[MassHistPres] Local Historic District protection of sites and places

[Marcia Starkey]

I have assumed that “places” and “sites” are best identified by local commissions. One dictionary definition of site is “local position, groundplot” while places are “a special locality”.  

 

Marcia Starkey, Greenfield

   

 

From: masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu [mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu] On Behalf Of David Feigenbaum
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Chapter 40C refers (in the section on its purpose) to "preservation and protection of the distinctive characteristics of buildings and places significant in the history of the commonwealth and its cities and towns or their architecture, and through the maintenance and improvement of settings for such buildings and places."

 

What is a place? I assume it is not a building. Can someone give me an example of a place?

 

Later, in a number of places, Chapter 40C refers to "buildings, structures or sites."

 

What is a site? I assume it is not a buiding or a structure. Can someone give me an example of a site?"

 

David Feigenbaum

unaffiliated

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