John Harvard's Journal

Updated 8.29.2023

Taking Shape

Photograph by Les Vants Aerial Photos / courtesy of Harvard Art Museums

A (snowless) late-winter aerial view of the Fogg Art Museum reconstruction shows a huge crane—put in place once new subsurface floors were built—beginning to place the steel frame for the new Prescott Street entrance. In April, the reopening was deferred; it is now scheduled for fall 2014.

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