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Harvard Club Installs Pizza Oven

Posted by Adam Kuban, November 4, 2003 at 10:55 AM

A Harvard education has many perks. Not only is a degree from the prestigious school a ticket to power, money, and the good life, but if you live in New York City, you get a world-class club with "a library, a reading room, a gallery of art, and such other appurtenances and belongings as are usual in clubs and club houses."

With the expansion of the Harvard Club's 44th Street headquarters, "such other appurtenances" now include international rules squash courts and, of more interest to Slice, a pizza oven.

The New York Times reports:

The 1894 clubhouse, which had major additions in 1905, 1915 and 1947, had an out-of-the way women's restroom in the basement and a mechanical lift for handicapped access to the building that required an operator with a key.

"The program for the original building didn't anticipate all of the club's present uses," said Rosamaria Colina, chairwoman of the club's art and architecture committee. The project also covered some renovations, including a modern kitchen with a pizza oven and a bar with wood paneling (the old one had concrete block � painted crimson).

So hey: Are any of you readers Harvard alumni who would be willing to get us in for a taste? If so, a couple of us work just one block away from the club and we could meet you there in a (crimson) flash.

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