l8 MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 



also that the laboratory dormitories were not equipped for other 

 seasons than the summer operated to prevent any who might wish 

 to use the facilities of the laboratories and library at other seasons 

 from doing so. Family accommodations with reasonable sanitary 

 conveniences were conspicuously lacking. In short, the future 

 development of the Laboratory was definitely circumscribed by 

 these conditions. 



This matter was accordingly presented to the General Educa- 

 tion Board in the autumn of 1925 with a statement of estimated 

 needs ; their interest was immediately aroused. The architects of 

 the Laboratory, Messrs. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott 

 prepared attractive preliminary plans as a basis for discussion, and 

 these were presented to the General Education Board in April, 



1926. The plans provided for two buildings, one intended pri- 

 marily for family accommodations with apartments, the other for 

 individual accommodations of dormitory type. Both buildings 

 were planned of fire-proof construction, with complete steam 

 heating equipment in the apartment house and provisions for fu- 

 ture installation of such equipment in the dormitory. On May 

 27th, 1926, after careful consideration, the Members and Trustees 

 of the General Education Board authorized its executive officers 

 in their discretion to commit the Board to an appropriation to the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory of a sum not to exceed $250,000 

 for the construction and equipment of these buildings. 



Final detailed plans and specifications were then prepared, bids 

 secured from several contractors in each trade concerned, contracts 

 let and construction begun early in September. 



It is expected that these buildings will be ready for use in June, 



1927. Both buildings are in the block next to the laboratories, the 

 apartment house opposite the old lecture hall and the dormitory on 

 the corner diagonally opposite facing the Eel Pond. The dormi- 

 tory is estimated to accommodate 102 persons, the apartment house 

 about 56, and other buildings used for housing about 132, including 

 employees, a total of about 290 persons. Each of the new build- 

 ings, includes a commodious commons room, with fire place, for so- 

 cial purposes. Families of Laboratory workers own 58 houses in 

 Woods Hole, of which 19 are on the Gansett tract. There remain 

 but few lots in the Gansett tract, but the large Devil's Lane tract 



