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THE OUTSIDERS.(the resurrection of South Boston, Massachusetts)

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From 1966, Joan Colebrook on urban renewal in Boston's South End

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in South Boston has had its share of both bedevilment and blessings. A grand gray building, a pile of granite chunks pierced by Gothic arches and topped with a copper-clad bell tower, was erected in 1844 and dedicated with extravagant ceremony; four years later, it burned to the ground. After it was rebuilt, it was so popular that another parish had to be established nearby to handle the overflow. But in time South Boston started to empty--slowly at first, and then like a bathtub with an open drain--and Saints Peter and Paul emptied, too. On New Year's Day, 1996, ...

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