Word: historicization
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Last August, Radcliffe President Matina Horner presented President Derek C. Bok with a plan to restore the water pump--which served the Yard more than 200 years ago--and build a brick garden around the site. But she forgot to check with the Cambridge Historical Commission, which must approve all...
On most holidays, Peking's Tiananmen Square is jammed with thousands of residents and visitors who traditionally promenade through the 100-acre open area and photograph one another in front of the surrounding monuments. But on New Year's Day, revelers arriving at the huge square found it virtually blocked...
Bettina A. Norton, the director of theCambridge Historical Society was delighted to see,"A classical form of a field of play joinreligious edifices, cultural sights and numerousinstitutional and residential buildings on theregister of National Historic Landmarks."
Individual buildings, such as Sever, MemorialHall and University Hall and areas such as HarvardYard and the River Houses are also on the registerof historic landmarks.
The Stadium fits into this year's recreationtheme selected by the federal government as amotif for historic designation. Other honorees areBoston's Fenway Park and Chicago's Wrigley Field.