Word: restorationism
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The original plans for the restoration project, proposed by Radcliffe landscapers last year, included a surrounding garden, but such ideas had to be reduced for economic and aesthetic reasons.
However, the extensive restoration work will not interfere much with the use of Sanders Theatre or Memorial Hall. "Only a small amount of our work is noisy," Riley said. "We worked all during final exams [last spring] without a single complaint."
To make matters more complicated, the building is a registered historical landmark, so the restoration work must preserve--and not alter--the surface of the structure, designed to commemorate Harvard students who died in the Civil War.
Rather than deplete the Fogg's collection, the restoration project commissioned two new gargoyles for the Mem Hall skyline, and they will be installed some time this fall.
The restoration's most dramatic change will be the replacement of Mem Hall's missing gargoyles. Each of the building's four towers was originally inhabited by one of these creatures, but only two of them remain. One of the missing gargoyles currently resides in the Fogg Art Museum and...