[MassHistPres] Tracking renovations
Garrett Laws
copperandslate at gmail.com
Fri Jun 28 09:49:00 EDT 2024
Richard,
This should also be used as a preventative measure. Requiring a Google
Street View image (when available) sets the stage for an applicant to
realise that it’s now very easy for not only a commission but literally
everyone, to track the changes (past, present and future) to a property.
Garrett Laws
Copper & Slate Company
Waltham
On Sunday, June 23, 2024, Richard Smith via MassHistPres <
masshistpres at cs.umb.edu> wrote:
> I noticed something recently that may be useful in historic district
> commission reviews of contentious projects. In Google maps, you can select
> a location and look at it in Street View to see what the building and
> surroundings look like. If you look at the box that comes up with the
> street image, it offers you the most recent street images Google has taken
> with its date. However, next to the date, it says “see more dates”, and if
> you click on that you can bring up earlier views. What Maps does is
> archive its previous street view photos.
>
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> We were in Woodstock Vermont last night, and I saw a substantial
> reconstruction project in the village historic district. I was trying to
> remember what was there before, so I brought up the Google street view of
> the building, which is dated Nov 2022. When I clicked on “see more
> dates”, I found street views from Sept 2021, Sept 2018, Aug 2017, Nov
> 2016, and Aug 2013. That gave me a very good overview of how the property
> had changed.
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> If it is a street that the Google truck has revisited regularly, Street
> View can give historic districts and commissions a way to look back in time
> to find more clues to the recent renovation history. Were windows replaced
> without review? Was that porch enclosed by the present owner? When did
> those details disappear? Was it after the historic district was
> implemented? Street View can provide some objective documentation of how a
> historic property has evolved.
>
>
>
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Many Thanks,
Garrett Laws
The Copper & Slate Company <https://copperandslate.net>
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