Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last August, Radcliffe President Matina Horner presented President Derek C. Bok with a plan to restore the water pump--which served the Yard more than 200 years ago--and build a brick garden around the site. But she forgot to check with the Cambridge Historical Commission, which must approve all...
"It was considered inappropiate to the historic character of the Yard, which was designed as an open landscape with only trees and paths," he said yesterday.
The church forms part of an extraordinary architectural ensemble ringing Copley Square in Boston's historic Back Bay. Facing the church across Copley Square is the Boston Public Library, designed by Charles McKim, with a recent extension by Philip Johnson.
On most holidays, Peking's Tiananmen Square is jammed with thousands of residents and visitors who traditionally promenade through the 100-acre open area and photograph one another in front of the surrounding monuments. But on New Year's Day, revelers arriving at the huge square found it virtually blocked...
The Stadium fits into this year's recreationtheme selected by the federal government as amotif for historic designation. Other honorees areBoston's Fenway Park and Chicago's Wrigley Field.