City of Newton, MA
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Historic Lighting
1-74 Washington Park
Newtonville, MA 02460
Goals
Purchase and install historically appropriate lighting along the edges of Washington Park, a planned neighborhood laid out in 1868.
This neighborhood was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Funding
| $131,035 | CPA funds appropriated (historic resources) |
| $4,000 | Neighborhood contribution |
| $126,629 | CPA funds spent |
| $130,629 | Total Project Cost |
Contacts
From 2004 proposal; organization & contacts no longer active as of spring 2012:
Park Friends, Inc.
18 Washington Park
Newtonville, MA 02460
Commissioner of Parks & Recreation
City of Newton
246 Dudley Road, Newton, MA 02459
bderubeis@newtonma.gov
617-796-1500
Proposal Review & Appropriations
- 15 October 2004 - Proposal
- 6 October 2004 - Letters of support
- 26 April 2005 - CPC funding recommendation
- 16 May 2005 - Board order (appropriation)
Project News
- December 2004-March 2005 - Massachusetts Historical Commission comments on National Register eligibility
- 12 December 2006 - Request for extension of project deadline
- September 2008 - Washington Park National Register Historic District:
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