CONCORD: DOES PICTURE- PERFECT EVER GO TOO FAR? LYDIA GRAMSTAD A - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

CONCORD: DOES PICTURE- PERFECT EVER GO TOO FAR? LYDIA GRAMSTAD

A RURAL COMMUNITY 20 MILES NW OF BOSTON, 15 MILES N OF WELLESLEY CONCORD LAND USE GREEN = OPEN LAND YELLOW = RESIDENTIAL RED = COMMERCIAL

HOUSES IN URBAN + RURAL AREAS OF CONCORD

CONCORD’S HISTORIC LEGACY: (CLOCKWISE) OLD NORTH BRIDGE WITH MINUTEMAN STATUE, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT’S ORCHARD HOUSE, THE OLD MANSE, AUTHOR’S RIDGE IN SLEEPY HOLLOW CEMETERY, THOREAU FARM

HISTORIC DISTRICTS CONCORD HISTORICAL COMMISSION (HDC): COMMISSION (CHC): REVIEW EXTERIOR ARCHITECTURAL SAFEGUARD UNIQUE PHYSICAL FEATURES IN HISTORIC DISTRICTS ATTRIBUTES; DEMOLITION REVIEW

CONCORD MUSEUM PROJECT RENDERINGS

CONCORD MUSEUM EXPANSION AS OF APRIL

EXISTING LIBRARY 
 CONCORD LIBRARY + ADJACENT HOUSE

CONCORD LIBRARY BROWN = LIBRARY YELLOW = HISTORIC HOUSE BLUE = PROPOSED ADDITION PROPOSED LIBRARY EXPANSION AS OF APRIL

BROOKS STEVENS JR. ESTATE OLDER + RECENT PHOTOS

A NEED FOR THE FINAL THOUGHTS: DESIGNS OF TODAY

PHOTO SOURCES Author’s photographs, April 2019. ▸ Civic Moxie, “Existing Conditions Excerpt from the Envision Concord Public Event – Part 2 Presentation,” ▸ October 21, 2017. Concord Museum, ConcordMuseumCampaign.org, 2019. ▸ Find a Grave, “Sleepy Hollow Cemetery,” October 2014. ▸ Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area, “Thoreau,” 2016. ▸ Johnson Roberts Associates, Inc., “Concord Free Public Library Expansion Presentation to the Concord ▸ Historic District,” March 21, 2019. Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, “About Us,” 2018. Screenshot of Boston metropolitan area from Google ▸ Maps, May 2019. Town of Concord, “Demolition Review - 1075 Lowell Road,” 2019. ▸ Town of Concord, “Map of Historic Districts,” April 2018. ▸ Wikipedia, “The Old Manse,” April 2009. ▸ Wytchery, “Revolutionary War Battlefields: Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts,” 2014. ▸