[MassHistPres] PRESENT, ONGOING, LATE 19TH-20TH CENTURY SCHOOL BUILDING REUSE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

[Barbara Search]

Hello Richard,
Sturbridge has a beautiful 1870's brick Italianate schoolhouse currently
used as a senior center that will likely be abandoned in a few years to
relocate the senior center to a new building.  It has been determined to be
potentially eligible for the National Register but may become an individual
local historic district. Hopefully, the community will see it's historic
value and decide to use it for another purpose - possible extension of town
offices, art and culture center, community center.

We lost a historic agricultural exhibition hall to CVS a couple of years
ago.  At that time we had a six-month demolition delay so there was not
much time to gather enough community support to make an impact.  Community
support is the key.

Wishing you success.

Barbara A. Search, member
Sturbridge Historical Commission

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 8:13 AM Richard McGrath <
mastermasonmcgrath at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings. I am looking for a community that has an in progress  reuse
> rehab project of an old school building that I could use as a model to
> present to the town of Lunenburg as an alternative to the demolition of our
> early 20th century primary school.. Presently conveyance of the idea of
> such a building having any use, despite many past examples of the reuse of
> old school buildings in surrounding communities, has been unsuccessful. I
> thought that if I had an example from a city or town that had an old school
> that was presently in the act of being rehabbed, people might be able to
> relate to the idea better........if they thought it was a worthwhile idea
> to save and reuse the old school, then why can't we?
>
> Regards,
> Richard McGrath, Chair, Lunenburg APDC
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