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Destroyed by fire in 1956, the Memorial Hall tower could rise again if a newly created challenge fund raises enough money for its reconstruction...
Harvard installed clocks and a bell in the original 200-foot tower in 1897. Memorial Hall chimed at the hour until the 1956 fire...
...years since, controversy has swirled around Memorial Hall. Alumni and historians have argued unsuccessfully--and colorfully--that the clock and tower should be replaced. Robert Campbell and Peter Vanderwarker, writing for the Boston Globe last spring, described the towerless Memorial Hall as "an architectural Bobbitt case...
...ongoing renovations don't include replacing the tower, but they have, yet again, raised controversy. A local architect, working with the Massachusetts and Cambridge Historical Commissions, has been fighting the University's plans to add loading bays and a kitchen to the Kirkland St. side of the historical hall...
Much of the ornate ironwork that was added during the early part of the century was removed and melted in the 1940s for use in the war effort. The fire did even greater damage, though everything but the clock and tower were eventually repaired...