Word: sites
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...united in an expression of opinion that the best memorial to Harvard's soldiers would be a building for all Harvard students. On November 3, 1890, the gift by major H. L. Higginson of $150,000 for a University Club was announced. The offer by the Corporation of the site on the corner of Quincy and Harvard streets made Major Higginson's gift immediately applicable...
...Cambridge syndicate has recently purchased three adjoining parcels of land on Massachusetts Avenue, opposite Beck Hall, with a view to erecting a hotel which will cost about $300,000. The "College Inn" building, which now stands on the site, will be removed. The hotel is intended to offer accommodation to parents and friends of students, who come for a day or two, and who would otherwise seek lodgings in Boston; and also to provide for dinners and banquets. To this end the cafe will probably be made a prominent feature, and a banquet hall and private dining rooms will...
...Andrew Carnegie proposes to erect and furnish buildings for a polytechnic school at Pittsburg, with an endowment of $1,000,000. The city is to furnish the site...
...David P. Kimball in 1898 gave to Radcliffe the sum of $50,000 for the purpose of building a home for Radcliffe students. Recently the college purchased a site for the building, bounded by Garden, Walker, Linnean, and Shepard streets. It is expected that the house will be completed by September, 1901. It will be called Bertram Hall...
Ground has been broken for the new Infirmary, the gift to Mr. James Stillman of New York. The contract has been awarded to Norcross Brothers, and the work of digging the foundations has already begun. The site now being built upon is a different piece of property from the land originally chosen. It was planned at first to build the Infirmary on Mt. Auburn street, between the Old People's Home and the Cambridge Hospital. Recently however, an arrangement has been made with the Cambridge Hospital by which the land was exchanged for a lot on Mt. Auburn street...