Preservation Massachusetts was quoted in an article about a previously listed Most Endangered Historic Resource:

Battle of the barn: How professor Joe Larson led the charge to get UMass to do right by its historic buildings

By Margot Cleary | Hampshire Life | Feb. 19, 2010

At first glance, it seemed barely worth fighting for.

The old cow barn on the western edge of the University of Massachusetts campus, just across from the Mullins Center, wasn’t much to look at. It had a stucco exterior covered in scraggly vines, and a slightly seedy vibe. It hadn’t been used as a barn in years, and the prospects for remodeling it for some other purpose were just about zero.

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