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Today, Preservation Massachusetts was quoted in an article about a previously listed Most Endangered Historic Resource:
Threatened: Salem Witch Trial Survivor’s House
By Margaret Foster | Preservation Nation | Online Only | Jan. 19, 2010
A Massachusetts house built by a Salem witch trial survivor has stood empty for a decade, but a group of locals wants to save the boarded-up structure….
… Saving the Clayes House has been a challenge because it was previously owned by a couple who divorced. “Unclear title chain makes purchase and restoration extremely difficult,” says Erin Kelly, assistant director of Preservation Massachusetts, which placed the Clayes House on its 2007 list of the state’s most endangered historic places. “The unique history and wonderful architecture of this property are an incredible local resource.”
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Putting poor farm to use
Housing advocates, historic preservationists have eyes on Milton site
Globe Staff / December 1, 2009
MILTON – Preservationists, housing advocates, and other residents here are at odds over what to do with the town’s centuries-old poor farm. Should the 34-acre site be preserved as a historical reminder of how the community once aided its less fortunate citizens or be used for affordable housing that would benefit today’s residents?
For the full article, click here.
In Concord, a bid to save tie to abolitionist days
Globe Staff / September 14, 2009
CONCORD – Amid such historical touchstones as Walden Pond and the Old North Bridge, the quaint cottage barely merits a second glance, just another Revolutionary-era New England house in a town steeped in the past.
But the brown shingled house on Bedford Street, built in the 1780s by the town’s first freed slave, is the last of its kind, a crucial but long-forgotten link to the town’s early black community and abolitionist movement. With the house in danger of being demolished, its history has emerged from obscurity, and advocates have mounted a spirited campaign to stave off its demise.
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The Caesar-Robbins House in Concord listed as a Massachusetts Most Endangered Historic Resource on September 11, 2009 – The house was the home of several generations of Concord’s early African-American families as well as connections to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson! To help save this historic resource please visit http://drinkinggourd.cchumanrights.org
