Making Time Visible

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Making Time Visible:
The Scollay Square/City Hall Project
August 27, 2002

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
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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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