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Article: Fenway Park makes endangered list.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- September 24, 1999
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Fenway Park was named one of the 10 most-endangered historic buildings in the state by a leading preservation group yesterday in a public relations blow to the Red Sox's plan to replace the 87-year-old ballpark with a new one.
Historic Massachusetts Inc., the statewide historic preservation group, put the Fenway facility on its endangered list because of the team's plans announced this spring to tear down nearly all of it after building a near-replica across the street.
While most people associate preservation with colonial-era structures, Fenway Park is an extremely important part of New England's social history, said Historic Massachusetts President ...