[MassHistPres] Local Preservation Update E-Newsletter - June 1, 2009

[Skelly, Christopher @ SEC]

LOCAL PRESERVATION UPDATE E-NEWSLETTER

Published by the Massachusetts Historical Commission

June 1, 2009

 

This e-newsletter from the Massachusetts Historical Commission
Preservation Planning Division has been prepared for local historical
commissions, historic district commissions and others interested in
historic preservation activities around the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts.  It is published roughly every other week.  If you have
suggestions or items of interest for this newsletter, please contact
Chris Skelly at the Massachusetts Historical Commission.
Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us <mailto:Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us> 

 

LOCAL HISTORICAL COMMISSION MEMBERSHIP UPDATES

Local Historical Commission Membership Update Forms were recently sent
to all local historical commission chairpersons.  If you have received
this form, please update it with current commission member names,
addresses, phone numbers and email addresses and return it to the
Massachusetts Historical Commission.  The forms help MHC keep local
commission members informed and provide us with local contacts when we
need to communicate with you.  For new members listed on the form, we
will send out a new member packet including the Preservation Planning
Manual, the guidebook for local historical commission members.  We've
already received over 60 updated forms from around the state.   If you
haven't sent in your membership update form already, please do so.   We
will also gladly accept an electronic version of your commission
membership if that is easier for you.  

 

SPRING ANNUAL TOWN MEETINGS

At its annual spring town meeting, the town of Plympton revised its
demolition delay bylaw from 6 months to 18 months.   

 

Are you bringing a preservation bylaw to your annual town meeting or did
your town recently pass a new preservation bylaw?  If so, please let me
know.  

Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us <mailto:Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us> 

 

NEW LISTINGS ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES

North Adams, H.W. Clark Biscuit Co., 179-191 Ashland Ave.

North Attleborough, The Codding Farm, 217 High Street. 

 

MASS AUDUBON PUBLISHES REPORT ON DEVELOPMENT IN MASSACHUSETTS

Mass Audubon's "Losing Ground: Beyond the Footprint" is the latest in a
series of reports highlighting development pressures statewide.  This
edition considers the impact of development from 1999-2005 in each city
and town of Massachusetts.   The report found good news that
Massachusetts is protecting more land than is lost to development.
However, the report notes that 22 acres of land is developed each day in
Massachusetts with some areas particularly threatened by sprawl
development.  The Losing Ground website features interactive maps and
statistics for Massachusetts municipalities and regions.  For more
information, visit http://www.massaudubon.org/losingground/
<http://www.massaudubon.org/losingground/> 

 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS AND DATES TO REMEMBER

June 3, 2009

Preservation Mass Workshop 201 on Preparing MHC Inventory Forms, Howard
School, 70 Howard Street, West Bridgewater, 6:30 to 8:30 PM.  For more
information and/or to register, email elsafitzgerald at aol.com
<mailto:elsafitzgerald at aol.com> . 

June 5, 2009 

Deadline for Save our History Grant Program.  www.saveourhistory.com
<http://www.saveourhistory.com/> 

June 12-13, 2009

North Bennet Street School is hosting a wooden window sash restoration
workshop.  For more information, visit www.nbss.org
<http://www.nbss.org/> .

June 15, 2009

The Ultimate Recycling: Historic Preservation & Environmental
Protection, Robertson on the River, 120 Ingell Street, Taunton, 6:30 pm
to 8:30 pm

Sponsored by The Neighborhood Corporation, The Trust for Public Land and
Preservation Mass.  For more information contact Elisa Scully at
elisa at neighborhoodcorp.org <mailto:elisa at neighborhoodcorp.org> .  

 

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Please forward this newsletter on to others that may be interested.  If
you are receiving this as a forwarded message and would like to receive
it directly, please contact the Massachusetts Historical Commission.
The Massachusetts Historical Commission also has a listserve, known as
masshistpres, specifically for historic preservation.  You can join this
listserve by visiting
http://mailman.cs.umb.edu/mailman/listinfo/masshistpres
<http://mailman.cs.umb.edu/mailman/listinfo/masshistpres> .  This
newsletter is posted on masshistpres directly and sent to local
commission members.  We welcome your thoughts on what you would like to
see in this newsletter.  The website for the Massachusetts Historical
Commission is http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcidx.htm
<http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcidx.htm> 

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