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Concept drawing for first WHOI building, eventually named Bigelow Building.

Concept drawing for first WHOI building, eventually named Bigelow Building.
Concept drawing for first WHOI building, eventually named Bigelow Building.
Concept drawing for first WHOI building, eventually named Bigelow Building.
Concept drawing for first WHOI building, eventually named Bigelow Building.
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Coolidge, Chepley, Bulfinch and Abbott
Concept drawing for first WHOI building, eventually named Bigelow Building.
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03/01/1930
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A brick building, 135 feet long and 50 feet wide, of four stories and a basement, containing laboratories and research rooms to accomodate 50, chart and reading rooms, refrigerating system and offices was built and occupied by summer 1931.
Caption from Down to the Sea for Science, pg. 22:
By March 1930, Boston architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott presented this concept for the first WHOI building. Construction began in July and the building was ready for occupancy the following summer.
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Named for WHOI's first director, the Bigelow Lab on Water St. in Woods Hole, Mass., was WHOI's first building. Plans called for "a brick building, 135 feet long and 50 feet wide, of four stories and a basement, containing laboratories and research rooms to accommodate 50, chart and reading rooms, refrigerating system and offices." In March 1930, Boston architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott presented this concept drawing. Construction began in July and the building was ready for occupancy the following summer.
Illustration by Coolidge, Chepley, Bulfinch and Abbott
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Presented to WHOI in March 1930.
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