[MassHistPres] house to be razed

[GRETCHEN SCHULER]

Any chance that the town could move to other town owned property and rehab
for affordable housing?

Gretchen Schuler
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EDW HANNULA" <betsyhannula at verizon.net>
To: "List Serve Mass Historical Commission" <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 3:40 PM
Subject: [MassHistPres] house to be razed


> Hi Everyone,
>   In Westminster, we have a small Cape, c. 1761 sitting on property
> recently purchased by the City of Fitchburg for watershed protection,
> and they plan to bulldoze the house.  We've received permission to move
> the house, and the person can have the house for the cost of removing
> it.  The Historical Commission obviously is interested in saving the
> building, or at the very least saving the materials from a fate of filling
> a dumpster.
>       1.  Does anyone know of someone who might like a house?
>       2.  I'm looking for samples of a classified ad for the newspapers
> to advertise this fact.
>       3.  If someone has had experience with this kind of thing, are
> there steps I should take to avoid the inevitable pitfalls in this kind
> of project?
>       Thanks for your help.
>       Betsy Hannula
>
>
>
> Betsy Hannula
> 68 Harrington Road
> Westminster, MA 01473
>
> Tel. 978-874-0430
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