September 1, 2007

Moving On

Photograph by Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office To accommodate Harvard Law School’s large new building, an existing garage and...

From The September-October 2007 Issue

Photograph by Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office

To accommodate Harvard Law School’s large new building, an existing garage and dormitory had to be razed. But three historic wooden buildings were saved, making a gingerly trip up the closed Massachusetts Avenue on the weekend of June 23-25—their weight carefully distributed to avoid collapsing the Red Line subway tunnel underneath. For more on summer campus construction, see "Scaffolding and Science."

Published in the September-October 2007 print issue in the John Harvard's Journal section.

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