Word: sites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Housing Trust's new buildings providing accommodations for married graduate students have been just completed. The site of the graduate homes occupies a half acre of land facing on Mr. Vernon Street and lying between Sparks Street and Doane Street. The grading and landscaping of the grounds are still in progress but will be completed this fall...
...When we had penetrated upstream five or six days' journey beyond the last Indian village, we halted and searched for ancient ruins. Eight miles from the river, we discovered an old site that yielded ceremonial deposits of metates, or corngrinders, of many sizes and stone columns carved with symbols. We loaded some of the discoveries and brought them back with us, thereby increasing our navigation difficulties considerably...
...West India Goods store near the corner specialized in salt fish, rum, molasses, vinegar, farm produce, grain, tea and coffee, hardware, paint, lard oils and a hundred other general commodities. The local jail occupied the property now the site of the Pi Eta clubhouse near the corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets. The community was small and everybody knew everybody else and all about them...
...When Holyoke House was constucted in 1870 on the site of Mrs. Hyde's little shop, it was originaly intended to be a hotel, but this plan was not carried through by the college. Holyoke House was built on tax exempt property, but the six inches of land that supports the party wall between it and Little Hall is not tax free, and the city collected revenue on this strip for some time, and as far as I know, it still does...
...corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn streets has been purchased by the Manter Hall Tutoring School, and will be the site of a large new building to be erected and occupied by that institution, it was announced last night. The Dunster House Bookshop and the Advocate Building, which now stand on the newly-acquired property of Manter Hall, will be torn down this fall. The land was sold by the Dunster House Bookshop, previous owners of the property...