[MassHistPres] Local Preservation Update E-Newsletter-February 14, 2011

[Skelly, Christopher @ SEC]

LOCAL PRESERVATION UPDATE E-NEWSLETTER

Published by the Massachusetts Historical Commission

February 14, 2011

 

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 2011 PRESERVATION AWARDS

The nomination form for the 33rd Annual 2011 Massachusetts Historical
Commission Preservation Awards can be found at
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcpdf/Awards_Form_2011.pdf
<http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcpdf/Awards_Form_2011.pdf> .  Awards
are presented annually to preservation projects or individuals that have
displayed an outstanding commitment to historic preservation in
Massachusetts.   The deadline for nomination submittals is Tuesday,
March 1, 2011.    

 

NEW NATIONAL REGISTER BROCHURE FROM NPS

The National Park Service has created a new poster sized color brochure
all about the National Register of Historic Places including how
properties are evaluated, criteria considerations, how properties are
listed, revitalization opportunities and a nationwide map of listings by
county.  The poster can be found at this address:
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/publications/bulletins/NR_Brochure_Poster/
NR_Brochure_Poster.pdf
<http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/publications/bulletins/NR_Brochure_Poster
/NR_Brochure_Poster.pdf> .  Note that the poster is over 10MB to
download.  

 

FOCUS ON A COMMUNITY - HADLEY

The western Massachusetts town of Hadley, located in the rich farmland
of the Connecticut River Valley, has an agricultural past and present.
For successive generations, Hadley families have been very active in
placing Agricultural Preservation Restrictions on their farmland as a
means of keeping it in agricultural use.  With more than 2,400 acres
committed, Hadley has preserved more land than any other community in
the program.  Maintaining this agricultural heritage into the future is
a principal task of the Hadley Historical Commission.  In 2009, as part
of the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the founding of Hadley,
the Hadley Historical Commission launched a survey of the town's barns
and farm landscapes. Drawing on Community Preservation Act funds, the
commission, with the assistance of a professional preservation
consultant, documented over one hundred structures on a wide range of
farms.  During the year, local farmers joined the commission and the
consultant on two bus tours around town sharing their knowledge in a
traveling oral history project that could then be incorporated into the
barn documentation.  The project identified two of the principal
builders of tobacco barns active in Hadley in the 1930s, clarified the
changing uses of barns over time and provided unrecorded family farming
history for the project.  The results of the barn survey have been
presented in a lecture and will soon be available on a website and in a
book of photos.  Do you have a project you'd like to share with the
local commissions around the Commonwealth?  Email your ideas to
Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us <mailto:Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us> .


 

NEW LISTINGS IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES

Weymouth, Front Street Historic District

 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS AND DATES TO REMEMBER

February 18, 2011

Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund grant workshop.  Boston.    For
more information, visit http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/
<http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/> 

March 1, 2011

Massachusetts Historical Commission Preservation Awards Nominations are
due.  

March 4, 2011

Historic New England's Ask the Experts Old House Clinic:  Energy
Retrofits for Your Older or Historic Home.  Haverhill.  For more
information and to register, visit:
http://shop.historicnewengland.org/p-6778-energyretrofits-for-your-older
-or-historic-home.aspx
<http://shop.historicnewengland.org/p-6778-energyretrofits-for-your-olde
r-or-historic-home.aspx> 

March 25, 2011

Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund Round 17 applications are due. 

April 2, 2011

Community Preservation Act Conference.  Bridgewater.  For more
information, visit http://www.communitypreservation.org/index.cfm
<http://www.communitypreservation.org/index.cfm> 

 

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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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