Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2081 First Curch from HABS

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2081

The First Parish Church plans to put the lantern room of the steeple back into place tomorrow. You can visit http://www.firstparishdorchester.org/pages/restoration   to see some of the restoration process

Photo of First Parish Church 1941 from Historic American Building Survey (HABS).

From Wikipedia:  In 1933, the National Park Service established the Historic American Buildings Survey as a make-work program for architects, draftsmen and photographers left jobless by the Great Depression. Guided by field instructions from Washington, D.C., the first HABS recorders were tasked with documenting a representative sampling of America’s architectural heritage. By creating an archive of historic architecture, HABS provided a data base of primary source material for the then fledgling historic preservation movement.

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