The university officially announced that Faculty Row will be preserved instead of demolished. It has been a long and exhausting fight to protect these buildings but seeing them saved makes all the strain worth it. We should keep an eye on the renovation plans to ensure they follow through on …
November 8, 2016
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We, the undersigned, object to the University of Connecticut’s plan to demolish nine historic buildings on its Storrs campus known as “Faculty Row.”
These structures are significant character-defining features of the University of Connecticut Historic District and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
We urge UCONN to preserve and adaptively re-use “Faculty Row” by incorporating it into its Master Plan for the South Campus District.
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August 21, 2016
Reaching five hundred signatures feels heavy given how much work is left to do. I am exhausted by the silence from the administration but seeing these names keeps me moving.
Reached 500 supporters
August 19, 2016
Reached 100 supporters
July 14, 2016
285 Comments
These are the only original buildings that I saw, when I went to EO Smith High school in the 70's and went to Girl scout meetings in one of them.. The professors wife kept us involved in scouts until graduation . Please save these homes,
Preserve UConn's rich history, architecture, surrounding green spaces, and original mission as a public university. Faculty Row is a beautiful area of campus and could be used to host visiting writers, professors, artists, alumni, and other groups on campus.
I attended UConn '64-'70 and walked by these homes daily. They added a visual feeling of a neighborhood to what was otherwise a city or institutional look of the campus. A great link to history, these should be preserved and used for another century.
I lived in one of these houses and there was already so much history before me there. It really would be a shame to tear them down rather than re-purposing them. The campus looks so new with so many new buildings would be great to preserve some history on campus.
Class of 1973. The central campus is claustrophobic with all the huge buildings and vanishing grass and small buildings. Leave a little grace for a change. It used to be a nice campus; it's starting to look like Joni Mitchell's nightmare.
I grew up in Storrs and graduated from UConn (class of '81). Old houses like these two remaining ones from a time before mine can be restored and put to good use if there is the political will and financing to do so. Demolishing them would be shortsighted and a travesty.
find somewhere else to build.
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The university officially announced that Faculty Row will be preserved instead of demolished. It has been a long and exhausting fight to protect these buildings but seeing them saved makes all the strain worth it. We should keep an eye on the renovation plans to ensure they follow through on …
November 8, 2016
Final supporters
We, the undersigned, object to the University of Connecticut’s plan to demolish nine historic buildings on its Storrs campus known as “Faculty Row.”
These structures are significant character-defining features of the University of Connecticut Historic District and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
We urge UCONN to preserve and adaptively re-use “Faculty Row” by incorporating it into its Master Plan for the South Campus District.
Updates
August 21, 2016
Reaching five hundred signatures feels heavy given how much work is left to do. I am exhausted by the silence from the administration but seeing these names keeps me moving.
Reached 500 supporters
August 19, 2016
Reached 100 supporters
July 14, 2016
285 Comments
These buildings are an important concrete reminder of the community that the university once was before it became essentially a business--faculty and administrators living close together, within easy reach of students and on terms of social and economic equality.
These are the only original buildings that I saw, when I went to EO Smith High school in the 70's and went to Girl scout meetings in one of them.. The professors wife kept us involved in scouts until graduation . Please save these homes,
Preserve UConn's rich history, architecture, surrounding green spaces, and original mission as a public university. Faculty Row is a beautiful area of campus and could be used to host visiting writers, professors, artists, alumni, and other groups on campus.
I attended UConn '64-'70 and walked by these homes daily. They added a visual feeling of a neighborhood to what was otherwise a city or institutional look of the campus. A great link to history, these should be preserved and used for another century.
I lived in one of these houses and there was already so much history before me there. It really would be a shame to tear them down rather than re-purposing them. The campus looks so new with so many new buildings would be great to preserve some history on campus.
Class of 1973. The central campus is claustrophobic with all the huge buildings and vanishing grass and small buildings. Leave a little grace for a change. It used to be a nice campus; it's starting to look like Joni Mitchell's nightmare.
I grew up in Storrs and graduated from UConn (class of '81). Old houses like these two remaining ones from a time before mine can be restored and put to good use if there is the political will and financing to do so. Demolishing them would be shortsighted and a travesty.
find somewhere else to build.
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These buildings are an important concrete reminder of the community that the university once was before it became essentially a business--faculty and administrators living close together, within easy reach of students and on terms of social and economic equality.