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The Times, they are a-changin'
By adamg on Fri, 06/10/2016 - 1:28pm
Phil R. took the time this morning to photograph the munching of the building that used to house the Times on Broad Street, making way, of course, for some badly needed condos in a 12-story building. The neighboring building, which housed the Littlest Bar, is part of the project, but its shell will be preserved - given that Bulfinch himself put the thing up back in 1805 - and turned into a lobby and some condos.
Jennie Pane-Joyce watched the demolition from the other side:
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Never cared
for The Times, but The Littlest was one of Boston's most underrated bars.
Tiny Littlest > Medium Littlest
Province St > Broad St. (at least regarding the Littlest)
The Littlest on Province Street was Good.
The Times and the Littlest here were kind of run as one bar. The internal door between the two was open a lot.
For those of you with grey hair starting to dominate; The Times was formerly the short lived but fun Ayer's Rock (circa 1994-1995) and the Littlest was Al Capone's.
The repurposing of this site is a restoration of the pre--elevated XWay build out of that block. Urban density, facing a park, with more retail. Not so bad.
Those kinds of buildings are
Those kinds of buildings are what make for interesting locations rather than the new construction.
Hardy plank
We need more condos that look like a five story Home Depot with Hardy Plank siding.
Agreed. This building was
Agreed. This building was another sad loss for Boston. You can't unring a bell.
Who cares?
You can't unring a bell AND you can't keep ringing the same bell forever.
We need to maintain a mixture of tradition and new development. New development is more energy efficient, more space efficient, more pedestrian friendly, more of everything we want our city to be.
We don't live in a museum!
This preservation of "exactly how it is" (which isn't even how it was because the preservation movement didn't really gain power until the mid 20th century). That's 150 years of things changing from the "way they were". We're "preserving" the 1920's these days, not the 1700's. Who cares what 1920's Boston looked like? Why is that something worth preserving?
This building wasn't 160 Federal or the Old State House.
PS - When do the handicap ramps in Beacon Hill start getting built, because according to this the state review was done in May, so the judge's order has been fulfilled.