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...hotel site was formerly occupied by St. Paul's Catholic Church. On January 30 of this year, while the old wooden structure was being torn down, it was announced that E. N. Wyner '16 had bought the plot for the purpose of erecting a large hotel...
Then for months the matter was dropped. Although Mr. Wyner had announced on February 6 that his plans were nearly complete for immediate construction nothing more was done. Many people began to feel that the whole affair was a clever hoax to force the President and Fellows to buy the property at a large price. Meanwhile architects in Boston were working and reworking at their plans for the hotel...
...proposed Roosevelt Hotel, at Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets, will be built, all adverse criticism not-withstanding. As the University has taken no action to buy the site, Edward N. Wyner '18 announced yesterday that he would go ahead with his original plans, and gave directions for work on the foundation to begin immediately...
...Thomas J. Daly, agent for the owner of Beck Hall, made public his plans to tear down the old dormitory and erect in its place a large apartment house and a row of stores. The land, a total area of 31,000 square feet, was first offered to Mr. Wyner for his hotel, in the event that the University should buy the Mt. Auburn Street property...
...Holyoke and Mount Auburn Streets would make any such alteration impossible. The hotel is also out of keeping with the Board's plans for the retention of the Mount Auburn Street district as a club section, an informal, but intrinsic segment of their proposals. Undergraduate feeling against Mr. Wyner's project is based largely on this second reason