New Grad Center Near Jarvis Court Will Bring End to Housing Project

Announcement Wednesday by the Corporation of plans for a $3,000,000 graduate center in Jarvis Court, north of the Law School, spells the end of the veterans housing project that has been located in that area since March, 1946.

Built from Federal Public Housing Administration plans, the prefabricated dwellings will be torn down to make way for seven dormitories and a common hall for graduate students.

Demolition work is slated to start in June, when most of the married students currently living in the Jarvis Court project will have been graduated. The graduate center will probably be completed in 1950.

The eight buildings that will compose the new center will be a far cry from the drab structures that make up the housing project. Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, has prepared preliminary drawings for the center, and his firm, The Architects Collaborative, has been appointed architects for the project.

Student Role

Students themselves played a role in shaping the center's design. Two groups of third-year architecture students made studies of graduate housing last year, and the suggestions of one of the groups provided the basis for Professor Gropius' work.