Boston's Landmarks Commission is pushing to designate Boston City Hall — and its its iconic, if divisive, architecture, as an official landmark. Here's a look at what the designation would mean for the 55-year-old building and where the process goes from here.
This is an excerpt from WBUR's daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox,, Boston City Hall — and its brutalist architecture — may be here to stay. The city’s Landmarks Commission is pushing to designate the monumental concrete building’s exterior and interior main lobby space as an official landmark. It’s a big step toward keeping the iconic, if divisive, 55-year-old building largely the way it looks.
Why does it matter? Landmark status basically provides the highest level of protection in the field of historic preservation. City officials say it would protect City Hall from any “physical changes that might compromise its significance and integrity.”, the Landmarks Commission wrote that it represents a “pivotal moment” in Boston’s architectural history, with a design aimed at bringing government closer to the people.
What’s next: The Landmarks Commission will take amendment suggestions at today’s hearing and then draft a final report to vote on at a later time, TBD. If they vote yes, it then needs to get approval from the City Council and the mayor. (Mayor Michelle Wu’s office declined to comment at this point in the process, but she is
Go deeper: Landmark status could also provide a “good framework” for managing smaller changes to the aging building, according to the commission. As WBUR’s Walter Wuthmannwho died yesterday after falling from a high-rise tower in downtown Boston as 40-year-old Nicholas Marks. The East Weymouth resident was washing the windows of a building on Summer Street when he apparently fell.at least one of the ropes holding Marks’ platform appeared to have snapped, about 16 stories up.
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