Word: architect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Hadley of Yale has announced that architect's plans are now being considered by the corporation for the centennial memorial building which Yale plans to erect before 1901. It will be somewhat similar to Memorial Hall but on a larger scale. It will contain an auditorium and dining hall, and, in connection with it, will be office buildings for the president and the executive officers of the university. Over $400,000 have already been raised, but $750,000 are needed...
Ground has already been broken for a new dormitory on Massachusetts avenue just below Beck Hall. According to the plans of the architect, Mr. James Fogerty, the dormitory will resemble closely those on Mount Auburn street, with its foundations and first story of granite and the upper stories of brick with stone trimmings. The building, which is to be lighted by electricity and heated by steam, will be five stories high and contain thirty-one single and four double suites. It will be ready for occupancy next fall...
...this last is concerned even our plan will bear witness of entire success. The conditions offered Mr. Longfellow were discouraging in the extreme. Graduates and undergraduates alike were exclaiming against what they considered an outrage on the College grounds. Any architect might have felt that popular prejudice was against him from the start. We believe that Mr. Longfellow has dealt so successfully with the narrow space allotted him, that even the situation of the building will cease in measure to be criticized...
...account of the small size of the building the corporation were unwilling to give it any other site than the one selected. This corner of the yard has been much objected to as a site, and the architect, Mr. A. W. Longfellow, Jr., '76, who has felt great responsibility in designing the building, has done all in his power to make it harmonize with its surroundings...
...plans by Mr. John E. Howe, a New York architect, are for a four story brick building with sandstone trimmings after the style of Apley Court. There will be twenty-eight suites in all, five single and two double suites on each floor. Each suite will be provided with private bath and the interior will be like that of Claverly. The range of prices is from $175 to $250 for a single and from $300 to $400 for a double suite. The plans are to be seen at Thurston's but the rooms have all been rented, the building...