[MassHistPres] Help: Question about Applicability of Demo Delay Bylaw for Demo of a Barn's Stone Foundation

[franksmalabar at gmail.com]

Hi,

 

I strongly agree.no question you have jurisdiction over barn and
foundation..of a Historically Significant Structure. We do not allow
piecemeal review of a structure and parts when the basic structure
requirements of Demo Delay Bylaw.

 

Frank Messina

 

Chairman, Chatham Historical Commission 

 

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Primer
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Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Help: Question about Applicability of Demo Delay
Bylaw for Demo of a Barn's Stone Foundation

 

Hello

Weston's Demo Delay bylaw references the inclusion of any part of any
building, any part of which was built pre 1945. I'd imagine that Sudbury's
is similar. If the Commission determines that the barn is Significant, it
would stand then to reason that the Demo Delay could be imposed to protect
the very foundation of that building. 

As an aside, during my years on the Weston HC, we voted many times to
designate outbuildings Significant. They are more endangered even than our
historic houses and important to the fabric of our towns. 

Good luck. 

ALICIA PRIMER via iPhone 

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Cell: 781-771-9510

Groton Long Point: 860-536-0035

 

 

"The greenest building is the one already built." Carl Elefante

 

ALICIA PRIMER via iPhone

 

 

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Subject: [MassHistPres] Help: Question about Applicability of Demo Delay
Bylaw for Demo of a Barn's Stone Foundation 

 

The Sudbury Historical Commission is deliberating whether or not a type of
partial demolition is subject to our Demolition Delay Bylaw. We would
appreciate feedback from others on this listserv.  

 

The property in question (MACRIS SUD.58) is an 18th Century Federal house
with an old stone foundation  - with several outbuildings including a
"barn".  The structure in question is the barn - its stone foundation is to
be removed and replaced with a poured concrete foundation, but no work on
the body of the structure qualifies as a partial demo. The inventory only
provides information that the barn "...is not as old as house" and "...is
not original but was built with wood from an old New Hampshire barn". 

 

Does the demolition of the current foundation require that it be subject to
the demo bylaw? 

 

It seems that if the structure itself is found to not be "historically
significant" then even though the foundation may be determined to be an old
foundation, perhaps original to a structure previously sitting on top of it,
then the removal of the barn's stone foundation would not be subject to the
Demo bylaw? On the other hand if the barn structure were to be determined by
the Commission to be historically significant then the demo bylaw would
apply?

 

Diana Warren

Sudbury Historical Commission 

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