[MassHistPres] MassHistPres Digest, Vol 64, Issue 16 - Stained Glass

Tue Jun 21 14:30:23 EDT 2011

Also Roberto Rosa at Serpentino Stained Glass in Needham - (781) 449-2074

website: http://serpentinostainedglass.com/

Judy Neiswander

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM, <masshistpres-request at cs.umb.edu> wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:43:53 -0400
> From: Christine Beard <christinebeard at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] MassHistPres Digest, Vol 64, Issue 15
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> Lyn Hovey (Lyn Hovey Studio, Inc.) from Norton is fantastic. His website
> is:
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> www.lynhoveystudio.com
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> email is:
> officemgr at lynhoveystudio.com
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> Chris
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> TREMONT PRESERVATION SERVICES
> 21 MARKET STREET
> IPSWICH, MA 01938
> 978-356-0322
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> On Jun 21, 2011, at 8:59 AM, masshistpres-request at cs.umb.edu wrote:
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> >   1. Repairing stain glass windows (Dcolebslade at aol.com)
> >   2. Brookline's 6th LHD (Dennis De Witt)
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> > Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:15:40 EDT
> > From: Dcolebslade at aol.com
> > Subject: [MassHistPres] Repairing stain glass windows
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> > We are looking for someone not too far away that might come and take a
> look
> > at the stain glass windows in a local church for repair.
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> > Thank you.
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> > Betty Slade
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> > From: Dennis De Witt <djd184 at verizon.net>
> > Subject: [MassHistPres] Brookline's 6th LHD
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> > As Chris has just noted, Brookline established its 6th LHD at Spring Town
> Meeting.
> >
> > Sounds easier in that brief description than in reality, as the maps
> below show.
> >
> > It started with an early September stay on a non-NR house (across the
> street from an NRD) which meant that there was a 12 month delay.  Had it
> been on the NR, there would have been an 18 month delay in Brookline.  Every
> Brookline LHD has started with actual or threatened demolitions.
> >
> > Although a neighboring NRD partly overlaps this LHD, most of the area in
> the approved LHD, and virtually all of the area originally considered, was
> not in an NRD.  So there was not that underlying sense of definition nor
> documentation.  To meet the tight schedule to get to Spring Town Meeting,
> the Preservation Commission required that the neighborhood hire a
> preservation consultant to write the study report.  (That had been true of
> two prior LHD proposals.)  In addition, there was no operating neighborhood
> association, although the part of the area that did eventually become the
> LHD had a history of organizing in response to institutional conversions of
> existing large houses.  (This area is very close to the Longwood medical
> area.)
> >
> > The idea of an LHD first arose in an October neighborhood meeting -- and,
> as usual, all alternatives, especially zoning, were discussed first.  A
> couple of participants with some preservation history saw some adjacent
> issues/opportunities and roughed out an ideal potential boundary based
> primarily on architectural and urbanistic considerations.
> >
> > The upper map drawn in November included two especially appealing streets
> of Victorian houses and an Upjohn church along its western side (the
> farthest from the demo case property), and correctly tried not to draw
> boundaries down the centers of streets where possible.  On that map NR
> properties have a yellow lot color and two abutting adjacent NRD are
> outlined in red.
> >
> > The middle map is after the first round of reality testing through a)
> neighborhood Q&A meetings that including representatives of the Preservation
> Commission and b) the Brookline LHD process which requires that the
> neighborhood get owners to sign a petition.  But this map preceded any of
> the required formal public hearings and presentations. (The demo case
> property is the center of the three upper blue ones.)
> >
> > The last map is what was voted by Town Meeting after one big cut at the
> Preservation Commission and a smaller one at the Advisory Committee.
> >
> > Brookline's Town Meeting likes to see 80% support.  That part of the area
> which became the LHD had 85% support.  The remainder had about 50% giving
> the total for the middle map about 65%
> >
> > One misjudged issue was inclusion of a large athletic field belonging to
> a Boston institution where some work done recently had gotten neighbors
> worked up -- but apparently not THAT worked up.
> >
> > The other was the two parallel western streets (N is up) which have
> always seemed natural LHD material -- except not sufficiently so to a number
> of their owners.  With the exception of one individual, there wasn't
> especially strong opposition so much as disinterest -- including on the part
> of some people who are more likely to be focused on social and Green issues.
>  There was also talk about Neighborhood Conservation District alternatives,
> which became a major red herring.  (In this situation an adjacent NCD
> probably won't ever happen but the fact that the idea was out there, being
> given credibility in some preservation contexts, contributed to the loss of
> the larger boundary.)
> >
> > In the end, after all the trimming, the LHD passed without significant
> opposition at the Advisory Committee, the Board of Selectmen, and Town
> Meeting.
> >
> > However, the race not over yet.  The AG has and takes 90 days to review
> any warrant article -- even tho this is no different than the five previous
> Brookline LHD articles.  That leaves only six days in September to post the
> by-law and get the map filed in the registry of deeds before the demo delay
> runs out!
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> > Dennis De Witt
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> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:53:41 -0400
> From: "Marcia Starkey" <mdstarkey at crocker.com>
> Subject: [MassHistPres] state-wide coalition of HP commissions
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> Hello,
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> The discussion of a Massachusetts organization representing local
> preservation commissions has described earlier experience. I think it's
> worth noting that the direction today is to regard
> conservation/preservation
> as a multi-faceted concept recognizing that historic places are an
> important
> part of a sustainable community.  In some places funding is also reflecting
> that view, and so are municipal plans.  The Trustees of Reservations has
> worked from this principle for many years.
>
>
>
> Is there interest in that approach and the idea that we should discuss
> co-operation with that kind of organization or a coalition?
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>
>
> Marcia Starkey
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> Greenfield Historical Commission
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Judy Neiswander
Advocacy Coordinator
Boston Preservation Alliance
www.bostonpreservation.org

Old City Hall

45 School Street

Boston, MA  02108

ph: (617) 367-2458

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