Thursday, 4:30 PM
A moving experience in Cambridge
By Claire Cummings, Globe Correspondent
One after another, three 19th-century houses made a two-block trip down Massachusetts Avenue this morning near the Harvard Law School in Cambridge.
Contractors began pulling the first building into the street at 5 a.m. All three were in place by 9:20 a.m. A few hundred people lined the streets throughout the morning to witness the haul.
The buildings, owned by Harvard University, were being used as office space for the law school. They were moved to new locations on the campus to be transformed into dormitories to eventually house 27 students.
The location they formerly occupied will be filled with a new, 250,000-square-foot academic complex.
MBTA and city crews began reinstalling overhead power lines for buses, traffic signals, and streetlamps immediately after the crowd dispersed. Plans had called for the avenue to remain closed until early Monday morning, but officials said it could reopen sooner.
