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When Michael Williams undertook his first ­restoration project, the William Grimms Carriage ­Factory on Johnson Street, partway into work on part of the building the entire front façade collapsed. Architect Peter Cotton designed a new one, based on old photographs of the 1870s original. So, the building is not original. It’s new. The original design has been reconstructed. So, what has this to do with a small assembly of ­European historic restoration experts who gathered in Athens in 1931 to professionalize what we call today “heritage conservation”? Their discussions were ­certainly an urgent response to what they deemed to be a major threat to historic monuments: the fast-rising popularity of new approaches to urban planning.

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