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1998
GUSN-169889
The threat that the Old South meetinghouse might be abandoned set off a 19th-century firestorm. As Bostonians flocked from the crowded downtown to the new Back Bay area, the very existence of the Old South was in danger. The reaction was incredible, and marked a change in the American thinking towards a changing public environment. Michael Holleran looks at what became the genesis of the modern preservation movement.
Article ID 285
SC001
Old-Time New England
SC001.1998.076.264.004
The threat that the Old South meetinghouse might be abandoned set off a 19th-century firestorm. As Bostonians flocked from the crowded downtown to the new Back Bay area, the very existence of the Old South was in danger. The reaction was incredible, and marked a change in the American thinking towards a changing public environment. Michael Holleran looks at what became the genesis of the modern preservation movement.
Volume 76, Number 264 (Spring/Summer 1998)
Michael Holleran (Author)
(1998). Old Time New England. Boston, Mass.: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
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Boston, Mass.
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Old Time New England
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