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

[Dennis De Witt]

There are dozens of examples of the reuse of schools for housing, often senior housing, and municipal offices and other uses done with tax act funding which means they have to be on the NR.  I don’t know if Chris has a list.  You might search Macris for schools of that period that are on the NR and have been converted.

Dennis De Witt
Brookline

> On Feb 19, 2021, at 9:11 AM, sally milne <urbanosally at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am also interested as we have a similar situation and schoolhouse to save.
> Sally Urbano
> Captains’ Row
> West Harwich
> 
>> On Feb 18, 2021, at 11:57 PM, 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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