[MassHistPres] Arlington Town Hall cupola demolition

[Dennis De Witt]

Michael

Foe what it’s worth, some structurally compromised church steeples have been replaced with (sometimes convincing) fiberglass replicas that have cell phone antennas hidden in them.

Dennis De Witt
Brookline (presently in Lisbon)

Postcard

> On Feb 24, 2024, at 3:14 PM, Michael Ruderman via MassHistPres <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu> wrote:
> 
> Arlington has issued an RFP for the demolition of the cupola on its 1913 Robbins Memorial Town Hall, a National Register building located within the town center national historic district. Water infiltration through and around the cupola has ruined the ceiling below and made the hall's formal meeting room unusable.
> 
> At this date there's no plan for replacing the cupola. The town manager has speculated about using "alternative materials", leading local wags to imagine "Barbie's Plastic Fantastic Town Hall Topper" surmounting R. Clipston Sturgis's Classical Revival base.
> 
> Seriously though, has anyone had experience with the replacement of a prominent municipal building's cupola with a facsimile?
>  
> Michael Ruderman
> x-Arlington Historical Commission
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