Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"It's a simple, straightforward yet historic message," he said, addressing the largest audience ever to watch a live presidential speech. (In addition to the 300 journalists who crammed the Press Club, an estimated 200 million watched the speech, which was beamed overseas by the U.S. International Communications Agency...
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)--a Harvard Affiliate--and Historic Boston, a historic building preservation fund, are negotiating a deal that would put a stop to hospital plans for demolishing its 90-year-old Resident Physicians House, and instead move the building to a new location.
At a meeting yesterday of the Boston Landmarks Commission (BLC), which is considering granting the building landmark status and thereby preventing its destruction, Stanley M. Smith, manager of Historic Boston's revolving fund, said it is "quite probable" that the fund will lend MGH $100,000 of the estimated amount...
Historic Boston's offer to partially fund the move comes just before the commission postponed--for the second time in two weeks--a vote on whether to give the building special status.
MGH received a $60 million grant to construct a ten-story research lab on the House's present Blossom St. location by April 1. The hospital's plans are being contested by petitioners who want the house preserved for its historic and architectural significance.