Word: historicization
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This moment—a time of beginnings, with new deans in the FAS and the GSD, a new undergraduate curriculum, and a new campus emerging across the rive —seems propitious for an ambitious rethinking of the place of arts practice at Harvard. Recent developments in the...
The Cambridge Historical Commission decided last night to study whether a 92-year-old plot of green space at the center of a tense battle between residents and developers should be designated a historic landmark.
City Councillor Henrietta Davis, who was on the council when it first considered making the area a historic landmark, urged the commission to initiate a new study to protect the area.
Two weeks ago, the city blocked work on the site after residents complained that building the proposed 5,000-square-foot home would destroy the neighborhood’s historic identity. A group of residents sued the developer, Stonehouse Holdings, in September.
“I think they made the right decision,” Dennis W. Townley, who lives in Shady Hill Square, said after the meeting. “I think it’s clear to the commission that Shady Hill should be made a historic area.?...