[MassHistPres] MassHistPres Digest, Vol 39, Issue 20
James Hadley
jameswhadley at hotmail.com
Tue May 26 12:41:31 EDT 2009
I strongly recommend the consultants list at PreservatiONMASS for finding
qualified consutants and craftspeople.
James Hadley AIA, chair, Orleans Historical Commission.
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> Jane:
>
> Mendon passed the Community Preservation Act, which provides a source of
> funding for historic preservation projects like the restoration of the
> cobbler's shop. I'd get in touch with your local Community Preservation
> Committee to find out how to request funds for this project. You could
> request funds to hire a consultant or contractor with experience working
> on
> historic buildings to assess the condition of the building, make
> restoration recommendations and develop cost estimates prior to
> undertaking
> any physical work. Then, once you have a better sense of the scale of the
> project and how much it will cost, you could request funds to actually do
> the restoration.
>
> Joanna
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> 1. cobbler's shop (Jane Lowell)
> 2. Re: cobbler's shop (Jack Authelet)
> 3. workshops (Marcia Starkey)
> 4. Tour of the Somerville Milk Row Cemetery tonight, 6:30PM
> (BMangum411 at aol.com)
> 5. Boston Early Modern (Ttorwig at aol.com)
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> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 22:36:25 -0400
> From: "Jane Lowell" <jel42 at comcast.net>
> Subject: [MassHistPres] cobbler's shop
> To: <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
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> The Town of Mendon was deeded a Cobbler's Shop by a 40 B developer. It
> was
> built c. 1850 and the Mendon Historical Commission would like to restore
> it. The roof needs shingling, although no daylight can be seen, there are
> panes missing from the windows and there is a slight amount of rot on the
> floor boards, a couple of rafters, and one sill. It is a two story
> structure consisting of the main shop and two rooms with dirt floors
> below.
> The floor joists seem ok. All of us on the Historical Commission are new
> at this. Of course funding is almost nonexistant. Does anyone have
> suggestions on how to proceed? We really don't want to make any grave
> errors. Regards, Jane Lowell, Mendon Historical Commissioner
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> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 23:20:00 -0400
> From: "Jack Authelet" <jauthelet at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] cobbler's shop
> To: "'Jane Lowell'" <jel42 at comcast.net>, <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
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> Jane,
>
>
>
> You have already made one major decision that is very much in your favor,
> and that is to ask for help and suggestions when in unfamiliar territory.
>
>
>
> My humble suggestion, which has worked many times over, would be to:
>
> 1. Do you research. When was it built, by whom, anything you can
> find
> to build a case for saving the structure.
>
> 2. Bring the public on board. Use your local media, web page,
> whatever
> means you have to share the story, publish photographs, build the case
> for
> preservation.
>
> 3. Establish ownership (municipal or a non-profit group) for tax
> purposes.
>
> 4. If the structure is eligible for National Register listing, it
> might quality for matching funds.
>
> 5. Invite local contractors - those with expertise - to join you in
> your project, giving them recognition for donated time and labor.
>
> 6. Set up a special fund to which the public can donate, make
> memorial
> gifts, whatever.
>
> 7. Establish an end use for the structure when the restoration is
> complete.
>
>
>
> I believe your chances for success improve each time you are able to
> broaden
> the base of people willing to 'buy' into the project with their time,
> talent, donations, whatever.
>
> You can make this work.
>
>
>
> Jack Authelet
>
> Foxborough Town Historian
>
>
>
> From: masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu
> [mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu] On Behalf Of Jane Lowell
> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 10:36 PM
> To: masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
> Subject: [MassHistPres] cobbler's shop
>
>
>
> The Town of Mendon was deeded a Cobbler's Shop by a 40 B developer. It
> was
> built c. 1850 and the Mendon Historical Commission would like to restore
> it.
