[MassHistPres] Local Preservation Update E-Newsletter - March 29, 2010

[Skelly, Christopher @ SEC]

LOCAL PRESERVATION UPDATE E-NEWSLETTER

Published by the Massachusetts Historical Commission

March 29, 2010

 

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> 

 

ONLINE MHC INVENTORY FORMS NOW UNDERWAY 

MHC has recently started to link pdfs of scanned inventory forms and
jpeg photos from MHCs files to its online MACRIS database.   We are
working our way alphabetically backwards through the towns, and we will
be adding material to the site continuously as scanning continues.  The
site itself has a number of new links explaining the features we have
added, so have a look at a "W" town to see how the new images and
interface work. Go to http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcidx.htm
<http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcidx.htm>   and click on the Search
MACRIS Database link at the bottom of the middle column. If your town is
toward the beginning of the alphabet, have patience, we'll get to you!
We welcome your feedback and comments. Work on this project has been
supported in part by a competitively awarded Preserve America grant to
MHC from the Department of Interior, National Park Service. 

 

STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION PLAN 2011-2015

The first public meeting on the 2011-2015 State Historic Preservation
Plan is scheduled for Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 4pm at Wistariahurst
Museum in Holyoke, MA.  Two additional meetings in eastern Massachusetts
are planned for the months of May and June with locations to be
determined.  

 

NEW LISTINGS IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES

Gloucester, First Parish Burial Ground

Groton, Groton High School

Lowell, St. Joseph's Roman Catholic College for Boys

Weymouth, Pond Street School

 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS AND DATES TO REMEMBER

April 1, 2010

Workshop on Demolition Delay Bylaws, Hampden.  7pm.  For more
information, contact Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us
<mailto:Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us> 

April 9, 2010

Round 16 Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund grant applications due
at the Massachusetts Historical Commission.   

April 14, 2010

Workshop on Demolition Delay Bylaws, Princeton.  7pm.  For more
information, contact Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us
<mailto:Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us> 

April 27, 2010

State Historic Preservation Plan 2011-2015 Public Meeting.
Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA.  4pm.  

May 8. 2010

Community Preservation Act Regional Workshop, Northampton.  For more
information, visit http://www.communitypreservation.org/index.cfm
<http://www.communitypreservation.org/index.cfm> 

 

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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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