WEIGHT-BEARING WALLS. Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article by Catesby Leigh on Princeton’s new Whitman College, which will be dedicated Thursday. I had noticed below the suggestion that Harvard should preserve its brand by keeping Georgian style for its buildings. Princeton’s new college will retain the Collegiate Gothic style, which, I guess, is Princeton’s brand. Leigh’s article also points out that the new buildings will use “traditional load-bearing construction” with walls that are about one foot and a half thick, much less than the six foot walls of the Monadnock Building from 1891.
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I remember being told i40 odd years ago by Chet Kamin, then I think not yet married to my cousin Nancy, that the residential colleges south of Harvard Yard were the only Harvard buildings not built in a contemporary style –the style of the time when they were built. So the Georgian feel of Harvard would stem from the 1930’s.
Scrolling backward, I see that Phil already has said exactly this. I’m a little surprised that we both remember a casual remark from so long ago.