“The Street is Memory”: Resisting Boston’s Urban Removal

When:
Thursday, Nov 13, 2025 7:00p -
8:30p

Where:
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way
Boston, MA 02115

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Admission:
$22

Hosted by:
isgm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Categories:
Art, History, Lectures & Conferences, Social Good

Event website:
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/street-memory-resisting-bostons-urban-removal

Allan Rohan Crite was both a history keeper and anti-gentrification activist, using his renderings of his neighbors in the South End and Lower Roxbury to document the displacement caused by urban renewal, which Crite referred to as “urban removal.” Join us as we discuss this complex history and the ways in which community trusts, neighborhood activists, policy makers, and artists today are striving to preserve and protect Boston’s diverse neighborhoods and communities.

 

 

Image Credit: Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910–2007), Burning and Digging: South End Housing Project, January 1940. Watercolor with ink and white highlights, 38 x 28 cm (14 15/16 x 11 in.) Boston Athenaeum, Gift of the artist, 1971 (A U9 Cri.a. 1940.b). Courtesy of the Allan Rohan Crite Research Institute and Library



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