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I am editing my review from a year ago 5 stars to 1 star. If I could rate you at none I would. How shameful of you to push the store Lilly & Beau out (the only g stores. Each weekend brings many new items. You just never know what you mighThe changing of the guard on Louisburg Square mirrors other transitions from blue blood to new blood, from old money to new money, urban scholars say: Pacific Heights in San Francisco, or, to a lesser extent, Society Hill in Philadelphia or the lakeside Gold Coast in Chicago. ''You could call it turbo-gentrification,'' the sociologist Alan Wolfe said, borrowing from a new book on the super-charged economy, ''Turbo-capitalism.''But other scholars and participants describe it as a sort of de-gentrification: A process in which meritocracy, or marketocracy, periodically triumphs over breeding in forming an elite. For a city's own good, if it wants to avoid economic atrophy, the new money had better triumph, historians say.These days, ''young people and people with ideas and people who like the tumble and tide are attracted to Boston and San Francisco and Chicago and New York'' and a few other spots, said Kenneth T. Jackson, an urban historian at Columbia University.''

I think that St. Louis, New Orleans, maybe in some ways Memphis, are cities that had an older elite that wasn't as open to new people,'' Mr. Jackson said, ''and I think all those cities suffered a little bit.''Here in Boston, the effect of the old money's accession to new is felt in subtle ways: the clutter of construction trash bins and trucks on Beacon Hill and in the tony Back Bay, as new owners spend millions on interior renovations; blinds and curtains derehamthe increasingly diverse trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra or the Museum of Fine Arts; target sidelight curtainsin talk of the city's economic and cultural vibrancy, and a sense that the old Brahmin monopoly on financial and social power, like the Irish monopoly on political power, has given way to something more open and complex.red poppy curtains at argos

On Louisburg Square the change comes into clear relief. These days, neighbors say, they cannot name a full-blown Brahmin left in residence. The current owners of the 27 town houses that line the square include Chris Gabrieli, a son of immigrants who made millions in software and is now a venture capitalist; merete curtains whiteRobin Cook, a self-described ''poor boy from Queens'' who bought his house after writing ''Coma,'' the best-selling novel; curtains todmordenPeter Lynch, the Fidelity investment guru; eclipse curtains 52x84Alan Friedberg, retired chairman of Loews Theatres; curtains todmordenThomas Stemberg, who built the Staples office supply chain, and Amos Hostetter, who built Continental Cablevision.Several of the new residents are ensconced not only in their own paneled libraries but in philanthropic activities once mainly the province of Brahmins.Mr.

Hostetter is widely said to be about to start the biggest private foundation in Boston. Mr. Gabrieli has a family foundation and oversees a public-policy center. Mr. Lynch announced this week that he and his wife were giving more than $10 million to Boston College's school of education. ''It's not like it used to be, when your name had to be something and your background had to be something,'' said Mr. Friedberg, the retired Loews chairman, who serves on several boards. ''Now it's more a question of, are you a valuable asset? Not just in terms of money, but are you a straight shooter, are you willing to roll up your sleeves and work?''I think the game rules have changed. It's not about whether you have the right ancestors, it's who you are.''Who you are also affects to some extent how you direct your money, Mr. Gabrieli said.''By and large, it's somewhat less toward traditional culture and arts -- though that's not to say there's no giving there, there is -- and more heavily toward education and opportunity,'' he said.

Mr. Gabrieli added: ''These people, myself included, are entrepreneurs. The pitch that XYZ museum has been around forever and deserves a new generation of stewards is less appealing -- not that it should be, because those are great institutions -- but it's less appealing than, 'Here's a new idea that could really transform something and really needs some drive behind it.' ''The social transformation of Louisburg Square began to take on steam in the late 1970's, said Thomas Townsend, a real estate broker and authority on the Hill. Old Brahmins' departures and deaths opened the way to owners with a new kind of money. Now, at the end of the century, the strong economy and restored city chic are bringing Beacon Hill renewed glory. Its impeccable preservation, central location and community spirit have combined to make it a neighborhood so hot that a former carriage house is for sale here at nearly $2 million.As recently as 1970 the Louisburg Square town houses sold for around $100,000.

The first Beacon Hill sale to crack $1 million came in 1984 on Louisburg Square, real estate agents say. Though a handful of more modest rental units and condominiums remain, recent sales have exceeded $3 million and $4 million.On ''the Hill,'' where the sweep of historical memory spans the two centuries since it was built up by developers who also sliced off its top, the influx of mega-rich appears to evoke mixed feelings. No one seems to mourn the isolationist side of the Brahmin reign, or the crumbling Boston of two or three decades ago that dropped prices and sent families fleeing to the suburbs.And the strong sense of history prompts obvious parallels: Karen Cord Taylor, editor and publisher of The Beacon Hill Times, pointed out that Charles Bulfinch, the famed architect and developer whose gems, like the State House, crown Beacon Hill, was something like the Donald J. Trump of his day. And who were the original Beacon Hill residents but entrepreneurs who happened to be in shipping and import-export and banking rather than technology and media?

''They were the nouveaux riches and arrivistes of their day,'' she said.Still, the arrival of this new wave is bringing some consternation along with the welcome for billionaire blockbusters.Henry Lee, scion of a Brahmin family and longtime resident of a house that looks out on Louisburg Square but is not technically a part of it, said that many of the new rich residents are laudably generous to community causes like the Friends of the Public Garden, which he heads. But he worries, he said, that ''money is a terrible destroyer of architecture.''''Poverty is a great preserver,'' Mr. Lee added. ''One thing I do deplore is that an awful lot of people have moved into houses on Louisburg Square and elsewhere and gutted them.''Some houses may have needed gutting, said Mr. Cook, the novelist, who discovered the dirty little secret of Louisburg Square when he moved in: The houses were largely built by developers rather than by owners, and their grandeur sometimes hides ''pathetic'' construction flaws that require major repairs like new foundations.

Still, Mr. Lee and others are concerned about architectural treasures being thrown out with the 19th-century heating systems. And there seems an element of psychological discomfort as well.''I sometimes am a little appalled to look out and realize three or four billionaires are living on Louisburg Square, let alone millionaires,'' Mr. Lee said, sounding dryly amused. One recent Christmas, he said, he saw a Porsche with a fat red ribbon around it parked on the square -- ''probably a stocking present.''Nonetheless, perhaps the most striking thing about the square's social transformation is that, aside from the fanciness of the cars parked on the dedicated spots that other Beacon Hill residents would kill for, its appearance is virtually unchanged, preserved under glass by powerful rules and even more powerful public sentiment that Beacon Hill's beauty lies in its historical integrity.Its little park, often compared to those in London and locked to all but the residents, seems as unchanging as the houses' understatedly grand facades.