[MassHistPres] How to catalyze adaptive reuse of a church

[Aaron Marcavitch]

Good call on the Partnes for Sacred Spaces.  But I would also say that the folks at Historic
Boston have been doing good work in this area.

Who is the current owner?  Can you get the authority to run a design charette for the building? 
Just showing people what could be done might generate the interest.

Aaron
Nantucket, MA

--- Brian Yates <byates at comteam.org> wrote:

> Partners for Sacred Spaces from Philadelphia is the national organization
> with the most experience in this.  There was a Preservation Coalition of
> organizations in Greater Boston that developed a package of information
> during the closings here.  Try Historic Mass. and the Boston office of the
> National Trust.
> 
> On 11/19/07, slater at alum.rpi.edu <slater at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
> >
> > There is an 1860's church in Springfield that is not within a local
> > historic district and does not have any state-held preservation
> > restrictions on it. It was closed by the Roman Catholic Diocese of
> > Springfield and is up for sale. The church sits on land that could be
> > considered "prime" for non-historic use -- a street with a lot of
> > automobile traffic, right next to Route 91 (it's St. Joseph's Roman
> > Catholic Church, for those familiar with Springfield).
> >
> > Given there is no legal protection for this building, and no
> > governmental interest in the building, I'm looking for specific ideas
> > how a local historical commission can drum up private interest for
> > adaptive reuse. Absent of incentive funds, are there any steps that we
> > might try to incite someone to buy this building and convert it into
> > something else?
> >
> > Ralph Slate
> > Springfield Historical Commission
> >
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