Historic Preservation
Historic Preservation in Newton
The Newton/North Newton Historic Preservation Commission works to foster education about the preservation movement and Newton and North Newton's cultural, historical and architectural heritage, to recognize and protect properties that are historically or architecturally significant, and to rescue or document endangered significant properties in Newton and North Newton.
"Communities, in the sense in which we are using the term, have a history -- in an important sense they are constituted by their past -- and for this reason we can speak of a real community as a 'community of memory', one that does not forget its past."
- Robert Bellah
- Robert Bellah
