2008 Woodie Awards
It's going to be like night and day
Andrea Medeiros, Kelley Allen, Jonathan Schwab and Madeira Ginley and edited by Nicole Mongeon
Issue date: 4/13/06 Section: Lifestyle
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As Emerson prepares to make its final move completing its "Campus on the Common," a vision set in motion in 1988 after the college abandoned failed attemps at establishing a new campus in Lawrence and a law school in Lowell, The Beacon takes a look back at what the West Side once was and what our new home in the Theatre District has and will become.
132 Beacon St.
As Emerson's smallest dormitory, 132 Beacon St. houses about 75 students, according to the Emerson Web site at emerson.edu.
According to emerson.edu, the quaint brownstone building was purchased in 1964. It offered students the chance to live in the Performing Cultures community.
According to the 2005-2006 Emerson catalogue, this community is where students can learn how to perform based on "aesthetic, cultural and social scientific perspectives."
6 Arlington St.
The dorm at 6 Arlington St. was purchased in 1988 for $11 million. According to brownstonian.com, it is now on sale for $16,900,000.
At the time of the purchase, Emerson and the Katharine Gibbs school were to share some of the facilities. The Katharine Gibbs school was a division of Macmillan Publishing Co., according to an article that ran in The Boston Globe on Jan. 9, 1988 after Emerson had purchased the site.
The building is a bit smaller than 100 Beacon St., and is 10 stories tall, housing 160 residents. When Emerson bought 6 Arlington St., the college was housing 30 students at the Eliot Hotel at 370 Commonwealth Ave.
Plans to relocate Emerson College to Lawrence, Mass. were in the works the year 6 Arlington St. was purchased. The land Emerson wanted to build on in Lawrence was originally going to be taken by eminent domain, which meant the land could be taken without the owner's consent. When real estate values in Boston diminished and the costs of building a new campus went up, the plans of relocation were put on hold by former college President Allen E. Koenig.When Koenig resigned in 1989, the relocation plans went with him. Twenty years later, the school is still short on student housing, with more than 80 students being housed at the Doubletree Hotel.
132 Beacon St.
As Emerson's smallest dormitory, 132 Beacon St. houses about 75 students, according to the Emerson Web site at emerson.edu.
According to emerson.edu, the quaint brownstone building was purchased in 1964. It offered students the chance to live in the Performing Cultures community.
According to the 2005-2006 Emerson catalogue, this community is where students can learn how to perform based on "aesthetic, cultural and social scientific perspectives."
6 Arlington St.
The dorm at 6 Arlington St. was purchased in 1988 for $11 million. According to brownstonian.com, it is now on sale for $16,900,000.
At the time of the purchase, Emerson and the Katharine Gibbs school were to share some of the facilities. The Katharine Gibbs school was a division of Macmillan Publishing Co., according to an article that ran in The Boston Globe on Jan. 9, 1988 after Emerson had purchased the site.
The building is a bit smaller than 100 Beacon St., and is 10 stories tall, housing 160 residents. When Emerson bought 6 Arlington St., the college was housing 30 students at the Eliot Hotel at 370 Commonwealth Ave.
Plans to relocate Emerson College to Lawrence, Mass. were in the works the year 6 Arlington St. was purchased. The land Emerson wanted to build on in Lawrence was originally going to be taken by eminent domain, which meant the land could be taken without the owner's consent. When real estate values in Boston diminished and the costs of building a new campus went up, the plans of relocation were put on hold by former college President Allen E. Koenig.When Koenig resigned in 1989, the relocation plans went with him. Twenty years later, the school is still short on student housing, with more than 80 students being housed at the Doubletree Hotel.
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