4. REPORT, Committee on Appointments & Briefings, recommending to the City Council to Grant the DEMOLITION of 24 N Front Street (Map 79/Lots 2 & 4) Buildings 1, 3, 3A, eastern part of 2, formally known as the Revere Copper site. 

4a. COMMUNICATION/DEMOLITION, New Bedford Historical Commission, to City Council,  re: BUILDING DEMOLITION REVIEW RE: 24 N Front Street (Map 79/Lots 2 & 4 ) Buildings 1, 3, 3A, eastern part of 2; a historic resources survey, funded through a grant from the Massachusetts Historical Commission found the property at 24 N Front Street, known as the former Revere Copper site, to be eligible as a National Register District; the property is significant as the largest copper manufacturing facility in New Bedford during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and as a relatively unaltered example of a large-scale, mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century manufacturing complex; the property is significant because of its association with the Paul Revere Copper Company (founded in 1801 in Canton, MA) and Paul Revere’s great-grandson Edward H. R. Revere (1867–1957), who became general manager in 1920 and lent his surname to the present company name in 1929; the existing buildings are in fair to poor condition and are unable to be adapted for the purposes of modern fish processing; the property owner will be collaborating with the City to construct a new building which is architecturally sensitive to the Hicks-Logan District and provide an easement to assist in the potential widening of N Front Street, per statements made by the applicant team during the presentation to the Historical Commission; “in light of these findings, the New Bedford Historical Commission has determined that Buildings 1, 3, 3A and eastern part of 2, located at 24 N Front Street are Historically Significant but are not Preferably Preserved Historic Buildings.” 

(Referred to the Committee on Appointments and Briefings – May 12, 2022.)