Save UCONN's Faculty Row

Preserve history! Include these buildings as learning experiences by creating programs within various schools - architecture, history and preservation, landscape architecture, engineering, etc. Use them for classroom and meeting space. Be creative!

Spent 1969-1971 working my work study job with Eileen Palumbo, Elsie Fetterman and staff at the Cooperative Extension Office working consumer affairs issues including informing UCONN off campus student about eligibility for USDa Food Stamp program-wahoo blew up and we made the front page if the Hartford Currant of course that effort ended immediately. Assisted Dr Fetterman with a Spanish language consumer newsletter published weekly in the New Britain Herald. Those bldgs were a great place to think, grow and contribute!

Please preserve, adaptively reuse and sustain our history -- do not destroy Faculty Row. Be innovative, visionary and do the right thing. You have the perfect student/staff resources and know-how to make this a brilliantly successful restoration and education model! I strongly encourage you to collaborate with your UCONN School of Architecture staff and students on this exciting project. What a perfect opportunity for hands-on learning and experience building for your students. Fold in a grant-writing and fund-raising component with your UCONN School of Business students and you can help to fund this worthy endeavor and hit a home run!

My grandfather, Louis B. Tenney, who is on the original Uconn films, designed many buildings etc., on campus, including the "Tenney Shack". Faculty row MUST be saved as historical places on campus.

As an alumni of Oxford University in the UK, where I live, the experience of living in, attending courses in and visit administrative facilities that have historic significance adds a special dimension to ones pride in the tertiary educational facility one attends. History is made over time so please do not demolish these 9 historic buildings but rather spend funds on preserving them for generations to come.

We are visitors from London UK and know the importance of preserving the heritage and accompanying history of given architectural structures. The cost of bringing these buildings back as functional units on the campus of the University of Connecticut is a small price to pay in preserving the unique structures for generations to come.

I am a CT resident and feel UCONN holding a historic preservation conference is not enough to "mitigate" the demolition of buildings on the Historic Register. We don't need lip service and spin; the buildings should be saved. Appears UCONN is guilty of demolition by neglect from their description of the buildings not being up to code and in poor shape; perhaps they should be prosecuted for the same.

Please re-purpose the buildings instead of tearing down history.

Class of '86

What about leveraging the historic and architectural qualities of these historic buildings to bring a new funding source to the school?

Historic buildings. . Renovation is needed

I spent a day last week at UCONN with a young friend named Sam who will be enrolling as a freshman in the fall. Between meetings in the engineering and physics buildings we went for a long walk. It was a hot, sunny day. Faculty Row was an oasis. It was clear all sorts of people had chosen the shade and the quiet over other ways to walk across campus. What a beautiful spot! When I told Sam about the plan to tear it all down he was completely taken aback. We spent the walk back to Enguneering 2 talking about the sad compulsion to demolish such places in an effort to "make better use" of the space. UCONN's campus has been transformed in the 30 years since I was in college. It looks better all the time. But there are limits. Those houses on faculty row, the trees and the sidewalks, are something special. They are what the new town center across the street is trying to be. Don't tear them down. Any of them would make a beautiful admissions office or alumni office, a wonderful place to study English literature or art history, a really unique place to live. Goodness knows, Storrs isn't lacking open space for expansion outward if that's what the University needs. Take good care of those old buildings, those few quiet places on an otherwise bustling campus that encourage students and faculty and visitors to slow down and sit and think. It's what colleges and universities are all about.

Please preserve these buildings

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 am so disappointed in UConn's myopic plan and destruction of the historic campus.

This is what you get from Cruickshank and Herbst. Destroy the campus and spend money the state doesn't have.

I would expect better from UConn than to knowingly demolish buildings on the National Register.

Demolition by neglect--a UConn tradition.

uconn sucks

lived in DZ house 1983-1985.....pink room memories...was an oasis in middle of huge UConn