Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WORK on Stoughton is being pushed forward rapidly, and a new roof is already partly in place...
...Stoughton's sturdy roof...
From ancient Stoughton's low-hung roof...
...burned its roof away...
...whole south entry was flooded, the water, several inches deep, covering the floors of the upper rooms, and leaking down through holes in the ceiling. At about noon the fire was under control, but was not entirely out until an hour later. A large part of the south roof was burnt, leaving the rooms below open to the air, and obliging all the occupants of the entry to seek shelter elsewhere. Vacant rooms in Thayer and Holyoke were placed at their disposal by the Bursar. No satisfactory explanation of the way in which the fire started has yet been given...