[MassHistPres] Local Historic District protection of sites and places

[Judy Markland]

I suspect that in trying to distinguish between "place" and "site" you may be parsing the legislature's definitions more finely than was intended.   

A site can be the place where something important happened (eg, where the Pilgrims first stepped ashore, where a treaty was signed, where Marconi's first cable was laid, etc) or where something important remains  today (cemetery, historic garden, archeological remains, town green).  Each of these is also a place too, of course.

An historic place can also contain more than one historic site - as with most historic districts or neighborhoods.

Judy Markland


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> On Aug 2, 2014, at 8:47 PM, David Feigenbaum <david.feigenbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?"
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