[MassHistPres] Symposium - "Mightier Than A Wrecking Ball" How Ada Louise Huxtable Saved Salem

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Ironic that the symposium is being held at a museum that demolished the Salem Armory's surviving facade.  The day the wrecking ball showed up was the day I gave up visiting the museum.  


Matt Pujo
No Country for Old Buildings



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From: Ed Nilsson <enilsson at nsaarch.com>
To: masshistpres <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
Sent: Fri, Sep 4, 2015 3:13 pm
Subject: [MassHistPres] Symposium - "Mightier Than A Wrecking Ball" How Ada Louise Huxtable Saved Salem


Historic Salem, Inc. has organized a September 25 symposium to commemorate the
50th anniversary of the act of journalism that stopped the wrecking ball. A
potent New York Times article by renowned architecture critic Ada Louise
Huxtable derailed plans to destroy much of downtown Salem. The symposium, called
“Mightier than a Wrecking Ball,” will gather prominent architecture critics,
historians and other experts to consider what almost happened in Salem and how
the issues at play in 1965 remain critical today.

Christopher Hawthorne, The
Los Angeles Times architecture critic, will give the keynote address. Historic
New England President and CEO Carl Nold will moderate a scholarly panel
featuring Eric Gibson, leisure and arts editor of The Wall Street Journal;
Elizabeth Padjen, founder and former editor of Architecture Boston; and Donovan
Rypkema, a development consultant and authority on the economics of
preservation.

“Mightier than a Wrecking Ball” will be held Friday, September
25, 2015, 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Morse Auditorium in the Peabody Essex
Museum. Tickets are $45 and may be purchased on the PEM website at
PEM.org/calendar or by calling 877-PEM-TIXX.



Edward O. Nilsson, AIA,
Principal
Nilsson + Siden Associates, Inc., Architects & Planners
262 Essex
Street, Salem, MA 01970
Web site: www.nsaarch.com
Tel 978.741.5777   Fax
978.741.0557  Cell 978.578.0188
Email:
enilsson at nsaarch.com
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