E.T.S. Relocates Historic Building

The Episcopal Theological School has transplanted a century old house in order to clear land for a $1.5 million library and classroom building.

Ground will be broken today for Sherrill Hall, a four-story structure to be built at the corner of Mason St. and Phillips Pl., opposite Radcliffe Yard.

The old building, called Batten House, has been located on this corner since shortly before the Civil War. Officials of the school originally planned to destroy it, but changed their plans at the request of the Cambridge Historical Society.

The site was chosen to enable the new structure to "stand at the Mason St. edge of the campus symbolically facing the world outside," according to Henry M. Shires, professor of the New Testament.

Shires added that the new building, scheduled for completion in the fall of 1966, will be "the academic center for the life of the whole school."