Dunster reimagined
Plans for Dunster House — the first undergraduate residence to undergo full House renewal — reveal significantly expanded social and program spaces and new horizontal corridors that will complement the traditional vertical entryways. According to administrators helping to guide the project, the updates will help transform the buildings to better support the living and learning needs of today’s students, while preserving the historic character of the neo-Georgian river House. Work will begin in June, immediately following Commencement. Dunster’s renewal follows two “test projects” — Stone Hall (the neo-Georgian portion of Quincy House formerly known as Old Quincy), which reopened to students last summer, and Leverett House’s McKinlock Hall, whose upgrade is set to be unveiled this summer. It was announced in the fall that Winthrop House is scheduled to be the next undergraduate residence to be renewed after Dunster. The plans for Dunster reimagine the earliest of Harvard’s undergraduate river Houses. New...