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...underdog of a quite different sort here in Cambridge surprisingly won a round in its bracket this week, defeating a more powerful and bigger opponent. The Swedenborg Chapel was named an historical landmark by the City Council on Tuesday night, thereby protecting it from a Somerville developer's plan to demolish the building and raise a housing development in its place. The Council's decision preserves the outside of the Chapel from being destroyed or blocked from view. The inside is not protected because the Historical Commission does not consider interiors for landmark designation (though the council has requested...
...unusual show of support at the council meeting, a representative from Harvard's community relations department spoke on behalf of the chapel's protection. I say unusual both because Harvard has always been hesitant to limit its own expansion options and because it was about this same time last year that Swedenborg parishioners were fighting the construction of the Knafel Center, which is to house Harvard's Center for International Studies (HCIS) and other programs...
...Historical Commission did not include the annex of the chapel--where the congregation's Sunday school meets--under the landmark designation. The annex, built in the 1960s, is home to the reverend's office...
...Although Harvard supports the land-marking of the exterior of the chapel, Power said the University would not necessarily be in support of a measure allowing the city to designate any building's interior a historical landmark...
...congregation has the right of first refusal; it has a certain amount of time to purchase the property after an offer has been made by an outside source. If the congregation refuses, the University also has the option to buy the chapel at the offered price...