[MassHistPres] Spray painting murals on historic buildings

[Gretchen Schuler]

Rather than using a stick is it possible to educate the spray painters
about the harm that it does to historic brick buildings, particularly if
you want to take it off. Perhaps the Historical Commission could gather
some references to care of brick buildings and formally ask to be on the
agenda of selectmen for public buildings and some articles in paper for
private property owners pointing out as stewards of local history you
believe that they would want to know the negative aspects of spray painting
brick buildings - on the other hand many sides of brick buildings were used
to advertise the business within.  Those may be historically significant???
A dilemma for sure. All easy for me to say as we have only a handful of
brick buildings in wayland and no commercial structures in brick.
Gretchen Schuler
Wayland Historic District

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 8:59 AM Judith Lund <judithnlund at gmail.com> wrote:

> As mural painting on historic brick buildings is becoming common, I am
> wondering what other Historical Commissions have said about this.  There
> are murals all over historical buildings in New Bedford, and now Dartmouth
> wants to follow suit.  Our Demo Delay bylaw gives us some control over what
> happens to more than 25% of the exterior of buildings more than 75 years
> old.  That would seem to me to include murals.
>
> Judy Lund
> Chair, Dartmouth Historical Commisson
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