[MassHistPres] St. Joseph's Salem, MA

[Dennis De Witt]

In Brookline when the same housing development office of the diocese (POoUA) wanted to convert the St. Aiden's Church site into housing, Brookline's Town Meeting directed its Preservation Commission to study creating a 40c LHD encompassing just the church/rectory/parking lot boundary.  Altho the LHD was never created because the process became more cooperative and less confrontational, that directive from town meeting helped move the project to a design that put market housing in the church -- admittedly something of a facadectomy as the church was completely gutted (altho it looks not too bad from the street side) -- together with separate mixed income housing in town houses and a multi-story building -- and saved a monumental beach tree on the site.

Dennis De Witt


On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Katerina Panagiotakis wrote:

> I was at the last public hearing, but did not know if it was open to people from other cities, like the Kennedy Development project is. (another issue in Salem affecting historic and potential archaeologic resources)
> 
> What was said in the public hearing for St. Josephs, that the building cannot be reused, can not be true.
> Do they mean it cannot be reused to include the amount of housing they want to see on this site?  Which is a poor excuse for not saving the historic building.
> 
> I once worked in two architectural firms in Salem, and worked on drawings to convert an old church in Salem, like St. Josephs into a different use.  The church was off Lafayette Street, and was converted into a school for the Celebral Palsy Foundation.  I can dig up the drawings if needed.
> 
> 
> Panagiotakis, Katerina
> Architectural Design Studio
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> Skype. AikateriniStudio
> www.Aikaterini.com
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> 
> 
> On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:10 AM, cvwtc at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> Despite years of planning and advocacy on the importance of preservation, it's amazing how quickly the powers-that-be return to the urban renewal playbook of the 1950s and 60s.
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>> http://www.salemnews.com/opinion/x180468210/My-View-Demolition-of-St-Joes-represents-return-to-Salems-pre-preservationist-past
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