Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With completion of this purchase. Harvard now is in possession of practically all the land along the river on both sides...
...acquisition of the plant completes the crescent of Harvard's frontage on the Charles from Boylston street to Western Avenue on both sides of the river. The Western end of the crescent will be closed according to the official statement, by a new House to be built on the site of the power plant, adjacent to Smith Halls. But the development of the remainder of the Cambridge side of the river, below McKinlock Hall, must be governed by its remoteness from the greater part of the University. To build more Houses here for College undergraduates would be impractical considering...
Similarly, the opposite bank of the Charles may lie fallow until the growth around it has taken shape, when new uses will undoubtedly arise for it. That part of it back from the river, behind Baker Library, might, however, be put to immediate as a site for the power plant which must be erected to supply Harvard with heat and light. Already the Weeks Bridge carries the pipes for the service of the Business School. The same ducts might be employed for the passage of conduits from a main plant located in Alliston. Other plots of University-owned ground available...
...land now occupied by the power house. The building is a substation of the Elevated, acting in a reserve capacity, and it also supplies heat by means of a tunnel for the University buildings in the yard and to the north of it as well as across the river to the Business School...
...which the University is now drawing up plans. the site of the new structure, which will be on land already held by the University, has not yet been definitely decided upon, but the most probable location is that to the east of the Business School, back from the Charles River...