Old Fashioned Preservation

While doing research at Brookline Preservation Commission Wednesday, I found an article from a 1970's brookline newspaper (The Citizen I believe). On the cover of the paper was a woman ice skating at the newly created rink in Larz Anderson Park. However, inside the paper was a much more amusing story.

This article on the restoration of the house at 21 Newton Street included a very old-school preservation line:

"George Washington slept here"

This information was also included in the 2011 tour guide of the estate but it was much funnier to stumble upon in a 1970's newspaper, in a time when, if President Washington rested his tired eyes there, then the building MUST be preserved.