Many preservationists are alarmed by a New Jersey developer’s plan to buy Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church because they don’t want to see the building demolished or insensitively altered.

For Norman Bosley the issue is more personal: He doesn’t want to see history lost.

“I have a deep and peculiar interest shaped over time,” he wrote in a letter to the Baltimore Planning Commission. “My father, Dr. Harold A. Bosley, was pastor there from 1938 to 1947. My childhood is rich with tales which evoke John Ruskin’s view that architecture embodies people’s values and history. Though he wrote of European culture, such is true here, too.”

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