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Article: MIT refurbishes Memorial Drive site
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 24, 1992
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CopyrightCopyright 1992 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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CAMBRIDGE -- Some know it as the former Ford assembly plant,
others as the Polaroid building. A few remember it as an R. H. White
department store outlet.
Throughout those incarnations, the five-story, block-long building
on Memorial Drive at Brookline Street, opposite the Boston University
bridge, has been a visual landmark.
Its finest hour was sunset, when its 48,000 panes of glass, would
flash in the evening sunlight and catch the eye of passing motorists
and pedestrians.
Now, after several years of uncertainty, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, its owner, is spending $13 million to bring
it back as a manufacturing and office building.
The inside has been gutted. Windows are ...