[MassHistPres] bad website link

[Bettina Urcuioli]

Sorry, the web link I provided earlier doesn't work. Please try this one instead:


http://www.ci.newton.ma.us/jackson/burying-grounds/index.asp




On 28 Jul 2008 at 12:11, masshistpres at cs.umb.edu wrote:

From:           	Bettina Urcuioli <burcuioli at newtonma.gov>
To:             	masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
Subject:        	info re: Request for Qualifications for tomb repair and conservation
Date sent:      	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:11:53 -0400

The Newton History Museum is looking for examples of Requests for   
Qualifications that Mass. municipalities have used when soliciting  
proposals from conservation firms to write specifications and design  
contracts for work related to the  repair and conservation of tombs in  
historic municipal burying grounds.   

Approx. 30 tombs (mound/ vault and basal) have been identified as  
needing conservation and/or repair treatment in two of the three sites.   
A  set of recommendations and scope of work was updated in 2003.   
Minimum qualifications  would include structural engineering as well as  
historic masonry experience.   

Working with the City of Newton's Parks and Recreation Dept., the  
Museum was  granted CPA  funding in 2004 to undertake a large-scale  
conservation project in the  city's three historic burying grounds.  To  
date, the project has involved a complete conditions assessment,  
stabilization of the grounds, removal of dead trees and  volunteer  
growth, and conservation of approx. 260 gravestones.    

More information on the overall project can be found at:  
http://internet/jackson/burying-grounds/index.asp  

If you have any information or insight to share about RFQs, please  
contact NHM's  project manager:  

Bettina M. Urcuioli  
burcuioli at newtonma.gov  

or send a response to the listserv.    

We'd be very grateful for your help!  

-Bettina