[MassHistPres] church in a local historic district

[Dennis De Witt]

Brookline’s Pill Hill LHD has a Latvian Lutheran Church (originally Swedeborgian) and a row house with a neon “jesus Saves” cross on it that is designated as a church.

When St. Aiden’s Church, which the Kennedys attended, was closed and threatened with demolition, Town Meeting directed the Preservation Commission to initiate a study report for it as a potential single property LHD, over the vociferous objections of the diocese.  Eventually the town and the diocese, both of which have strong traditions of creating affordable housing, cosponsored a friendly 40B with a very high percentage of permanently affordable housing, with the site retaining two huge copper beaches and the church, albeit as a facadectomy containing the site’s only high end units.

Dennis De Witt


On Mar 6, 2014, at 4:25 PM, Olivia M <liv1946 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Local Historic Districts
> I'm looking for some numbers: do you have a church in your LHD?
> If so, please send your town and name of your LHD to us.
> We are working on a Polish Heritage Local Historic District that includes a closed Catholic Church, Mater Delorosa and can use some other LHD as examples for our City Council.
> Thanks for your time,
> Olivia Mausel, Co-Chair
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