Peabody Terrace facts for kids
Peabody Terrace, on the north bank of the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a Harvard University housing complex primarily serving graduate students, particularly married students and their families. Designed in the brutalist style and constructed in 1964, its three-story perimeter grows to five and seven stories within, with three interior 22-story towers.
It has been described as "beloved by architects and disliked by almost everyone else."
Description
Peabody Terrace was completed in 1965 at a cost of $8.5 million. On 5.9 acres (2.4 ha), the 650,000-square foot (60,000 m2) complex consists of some 500 apartments (a mixture of "efficiencies" and one-, two-, and three-bedroom units—all with 7-foot 6-inch, or 2.3 m, ceilings) plus playgrounds, nurseries, roof terraces, laundromats/laundry rooms, meetings/seminar rooms, study rooms, and a parking garage. In order to maximize usable floor space and speed vertical transportation, the towers' elevators stop on every third floor only. The Harvard-affiliated Peabody Terrace Children's Center is housed on the complex grounds.
See also
In Spanish: Peabody Terrace para niños
