College Acts On Site For Tenth House

The University is attempting to advance the construction date of the 10th House by devising a new site plan for House.

Harvard had hoped to build the House on a plot of land behind Dunster House, but has been unable to make the necessary purchases to unify the site. Thus frustrated, the University has now asked the architects for the House to investigate an alternate location.

L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vicepresident, said yesterday that a report the architects, the Boston firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbot, is expected in several weeks. Shepley-Bulfinch is the same firm that designed Leverett Towers and the new section of Quincy House.

Growing Impatient

Wiggins said that the University has stil not abandoned hopes of using its choice site. The decision to have the investigate an alternate, however, is believed to reflect the growing impatience of University officials to building.

The Construction of the House has delayed for years. In the early '60's, the University attempted to acquire the Bennett St. MBTA subway yards for the House. When this purchase proved impossible, Harvard turned to the Dunster House site.

University's inability to consolidate this area has been the main reason for the present delay in building.

Individual Bedrooms

Architects have already evaluated a report from the Faculty Committee on the 10th House. Preliminary plans for the House indicate that each student will have his own bedroom.

House is also expected to be a high-rise structure, but the architects make a final design until the University chooses a definite site.

It will probably be six to nine months after the site is chosen before the architect arrives at final plans. Thus, construction of the House could not possibly begin before the spring of 1967.