Save UCONN's Faculty Row

UConn is trashing its history and appeal by destroying these beautiful buildings. Please find something else to destroy this time.

Please save these buildings.

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.

The plans to demolish are completely unacceptable and unconscionable. Historic structures are the bedrock of what makes a community interesting, vibrant, and rooted.

Transparency and integrity with careful decision making is VERY important. This decision does not make sense. Please find a way to preserve Faculty Row as was intended in the decision to protect the buildings when the designation to preserve was made.

These are historical buildings and should be saved.

BA grad 1977 & MPA grad 1979, Dan Malloy and his thugs, sick folks, no sense of UCONN pride and historical value. Please retain and preserve the buildings on Faculty Row.

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,

Class of 1976

Having completed my undergraduate study at UCONN, I am attached to the campus that I called home between Fall 2010 and Spring 2014. I studied History and French. The former taught me to appreciate the history around us , be it in its abundant or meager presence. The latter, thanks to an obligatory semester in centuries-old Paris, taught me that the young United States must preserve whatever history it can. Our universities are part of American history. Faculty Row is part of the history of the University of Connecticut. Faculty Row ought to be preserved and maintained as the Storrs campus continues its evolution. We must keep these visible and historic sights as part of the face of UCONN due to the power of nostalgia, and the need to feel within one's element. What do I mean by this? In Baudelaire's poem 'Le Cygne' (The Swan), the swan is used to the old Paris (before the mid-19th century renovation). Now in Hausmann's Paris (more similar to the Paris of today), the swan is out of place. What a swan is doing in Paris and not the ponds of Versailles is beyond me, but the point remains: stripping away the past has put a living being outside of its element. As an alumni of UCONN, whenever I get the opportunity to come back to the campus, I still feel at home because I recognize the campus. If in a few years, if not decades, I should come back to a campus mostly unrecognizable; even if I knew I was meeting fellow Huskies in Storrs, I would feel like an outsider, as if I no longer belonged. I could pull out my student ID before the controversial mascot change; but that would be the only tangible window I would have to look into the 'glory days'. Nostalgia is a powerful force among we alumni. It is also vital that all 'present' students have an idea as to how far the university has come since 1881. As the old saying goes: "You can't know where you're going, until you know where you've been." With the utmost sincerity, Xavier Jones (B.A.) University of Connect

These buildings need to be kept and incorporated into UConn, not torn down! What has happened to this school? You used to respect the community, the historic beauty and history of the school and the area. How have you gone so far from truly educating to destroying and dollars above all else?

Preservation of history is essential to knowing where we came from.

My first memory of Storrs is living on Gilbert Road in what later became the women's center. That house burned down . We actually have already lost at least 5 residences in the name of expansion. Preserve what is left as an important portion of the "Land Grant" school Uconn has always been.

Hang on and preserve,before it's all gone.. Enough of the out build! The university has turned into a city,not the beautiful, peaceful University it once was...

Spent over a decade at UCONN, passing by Faculty Row on an almost daily basis. The heritage represented by the buildings provided much inspiration for an ongoing professional interest in state and local history.

Pls keep the beauty and charm that's left of Storrs,Ct..there are tons of stories to tell your,our grandkids etc...

I graduated from UCONN in 1982, please don't destroy the Faculty Row houses, they're an integral part of campus that needs to be kept.

Worth saving. Always a lovely part of the campus. Each time I return to UCONN. I realize how sterile and generic and boring it's becoming architecturally.

Keep the historical character of UConn alive.

Please save these beautiful buildings, they are part of the campus history!