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WE THE PEOPLE
Building the Past
The archaeology and architecture projects at Montpelier’s South Yard
BY MATT REEVES & JENNIFER GLASS
Aristotle’s dictum that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” applies to the ongoing collaboration
in the South Yard between Montpelier’s Archaeology and Architecture & Historic Preservation
departments. How have we taken what we’ve learned from archaeology and turned it into reconstructed
buildings? It’s been all about long-forgotten details, buried in the ground for over 150 years.
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