34F -- seems totally superfluous and unnecessary -- when they started to plan for a new City Hall circa 1880 the population was 52,669 and rapidly heading up
by the time the construction was complete circa 1890 it had increased to 70,028
In the next few decades the population would grow to about double that of 1880
reaching 109,694 by the 1920 Census
Somewhere between then and the immediate post WW II peak population of 120,740 by the 1950 Census they built an annex to house the expanded needs of the government
Then the population started a slow decline bottoming out at 95,322 by the 1980 Census
Since then the population has slowly climbed back to about 109,694 where it was both in 1960 and 1920
Meanwhile office automation technologies such as: computers, wired and wireless networks, databases, search tools, spreadsheets, word processors, automated phone answering, text to speech and speech recognition as well as the World Wide Web and wireless communications [all due in part to work done in Cambridge] has revolutionized the provision of services to commercial and governmental 'customers"
Most private sector business employ far fewer clerks and typists than circa 1950 -- most central offices and corporate HQ's [e.g. GE] are leaner and much more efficient -- But apparently not Cambridge -- they need more space for their legions of typists and people using adding machines
Or they just have an "Edifus Rex Complex"
