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Autographed
copies of Scollay Square (Arcadia Publishing, 2004) and
Always Something Doing: Boston's Infamous Scollay Square (Northeastern University Press, 1999) can be purchased on our home page. |
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Autographed
copies of Scollay Square (Arcadia Publishing, 2004) and
Always Something Doing: Boston's Infamous Scollay Square (Northeastern University Press, 1999) can be purchased on our home page. |
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Making Time Visible was a temporary public art installation, conceived by Gretchen Schneider (an architect who teaches at Smith College, Northampton, MA) that would render the streets of old Scollay Square on City Hall Plaza in chalk. Under Schneider’s supervision, local architects, architectural students and team of students from the Citizens Schools will spend the day on City Hall Plaza surveying, laying out and drawing in chalk Cornhill, Brattle, Hanover, and Washington Street, four of the 22 streets that once crisscrossed Scollay Square. You can read Gretchen's orginal proposal here. Email Gretchen here.
August 27, 2002: a panorama of City Hall Plaza with the streets
of
old Scollay Square drawn in chalk dust.
(Montage reprocessed by Arthur
Lemay, who runs own the
largest throughbred race horse breeding farm in California)
The developer of 1-2-3 Center Plaza, Norm Leventhal
and the architect of the new arcade on City Hall Plaza, Alex Krieger
Volunteers drawing the outline of Dr. Zabdiel Boylston's
Brattle Square house. (Boylston pioneered the practice
of innoculation against smallpox)
Making Time Visible creator Gretchen Schneider with
volunteers on City Hall Plaza
Esther Kaplan (center, in red), who is the Commissioner for
Cultural Affairs for the City of Boston, chatting with members
and students of CitizenSchools
After years of planning and work, Gretchen officially
unveils Making Time Visible to the public
After the ceremony, Norm meets students from CitizenSchools
Gretchen and author David Kruh, standing
beside one of the informational sandwich boards
See more photos
taken by our friend (and producer
of the informational posters and handouts) Lee
Herterich
of 
HERE
IS A MAP SHOWING THE OLD STREETS OF
SCOLLAY SQUARE AND THE NEW BUILDINGS
OF
GOVERNMENT CENTER
This program was supported by a
grant from the
Boston
Cultural Agenda Fund, of the City of Boston
The Making Time Visible Project
was also
made possible by generous contributions
from:
Boston Society of Architects
With additional support from:
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