> The roof needs shingling, although no daylight can be seen, there are
> panes
> missing from the windows and there is a slight amount of rot on the floor
> boards, a couple of rafters, and one sill. It is a two story structure
> consisting of the main shop and two rooms with dirt floors below. The
> floor
> joists seem ok. All of us on the Historical Commission are new at this.
> Of
> course funding is almost nonexistant. Does anyone have suggestions on how
> to proceed? We really don't want to make any grave errors. Regards, Jane
> Lowell, Mendon Historical Commissioner
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> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 14:02:23 -0500
> From: "Marcia Starkey" <mdstarkey at crocker.com>
> Subject: [MassHistPres] workshops
> To: "MassHistPres" <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
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> Hello,
>
> As you know, workshops on a variety of topics are being held across the
> Commonwealth for local historical commissioners. My experience has been
> that these are very helpful both with assessing how specific preservation
> tools fit with needs and community priorities in Greenfield, and as an
> opportunity to ask (sometimes wierd) questions.
>
> I also wonder if these workshops should include a system of recognition
> or
> "accreditation" for this municipal training which can result in enhanced
> local government status, leading to more weight.
>
> Conservation Commissions, Planning and Zoning Boards, Building and Health
> Departments as well as Assessors have standards and training. Why not HCs
> and LHDCs?
>
> Marcia Starkey, Greenfield HC
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> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:24:34 EDT
> From: BMangum411 at aol.com
> Subject: [MassHistPres] Tour of the Somerville Milk Row Cemetery
> tonight, 6:30PM
> To: somartscouncil at yahoogroups.com, masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
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> The City of Somerville and Historic Somerville, Inc. will continue to
> celebrate May as Preservation Month with a tour of historic Milk Row
> Cemetery,
> 1804- about 1900. This cemetery was founded by Samuel Tufts on his farm
> in
> what was then Charlestown. It is quite small, but contains an
> extraordinary
> memorial to those who died from Somerville in the Civil War. The
> memorial
>
> was dedicated in 1863, prior to the war's end.
>
> Milk Row Cemetery is located in Somerville, at 439 Somerville Avenue, next
> to Demoulas' Market Basket. The tour will last about an hour. We will
> meet at the front gate.
> Hope to see you there!
> Barbara Mangum
> President
> Historic Somerville, Inc.
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> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 08:18:10 EDT
> From: Ttorwig at aol.com
> Subject: [MassHistPres] Boston Early Modern
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> _http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/05/24/a_look_a
>
> t_the_hub_of_early_moderns/?page=full_
> (
> http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/05/24/a_look_at_the_hub_of_early_moderns/?page=full
>
> )
> The Observer
> A look at the hub of early moderns
> Bauhaus design found a following in Greater Boston
> By _Sam Allis_
> (
> http://search.boston.com/local/Search.do?s.sm.query=Sam+Allis&camp=localsearch:on:byline:art
> )
> Globe Columnist / May 24, 2009
> Boston has been accused of many things, but being a hotbed of
> distinguished modern architecture is not one of them.
> Chicago, L.A., and Houston, yes, but not the Hub of the Solar System.
> For
>
> the longest time, the city's low skyline was defined by the charming,
> tiresome, red brick of our Colonial past. This was our conceit. We were
> proud
> of it and visitors swooned.
> In the 1980s, we saw a spasm begin of forgettable modern buildings in
> Boston. I'm thinking of ones like One Devonshire Place, the generic
> downtown
> structure of glass and steel. Most of our modern office buildings are
> mediocre. The notable exception is the John Hancock Tower, which everyone
> excoriated when it went up as a blot on our fragile sense of scale.
> But Greater Boston turns out to have been, along with greater Los
> Angeles,
>
> the center of early modernism in this country. Who knew? The Observer
> sure
>
> didn't until Keith Morgan, who teaches the history of architecture at
> Boston University, took me on a tour last week to prove it.
> Early modernism was the revolution in design that ran from the early
> 1930s
>
> through the mid-1950s, influenced heavily by the Bauhaus school in
> Germany
>
> founded by Walter Gropius in 1919. He also founded the influential The
> Architects Collaborative in Cambridge in 1945.
