St. Elizabeth's Medical Center recently received approval from its BRA institutional task force, the BRA Board, and the Zoning Board for their Institutional Master Plan and its Large Project, a new Emergency Room building at the corner of Cambridge Street and Washington Street.
An element of that project is the construction of a new access road to the ER which would run from the intersection of Washington Street and Monastery Road, alongside the historical landmark St. Gabriel's Monastery, and through a grove of trees.
Rumors were floating around Brighton in the last weeks that St. Elizabeth's had run into a snag: despite ground-breaking on the ER site itself, the access road has appeared delayed. The Boston Herald reports on some details of that delay: the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and the Massachusetts Historical Commission, are requiring St. Elizabeth's to conduct "an excavation... because of its proximity to a historic monastery and cemetery and what were once a Colonial-era farm and a Native American campsite."
No human bones have been found in the work to date. State officials are reviewing the archeological findings.
The A-B TAB reprinted the story. Unfortunately, they are running a photo of the ER location (with the caption "Work on the proposed site of an access road..."), not the actual access road several hundred yards away. Oops.
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