**Events and
News**
Events
May 15, AIA Historic Resources Committee Reception,
hosted by Goody Clancy, sponsored by Restore Media
6:00 - 7:30 p.m. HRC members are welcome to attend (no
registration necessary). Goody Clancy (second floor lobby),
420 Boylston Street (at Berkeley), Boston, 02116
May 15 Exhibition opening -- Designing the Great
Building of 20th-Century Boston: Kallmann, McKinnell and
Knowles' Drawings for Boston City Hall
6:00 to 9:00 pm at Wentworth Institute of Technology's
Watson Hall (550 Huntington Avenue; near the Museum of Fine
Arts T stop). Features 1962 competition-winning
architectural drawings for Boston City Hall, including
sketches, studies and presentation drawings from both rounds
of the national design competition. The exhibit runs from
10:00 am to 9:00 pm on May 15 and 16, and from 10:00 am to
5:00 pm on May 17.
May 16-17, Seventh Annual Doors Open Lowell
Presented as part of Lowell's National Preservation Month
activities. The event offers an insider's look into the
preservation nearly thirty of Lowell's fabulous historic
buildings, many not normally open to the public. It's a
celebration of urban living and culture where people and
preservation have made Lowell a creative and exciting place
to live and work. Buildings will be open Friday May 16 (6-9
pm) and Saturday May 17 (11am - 6pm). Check the event's
website www.doorsopenlowell.org
for full event information and regular updates. Look for the
pull out guide in the Wednesday May 14 edition of the Lowell
Sun. Program guide will also be available at the Lowell
National Historical Park Visitor Center in Market Mills at
246 Market Street throughout the event.
News
April 2008 + Providence Preservation Society Appoints
New Executive Director
The Providence Preservation Society board of trustees
appointed George Born to be its new Executive Director, and
he will take over on June 2. Originally from New Hampshire
and southern Maine, Born joins PPS from the Historic Florida
Keys Foundation, a regional preservation group based in Key
West, Florida, where he worked for 12 years. Since 2001, he
has written a biweekly newspaper column 'On historic
preservation' for The Key West Citizen. In 2007, the
History Press published a selection of these essays in the
book Preserving Paradise: The Architectural Heritage and
History of the Florida Keys. He will be introduced to
PPS members and friends during the June 6-7, 2008 PPS
Festival of Historic Houses, an annual tour of historic
properties. Further information is available at
www.ppsri.org.
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