Word: landmarking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. PHILIP STRAX, 90, impassioned radiologist who ran free clinics for women and championed early detection of breast cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Stricken by the loss of his first wife to the disease, Strax helped lead a landmark 62,000-woman-strong study in the 1960s that found mammography could reduce fatalities by a third...
...Ralph Sr. and Sunny Wilson House. Built in 1959 by Wilson-Art's founder to show just how versatile his product could be, the house put pink and aqua laminate where none had gone before. Open to the public, this homage to plastic has just become a National Landmark...
...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...
...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...
...could potentially discourage adaptive reuse of historic properties," Power said. "Many of Harvard's properties are historic. If the landmark were to include the interior space, it might make it more difficult for Harvard to support land-marking in the future...