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Article: Plan for Ames site draws foes Preservationists see character loss
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2008
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GLOBE SOUTH 1 / EASTON
EASTON - An important piece of Easton's history is being targeted
for development into 182 apartments under the state's affordable-
housing law. But a group of preservationists, led by descendants of
Easton's famed Ames family, is hoping to have at least some say in
how the 8-acre property is changed in the process.
The Ames Shovel Co., a complex of granite, wood, and metal
factory buildings nestled in the North Easton Village Historic
District, was built and run by generations of the Ames family from
1803 to 1952.
Five historic stone buildings, paid for by the Ames family and
designed by well-known architect Henry Hobson Richardson, border the
factory complex and ...
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