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+ | ======Federal Circle====== | ||
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+ | ===== Design and construction ===== | ||
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+ | Federal Circle was one of two areas (along with Commonwealth Circle) developed to accommodate returning World War Two veterans. | ||
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+ | Built on the area formerly occupied by the R.O.T.C. cavalry riding grounds, the Federal Circle dormitories were three-story concrete frame buildings with full basements and flat roofs, oriented along a north-south axis with apartments located on the east and west sides of a central corridor. Although they are solidly built -- more so than the temporary buildings of Commonwealth Circle -- the buildings betray the haste with which they were designed and constructed to meet the influx of returning veterans. | ||
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+ | The expansion and realignment of Massachusetts Avenue removed the complex’s original vehicular access, and a small parking area located to the west of the buildings was replaced by the larger parking fields to the east. Vegetation surrounding the buildings has historically consisted of deciduous and evergreen trees over mown lawn with no foundation planting. | ||
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+ | ===== Naming of the building ===== | ||
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+ | The structures were named for the Massachusetts counties Berkshire, Hampshire, Middlesex, Plymouth, and Suffolk. | ||
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+ | ==== Source ==== | ||
+ | * From the Massachusetts Historical Commission, UMass Amherst [[http:// | ||
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