User:MaynardClark/Charlesbank
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The Charlesbank Cooperative Corporation is a cooperatively-owned corporation which houses in its 24-story high-rise residence about 300 persons in 276 habitable units. The building was erected from 1960-1963 and first opened in late 1963 for residents, while construction continued on the building. The completion of occupancy was in 1964, which is marked as the building's official opening date. The corporation is administered by a democratically-elected Board, which delegates management of the building to a contracted management company, Maloney Properties of Wellesley. It is one of three residential high-rise buildings in the triangular area of Mission Hill to the east of the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, where Harvard teaching hospitals, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine are located. Charlesbank is situated in the narrow, northerly tip, across the street from MassArt's Smith Hall student residence. CityView at Longwood, site of Mission Fitness Boston's 24/7 health club, is at 75 St. Alphonsus Street, and The Longwood apartments, which also houses a gym ("state-of-the-art fitness center") and the Mission Hill branch of the US Post Office, is at 1575 Tremont Street in Brigham Circle. Charlesbank's large water-seeking willow tree reputedly has roots reaching under Huntington Avenue and the Huntington Avenue Green Line E-train route and into the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, where Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine is located.
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