The university has officially agreed to preserve the remaining Brown Houses instead of moving forward with the demolition. I am genuinely stunned by this outcome and know it only happened because of the time you all took to speak up for history. We should stay alert to ensure these buildings …
February 28, 2022
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We, the undersigned, oppose the University of Connecticut's plan to demolish one or both of the remaining Brown Houses (Faculty Row) on its Storrs Campus. The buildings are listed as contributing resources on the National Register of Historic Places and are among the last vestiges of the agricultural college that laid the foundations for the current university. This latest proposal to destroy history comes just four years after UConn and the State Historic Preservation Office agreed to allow the demolition of 7 of the structures if 2 (3 and 4 Gilbert Road) were retained, rehabilitated and adaptively re-used. Now UConn proposes to destroy them for a 200,000sf residence hall. Please help us to save what remains of UConn's history and our state's collective heritage.
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January 6, 2022
Seeing 250 names on this page is honestly overwhelming and I never imagined this would reach so many people. This belongs to all of you who care about our history as much as I do.
Reached 250 supporters
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Reached 100 supporters
December 20, 2021
141 Comments
As an institute of Higher Education, the University of Connecticut should be endeavoring to preserve our State’s culture and past, not to mention its own. To be an active participant in the destruction of it and attempting to circumvent agreements made with the SHPO, is shameful.
I lived at 3Gilbert Road as a student and Delta Zeta. Faculty row is an important part of Greek history at UConn and has great sentimental value as well as historical value.
Please keep these buildings. The growth and new construction over the last 22 years since I have graduated has changed the University from a campus with architecture to a sterile city. Please slow your growth………
My Paternal Grandmother, Ann Lambert Morrissey, was a graduate of the UCONN Agricultural College. In her Memory, and All of those who followed, I sign this Petition.
I lived in one of these homes on Hillside Road in the late 1950s and early’60s. Those houses were demolished to make way for dorms. Very sad. When I was growing up these homes were everywhere it seemed and housed staff and faculty.
Pleeeeease do not destroy these buildings ! They are part of our history and your history. They should not be replaced. History comes in many ways and these buildings are examples. Best regards, Wendy Pawlak (history teacher and education advocate)
Stop destroying our past.
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The university has officially agreed to preserve the remaining Brown Houses instead of moving forward with the demolition. I am genuinely stunned by this outcome and know it only happened because of the time you all took to speak up for history. We should stay alert to ensure these buildings …
February 28, 2022
Final supporters
We, the undersigned, oppose the University of Connecticut's plan to demolish one or both of the remaining Brown Houses (Faculty Row) on its Storrs Campus. The buildings are listed as contributing resources on the National Register of Historic Places and are among the last vestiges of the agricultural college that laid the foundations for the current university. This latest proposal to destroy history comes just four years after UConn and the State Historic Preservation Office agreed to allow the demolition of 7 of the structures if 2 (3 and 4 Gilbert Road) were retained, rehabilitated and adaptively re-used. Now UConn proposes to destroy them for a 200,000sf residence hall. Please help us to save what remains of UConn's history and our state's collective heritage.
Updates
January 6, 2022
Seeing 250 names on this page is honestly overwhelming and I never imagined this would reach so many people. This belongs to all of you who care about our history as much as I do.
Reached 250 supporters
January 5, 2022
Reached 100 supporters
December 20, 2021
141 Comments
UConn needs to address some historic preservation. They need to look to other universities such as Yale and Harvard that have renovated, by necessity, and maintained a sense of history.
As an institute of Higher Education, the University of Connecticut should be endeavoring to preserve our State’s culture and past, not to mention its own. To be an active participant in the destruction of it and attempting to circumvent agreements made with the SHPO, is shameful.
I lived at 3Gilbert Road as a student and Delta Zeta. Faculty row is an important part of Greek history at UConn and has great sentimental value as well as historical value.
Please keep these buildings. The growth and new construction over the last 22 years since I have graduated has changed the University from a campus with architecture to a sterile city. Please slow your growth………
My Paternal Grandmother, Ann Lambert Morrissey, was a graduate of the UCONN Agricultural College. In her Memory, and All of those who followed, I sign this Petition.
I lived in one of these homes on Hillside Road in the late 1950s and early’60s. Those houses were demolished to make way for dorms. Very sad. When I was growing up these homes were everywhere it seemed and housed staff and faculty.
Pleeeeease do not destroy these buildings ! They are part of our history and your history. They should not be replaced. History comes in many ways and these buildings are examples. Best regards, Wendy Pawlak (history teacher and education advocate)
Stop destroying our past.
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UConn needs to address some historic preservation. They need to look to other universities such as Yale and Harvard that have renovated, by necessity, and maintained a sense of history.