Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chapel's designation as a protected landmark effectively ends a Somerville real estate developer's plans to demolish the building...
...Swedenborg Chapel escaped the wrecking ball at last night's Cambridge City Council meeting as the council voted unanimously to make the chapel a historical landmark upon the recommendation of the Cambridge Historical Commission...
...This is not the last of the threats to the Swedenborg however. The historical landmark designation does not, for instance, protect the interior of the church...
...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...
...literary associations. Young readers will recall that the long spire of the Empire State Building, for example, was the last stop for Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. Other readers will enjoy deconstructing the great skyscraper, a la David Macaulay's Unbuilding, which tells of the landmark's fictional dismantling by Saudi Prince Ali Smith for transport to the Arabian desert and reassembly as the headquarters of his petroleum empire...