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Lexington, Massachusetts 02173
Meeting Minutes
January 9, 1979 Room G15
7130 p.m. Town Office Building
Present2 Sara Chase , Bebe Fallick, Anne Grady
The meeting was called to order by Sara Chase at 7=40 .
MINUTES The minutes of the meeting of December 14, 1978
were read, corrected and accepted.
FILES Sara Chase suggested that the Commission files be
organized and transferred to the Town Offices by
June of 1979 at the latest. She will find out
where the file cabinet which has been assigned to
the Commission has been placed.
INVENTORY Bebe Fallick has received all of the inventory
materials from Betty Reinhardt except the Moon
Hill forms which Sara Chase has. Ms. Fallick
will meet with Sara Chase in the near future to
go over the inventory. Ms . Fallick will also
review the MAPC inventory forms for Lexington
public buildings and add to them further information
from the Commission' s own forms.
It was agreed that the next step is to organize
the inventory forms and assess how much remains to
be done . Anne Grady will ask the Town Engineer
if a plot plan of Lexington (of manageable size)
exists.
A discussion followed about how to find volunteers.
Anne Grady will ask several people she knows .if
they are interested in working. Sara Chase will
ask Rosemary Booth.
NATIONAL TRUST Ms . Chase read a letter from the National Trust for
INTERN Historic Preservation stating that the LHC' s
application for a summer intern has been turned
down. The reason given was that the National Trust
received many high quality applications and could
only fund some of them.
RIDGE II ' j... Anne Grady was asked by Joe Orfant of the Massachu-
ESTATTES setts Historical Commission to help assess the
impact of the proposed Ridge II estates on two
existing dwellings of the land parcel. She was
unable to get to the site of one of the dwellings,
but passed on information about the other to
Mr. Orfant.
HANCOCK SCHOOL Sara Chase will receive from John Orcutt by
Friday, January 12 a draft of recommendations
for further work on the Hancock School. The
question was raised as to whether the Commission
should present a written evaluation of the success
of the Hancock School project to the Selectmen or
the School Sites Conversion Committee .
Bebe Fallick described the Hancock Condominuims
opening celebration.
PROPOSED Anne Grady passed out copies of a law submitted
LEGISLATION to the Massachusetts legislature by the Cambridge
Historical Commission. The law would cover
neighborhood conservation districts and landmark
and landmark area designations . The LHC was
asked to comment.
BANDSTAND Plans and elevations of the bandstand proposed
to be built by the Rotary Club on the grounds of
the Buckman tavern were reviewed. Sara Chase will
convey the Historical Commission's opinion of the
project to the Historic District Commission at
the hearing on January 10 .
It was agreed that:
1 . An archeological survey of the site should
be done .
2 . While we all like the spontaneity of open air
concerts, we are not opposed to a bandstand
either on the Green of on the Buckman tavern
grounds.
3 . The currently proposed bandstand (30 ' in
diameter and 33' in height) is out of scale
with the historically important surroundings .
4. We would prefer a simpler design. We do not
feel it necessary for the Town to erect a
copy of a victorian design.
MEETING DATES The dates for Historical Commission meetings
through June were set as follows:
February 8, March 8, April 12, May 10 , and June 14.
The meeting was adjourned at 9.25 p.m. .
Respectfully submitted,
Anne Grady