Boston University - Pardee School of Global studies | 250 Bay State Road | Fenway

As long as they keep the historic courtyard building next year. That thing is so lovely.
 
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That building is set to make way for an expanded mall / lawn area in the longer range IMP. The School of Social Work would need to be relocated first which I suspect may end up in the buildings vacated by the existing Pardee School who are spread out among Bay State Rd buildings.
 
If this is where I think it is, the existing building is a very cute brownstone, but crap on the inside. BU is probably itching to demo it.
 
It's being placed in a spot which is currently surface parking, not a brownstone:

"Project Description
Trustees of Boston University (the “Proponent”) proposes to transform an existing 56,900-square foot (“sf”) surface parking lot into the Fredrick S. Pardee School of Global Studies (the “Pardee School”), a 70,000 sf gross floor area (”GFA”), 186-foot (“ft”) tall academic building with approximately 50,800 sf of open space (the “Project”) at 250 Bay State Road on the Boston University (“BU” or the “University”) Charles River Campus (the “Project Site”)."
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Is there an actual brownstone in that area?
 
Well, this is an architectural forum, so it must be said. Our equivalent to the brownstone is the brick bow front, like on Bay State Road.
 
Scott said:
Is there an actual brownstone in that area?
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Center of this image is the building I mistook for the site. This building is going to be on the adjacent parking lot.

What is interesting is the brownstones in the background actually match the one in the foreground. And they have party walls. Theres a mysterious gap between them, where the parking lot is.
 

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Longfellow said:
Center of this image is the building I mistook for the site. This building is going to be on the adjacent parking lot.

What is interesting is the brownstones in the background actually match the one in the foreground. And they have party walls. Theres a mysterious gap between them, where the parking lot is.
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I went through the Bromley atlases for Bay State Road -- it looks like the intervening lots were laid out but never developed. The 10 defined lots around 250 Bay State were owned by Lillior Nutting, but undeveloped (existing row houses were there on both sides), until they were owned by the BU Trustees, some time between 1917 and 1928.
 
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