[MassHistPres] Historic ironwork preservation and fabrication

Fri Apr 17 16:08:33 EDT 2015

We are midway through our town cast iron cemetery fence
restoration (original 1852), and are happy to be working with:

*DeAngelis Iron Work, Inc.*
305 Depot Street
PO Box 350
South Easton, MA 02375
http://www.deangelisiron.com/

Joe Bourneuf
Essex Historical Commission
Essex, MA. 02129

On Friday, April 17, 2015, Kara Chisholm <kchisholm at quincyma.gov
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kchisholm at quincyma.gov');>> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The City of Quincy is looking into doing a restoration project on its
> historic Hancock Street iron fence at the Hancock Cemetery. Does anyone
> have
> any historic ironwork preservationist and fabricator recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kara Chisholm
> Assistant Planner
> City of Quincy
> 34 Coddington Street, 3rd Floor
> Quincy, MA 02169
> 617-376-1050
> kchisholm at quincyma.gov
>
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>    1. Local Building Codes & Historic Structures: MVCMA on Martha's
>       Vineyard (Ferriell, Jeffrey)
>    2. Re: Local Building Codes & Historic Structures: MVCMA on
>       Martha's Vineyard (Stowell, Stephen)
>    3. Request for names of grant writers (Susan Munafo)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:07:09 +0000
> From: "Ferriell, Jeffrey" <JFerriell at law.capital.edu>
> Subject: [MassHistPres] Local Building Codes & Historic Structures:
>         MVCMA on Martha's Vineyard
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> Good afternoon
>
> I'm the President of the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association, in Oak
> Bluffs. There are over 300 historic Victorian cottages on the grounds of
> the
> MVCMA, and we are a National Historic Landmark.
>
> A new building inspector has decided that we can't replace our historic
> porch and balcony railings with railings shorter than what the code
> requires
> (36" I think).  There are bound to be other similar issues (e.g., egress
> windows), in the future.
>
> The MVCMA is not part of the Oak Bluffs, "Cottage City" historic district
> and thus is not governed by a municipal "historic preservation" ordinance.
> But, we have our own, private historic preservation rule and follow the
> Dept. of Interior Guidelines, partially to maintain our Landmark status and
> partially just to maintain the historic architectural features of the
> buildings on our land, because we believe that it is the right thing to do
> and preserves features of our buildings that help make it a distinct
> community.
>
> Can anyone provide me with some guidance about how to approach this. I'll
> be
> happy to hear from you on the list of off, either at
> jferriell at law.capital.edu<mailto:jferriell at law.capital.edu> or at
> president at mvcma.org<mailto:president at mvcma.org>
>
> We're planning to meet with the building inspector, but would like to
> gather
> as much information about how this problem may have been handled in other
> areas as possible.
>
> Thanks for any assistance you can supply.
>
> Jeff Ferriell
> President, MVCMA
> 8 Cottage Park
>
> --
> Jeffrey T. Ferriell
> Professor of Law
> Capital University Law School
> 303 E. Broad Street
> Columbus, OH 43215
>
> 614.236.6683 (office)
> 614.444.3994 (home)
> 508.6969.1984 (Martha's Vineyard)
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> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:42:12 -0400
> From: "Stowell, Stephen" <Sstowell at lowellma.gov>
> Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Local Building Codes & Historic
>         Structures: MVCMA on Martha's Vineyard
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> The exact section is escaping me at the moment but the Massachusetts
> Building Code exempts certain features of historic buildings from strict
> code compliance.  I seem to recall historic railings are one such item that
> are exempt for those properties that are NR/NHL listed and not otherwise in
> a local review district such as seems the case here.  I've used this
> exemption in the past several years ago when a property owner in one of our
> neighborhood National Register districts was being told the same thing in
> Martha's Vineyard regarding railings and we were able to get the historic
> railings retained.
>
> Perhaps someone who is more in tune with the code can provide some
> additional specifics.  Thanks!
>
> --------
> Stephen Stowell
> Administrator
> Lowell Historic Board
> Lowell City Hall
> 375 Merrimack Street
> Lowell, MA  01852
> (978) 674-1443
> (978) 446-7103 fax
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> From: masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu
> [mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu] On Behalf Of Ferriell, Jeffrey
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:07 PM
> To: 'masshistpres at cs.umb.edu'
> Subject: [MassHistPres] Local Building Codes & Historic Structures: MVCMA
> on
> Martha's Vineyard
>
> Good afternoon
>
> I'm the President of the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association, in Oak
> Bluffs. There are over 300 historic Victorian cottages on the grounds of
> the
> MVCMA, and we are a National Historic Landmark.
>
> A new building inspector has decided that we can't replace our historic
> porch and balcony railings with railings shorter than what the code
> requires
> (36" I think).  There are bound to be other similar issues (e.g., egress
> windows), in the future.
>
> The MVCMA is not part of the Oak Bluffs, "Cottage City" historic district
> and thus is not governed by a municipal "historic preservation" ordinance.
> But, we have our own, private historic preservation rule and follow the
> Dept. of Interior Guidelines, partially to maintain our Landmark status and
> partially just to maintain the historic architectural features of the
> buildings on our land, because we believe that it is the right thing to do
> and preserves features of our buildings that help make it a distinct
> community.
>
> Can anyone provide me with some guidance about how to approach this. I'll
> be
> happy to hear from you on the list of off, either at
> jferriell at law.capital.edu<mailto:jferriell at law.capital.edu> or at
> president at mvcma.org<mailto:president at mvcma.org>
>
> We're planning to meet with the building inspector, but would like to
> gather
> as much information about how this problem may have been handled in other
> areas as possible.
>
> Thanks for any assistance you can supply.
>
> Jeff Ferriell
> President, MVCMA
> 8 Cottage Park
>
> --
> Jeffrey T. Ferriell
> Professor of Law
> Capital University Law School
> 303 E. Broad Street
> Columbus, OH 43215
>
> 614.236.6683 (office)
> 614.444.3994 (home)
> 508.6969.1984 (Martha's Vineyard)
>
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> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:19:27 -0400
> From: "Susan Munafo" <spmunafo at gmail.com>
> Subject: [MassHistPres] Request for names of grant writers
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> If you know of someone who can help us rewrite a grant on a very short
> timeline (we have the submission from last year so all we need to do is
> update and improve)  please let me know.
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> Thank you!
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> Susan Post Munafo
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> Swampscott Historical Commission
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