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

[Francesca Arsenault]

Hi there,

Here is a project of affordable housing in Acton, MA--the old Acton
Boxborough High School.

https://www.rent.com/massachusetts/acton-apartments/old-high-school-commons-4-100046150

Fran Arsenault
Acton Historic District Commission
cell-617-633-1403

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:44 AM Barbara Search <basearch945 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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