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Architectural Tour of Harvard Square
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Architectural Tour of Harvard Square
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" Within an easy circumference of us you can find three centuries of case with architecture. Starting with a watch with house -- built seventeen twice for the president of Harvard but going on to college all over here which the nineteenth century to house students. And continuing in the twentieth century the controversy over existing buildings that are opposed -- taken down from modern building. Exactly Harvard Square still represents wooden buildings from two centuries ago. But most of -- think it Harvard yard is being all Georgian brick building rental. Well there's a lot of Georgian brick but that's just around the corner and turned itself slightly away from the Harvard Square. The old guard faces with prominent house on at the Massachusetts all of your eighteenth century into the dormitory classroom building and then harbor -- And at the end that has a wonderful granite building designed bubble bench which really defines what's what people think of as far as Harvard college and Harvard yard today. And of course just outside the yard we have one of my favorite landmarks memorial hall one of the most exuberant examples of nineteenth century architecture around. And the history of Cambridge involves -- social groups that the puritans who first came here as well as the British. Aristocrats the -- right."
" But the puritans came to either way to get away from the church of England the purified from the Pacific life in New England. And in the late seventeenth century the royal governor's the church of England came establishing small churches and -- general welfare of -- associated group. Who had a different way and it's curtains and entirely likely. -- the -- living side by side attending Harvard attending church within a couple hundred yards of where we stand some of them living in great elegance and others living in great complicity here in Cambridge certain number of houses like the people frost -- house which -- north it's where. Center chimney houses built but for farmers. Very simple living often live their cooking eating sleeping arrangements were all the same room stores that are above. By contrast the Longfellow house out of -- through the house committee teen center built for a wealthy -- With plantations the West Indies and how shows that when it's a brand carving into the hallway and palladian style exactly."