> The Bauhaus design is known for its simple white facades, cubic,
> flat-roofed buildings with great use of ribbon windows. But early
> modernism here
> also drew from Frank Lloyd Wright and modern movements in Europe - thus
> appropriating the broader term "International Style." Whatever you called
> it,
> H.H. Richardson it was not.
> One of the finest examples of Bauhaus in the area is the Gibbs House at 6
> Chilton Street in Brookline, amid rows of Tudor revivalist brick homes.
> Dr
> Frederick and Erna Gibbs vacationed in Germany in the 1930s and were
> smitten by the Bauhaus design. They returned with a mission to replicate
> here
> what they saw there. Architect Samuel Glazer designed a beauty - a
> substantial home with white concrete facade, flat-roofed, full of square
> glass blocks
> that must have stunned everyone else on Chilton.
> I say "Greater Boston" about early modernism because most of the prime
> examples are located in the suburbs north and west of the city - places
> like
> Lexington, Belmont, and Lincoln. Lexington has more examples of early
> modernism than any other community, says Morgan. "One project spawned
> another,"
> he says.
> Morgan showed me the Lexington enclaves of Six Moon Hill Road, built in
> the late 1940s, and the larger Peacock Farm development, begun in the
> early
> 1950s. Also the smaller Belmont community on Snake Hill Road, where the
> noted architect Carl Koch designed nine homes, including one for himself,
> in
> the early 1940s. These are small wooden, flat-roofed houses in earth
> tones
>
> and a lot of glass to merge with landscape.
> All of these suburban enclaves were designed to accommodate young
> professionals and their families entering postwar society. We're talking
> artists,
> academics, fellow architects, engineers - people on tight budgets - who
> wanted to live in nature. These houses look small today, inside and out.
> The
> Gropius house in Lincoln, a National Historic Landmark, is all of 2,400
> square feet. I found it claustrophobic. But then small houses are in
> vogue
> now,
> as we move to what architect and early modernism preservationist Gary
> Wolff
> calls "the not so big house" with a small carbon footprint.
> At least these early moderns improved on the traditional Cape house, a
> small, depressing structure notorious for dark, cramped rooms, low
> ceilings,
> and tiny windows. The modern house had more open space, better light.
> What
>
> space it had was flexible, and linked with the environment. "They were
> very
> Yankee," says Morgan. "They were cheap, small 20th-century equivalents of
> the houses of the first settlers."
> I wouldn't have looked twice at the aging wooden houses on Snake Hill
> Road
>
> had Morgan not explained their significance. By now, they appear
> nondescript and insubstantial. Many of the early moderns look a bit
> rundown, and,
> says Morgan, maintenance can be a problem with them. Beyond that, the
> early
> moderns became victims of their own success and increasingly produced
> yawns.
> The early modern movement didn't stop in the mid-1950s so much as lose
> its
>
> early purity. It got modified, endlessly, over time. For example, deck
> houses, whose bloodlines run straight back to the early modern movement,
> became as common as the Golden Arches of McDonald's
> Or worse. In 1964, Peabody Terrace, the ghastly modern housing for
> married
>
> Harvard students along Memorial Drive appeared, the progeny of the early
> moderns. Morgan tells me it actually won awards. I speak for many in
> declaring it one of the major eyesores in the Western Hemisphere.
> And then came the challenge to the early moderns in the 1970s by the
> preservationist juggernaut that arose to protect much older buildings of
> historical significance. It remains much easier to gather support to
> preserve an
> early 18th-century home than an early modern one appreciated by a
> relative
>
> few.
> Still, Boston wasn't the flop I assumed when it comes to modern
> architecture. It was an incubator of early modernism. But like so much
> else in the
> city and its surroundings, someone has to tell you it's there in the
> first
>
> place.
> Sam Allis can be reached at _allis at globe.com_ (mailto:allis at globe.com) .
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