for a number of years. Before Soldier's Field was used to such an extent as today and before the Freshman dormitories were built, this region was one of the most unattractive in Cambridge. The destruction of these houses, both of cheap construction, marks one more step in the University's attempt in recent years to clean up the district, since the expansion of the College in that direction...
...plan which was finally accepted calls for the completion of the Houses by the fall of 1930; one on a plot of land north of Gore Hall and bounded by Plympton, Mt. Auburn, and Holyoke Streets; the other on a triangular lot adjoining Memorial Drive just east of McKinlock Hall. In the case of the former, however, it was advisable to alter Holyoke Street at the southern end, where there is an awkward bend in it; while the construction of the second House would be hampered, if not prevented, by Colonial Way, which cuts the triangular lot into halves...
Announcement was made last night from University Hall, that the building at present occupied by the Lampoon at the intersection of Mt. Auburn, Bow, and Plympton Streets, would be taken over by the University to serve as a dining hall of the "Gold Coast House" in the development of the House plan. This most recent and wholly unexpected move by the college authorities was made, according to statements issued by officials last night, as a direct result of the House plan number of the Lampoon, which went on sale yesterday evening...
...report, is entirely possible by the careful choice of sites for the new buildings and the elimination of streets. The immediate danger to anything approaching this orderly arrangement is the imminent location of one of the first new Houses at the northwest corner of Mill Street and Plympton. This would place the new house directly opposite Gore and absolutely preclude an ultimate development having even a remote connection with the plan of the Student Council. Haphazard distribution of the units, dictated by immediate convenience, is an evil to be avoided. The first house should not be dropped down upon...