[MassHistPres] Police Station renovation

[Dennis De Witt]

About 10 years ago Brookline combined a forgettable 1960's Police  
station (inspired by one of Lou Kahn's unmemorable early housing  
projects) and a mansarded ex-fire station into a new public safety  
building which definitely made a silk purse out of a sows ear as far  
as the police station was concerned.  While it contains the Fire HQ.   
There are no trucks there.

Dennis De Witt
Brookline


On Jan 21, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Kate Matison wrote:

> In 1971 the former two-story Colonial Revival-style Peters High  
> School Annex (1930) was retrofitted as the Southborough Police  
> Station.  The Town is now considering a proposal to build a new  
> police facility, connected to the adjacent Fire Station using new  
> construction. The current plan, if adopted, involves the demolition  
> of the historic Annex building. The Southborough Historical  
> Commission is interested in finding out whether other municipalities  
> have renovated/rehabbed a historic building for adaptive reuse as an  
> up-to-date police facility, with or without an addition of new  
> construction. The Commission is requesting a National Register  
> eligibility opinion from MHC, based on the Southborough Historic  
> Properties Survey (2000), National Register program.
>
> Katherine T. Matison
> Member, Southborough Historical Commission
> Ph:   (508)481-6606
> Cell: (508)259-4305
> email: kate at matison-consulting.com
> blog: http://ktmatison.wordpress.com
>
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