Save UCONN's Faculty Row

Faculty Row is a living history on campus, why would you want to tear these down only to install yet another concrete edifice? I can only hope you change your mind.

These houses not only contribute to the history of the university, but to the architectural staple of a time lost. While the campus is being flooded with large scale construction projects to create more giant brick, glass and steel monstrosities, these houses are a warm reminder of architecture and culture. These houses once served a purpose on campus and have been ready to continue doing so. It is a real shame that the University allowed them to go unused and unkempt for so long that they've reached the point where it will cost "millions" to fix them up. They deserve better.

I lived on Gilbert Road for two years during my undergrad years at UConn. These homes are beautiful and part of the history of the university. The fact that UConn has chosen to depict them as abandoned and neglected is hurtful to the student organizations who spent years caring from them and calling them home. Please save faculty row.

Please save the historic houses on campus.

Few peaceful, homey places still exist on campus....incoming faculty need housing.

Save Greek Row Longtime resident area and the campus will not be the same if those buildings are torn down! Part of my history as a university student and a participant in the Greek life back then Other universities in the area (ECSU) have refurbished such buildings for use by administration Can't we do the same at UConn?

Please preserve beauty and history.

Please save these buildings for future generations.

7/31/2016 As an alumna, I beg you NOT to demolish these vernacular-style historic buildings. Only they, Holcomb Hall and a very few other buildings had aesthetic appeal when I was a freshman at UCONN in 1965 in perhaps the second year of THE HONORS PROGRAM. I appreciated the English Department, and especially poet Professor Jim Scully nonconformist Professor Charles Baer, and kind famous Rex Warner, visiting to give a graduate seminar, as well as the first two-semester year abroad in France Program. It was my first experience, once I was able to get off the rather well-laid out but, because of the lack of good architecture, pedestrian, somewhat depressing campus, of many beautiful rural spots like Diana's Pool, Merrow, a rentable cabin in the woods off the main road just past the campus, Houghton Hill, Chaplin, Gurleyville, Coventry and many others. The Campus Restaurant, grungy as it was, was a perfect haven; now that it's gone, Starbucks, the Chinese restaurants and the Co-op store, the like of which WE had never seen, are good, but what stands in for the Campus Restaurant? I felt like a ghost going to Starbucks a few years ago. I LIKE Starbucks, or "Four Bucks," well enough, but I didn't see groups of students huddled around talking in there. UCONN seems to have come a long way up in prestige and presumably offers improved studies and programs. But, college administrators, don't, please don't, negate what gives "character,' history, charm and opportunity for informal learning in the University!!! DON'T "DUMB DOWN' THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT ANY WORSE THAN IT IS. I have a true fondness for UCONN, born of the layers of good experiences, good friends, and often painful growing-up which are the substance of my memories; do everything you can to make the University, buildings, grounds, informal social places as well as educational opportunities as imaginatively multi-dimensional as is possible and as is quite necessary for an excellent university. Be determined, co

Apply for the grants and restore these historical landmarks!

Please save these historic structures. They hold many fond memories.

I grew up in Storrs. walking across campus those houses still mean a lot! the history of the university!

Please save the homes if at all possible. They are beautiful and historic icons that I looked forward to seeing upon my return. UCONN is a happy place for me, and the homes are a huge part of that.

One used to be my sorority house.

As a UConn graduate, I have fond memories of "Faculty Row". It is a beautiful part of the campus. Those historic buildings should not be torn down.

Please save these buildings. I am a proud graduate class of 1986 !

All development is not good. They should find alternative uses for these properties. This is part of the history and improves the esthetic appeal of campus.

Please save these buildings.

These brown houses are a precious part of UConn History.

I loved walking down that road when a student at UConn. Those homes gave a humanness to the campus that was lacking in all the sterile structures.