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Dune shacks will continue to be protected but current residents will not get TCP status. |
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Seashore releases decision on dune shack status
Banner Daily Update posted Fri. May 25
Dune-dwellers in the Cape Cod National Seashore do not rise to the level of recognition as a traditional cultural property (TCP), the Seashore announced in a press release Thursday.
The Dune Shack District, in the Provincetown and Truro areas of the Seashore, does not satisfy these requirements, according to a memo from Keeper Janet Snyder Matthews, of the National Register of Historic Places.
The National Park Service’s Northeast Regional Office put forth its opinion in January that though the dune shacks do have historical significance and the dune shack distric was deemed eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, the community of “dune dwellers and their networks of friends are not, as a whole, a segment of the Lower Cape Community because significant numbers of them are permanent residents in other off-Cape communities.”
And Thursday the Keeper Matthews agreed with that opinion in her ruling that the district “should not be identified for its significance as a TCP,” because “the group/community must have existed historically and the same group/community continues to the present.”
This decision should not materially affect the 1989 National Register of Historic Places determination, wrote Matthews, “nor does it affect the ongoing responsibility of park management to consult with the community and the various groups within the community on its planning and management activities.”
Look for more on this decision in the May 31 Provincetown Banner.
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May 24th, 2007