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...commission postponed for two weeks a final ruling on the landmark status of the Physicians' House, located on Blossom St. in MGH's Boston complex...
Roger Snow, a Beacon Hill resident who organized a petition requesting that the commission grant the landmark status and thereby prevent the demolition or alteration of the building's exterior, said yesterday that the house--currently used for MGH offices--is of both architectural and historic significance, but that its architect, Carl Fehmer, "hasn't gotten much recognition" for several buildings he designed in downtown Boston...
Herbert P. Gleason '50, the attorney representing MGH, said that "the house is really not of landmark importance." A study done by the hospital found that the house is "simply not notable," Gleason added...
Snow said landmark status is difficult to get, as six of the nine members on the commission must vote in favor of the special designation in order for it to pass. But he added that he is "cautiously optimistic...
...devoted band of a million or so fans. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun is one. Says he, urging a dose of Home Companion for the power brokers: "Washington, I suspect, could use a good bit of Lake Wobegon." Like Brigadoon or Camelot-Lake Wobegon has become a symbolic landmark, existing only on the map of the imagination. "Not everything that is real is on paper," says Keillor. "And if everything that is on paper were real, this would be a sorry world to live...