Our Commonwealth - February News From Preservation Massachusetts
Our Commonwealth
Preservation Across Massachusetts
February 2009
In This Issue
Annual Appeal Thank You!Internships/Jobs ListingContribute to Our CommonwealthA Day In the Life of a Circuit RiderAnnual Meeting 2009Meet Our New Board Members and StaffWhere Are They Now?- Fort Point ChannelWhere Are They Now? Fairhaven MillsMark Your Calendar!
Greetings!
I'd like to first thank everyone who attended our very successful AnnualMeeting this past January 29th. The evening's agenda was packed withgreat information from several of our preservation partners and thesetting in the Undercroft of Trinity Church was absolutely spectacular.Many thanks to Ellen Lipsey, Wendy Nicholas and Carl Jay forproviding such wonderful talks.The Annual Meeting is not only a great vehicle for networking but it alsogives Preservation Massachusetts the opportunity to set out and publicizeour busy set of priorities for the coming year. In keeping with our e-newsletter format, I hope you take the time to read the latest article by ourCircuit Rider, Michele Barker. Michele is a wealth of knowledge andinformation and the response PM has received from the last CircuitRider article was overwhelmingly positive.Preservation Massachusetts hopes that you enjoy Our Commonwealthand that you find it useful with announcements of upcoming events aswell as helpful articles from across the Commonwealth. I would like totake a moment and thank Anulfo Baez our Office Manager for preparing
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Our Commonwealth - February News From Preservation Massachusetts
Preservation MassachusettsBoard of Directors
Claudia S. Wu - ChairJack Hodgkins -Vice ChairDouglas Kelleher - Clerk Phil A. Madonia- Treasurer James G. Alexander, FAIAPamela BaileyDaniel R. BenoitThomas F. BirminghamJean Carroon, FAIAKara CicchettiStuart GregermanFrank T. KeefeTodd McCabeJames McDermottMichael H. RosenbergYanni TsipisRita WalshFran Weld
Staff
James W. IgoePresident Erin D. A. KellyAssistant Director Anulfo G. BaezOffice Manager Elsa FitzgeraldSpecial Projects Manager Lorelle CarlsonIntern
Circuit Riders
Michele P. BarkerAnne DodgeDorr Fox
the e-newsletter and getting it out in a timely fashion - no easy trick witheverything that's going on in our office.
A Day in the Life of a Circuit Rider: Michele Barker
WHEN THE CALL COMES TOO LATE...Community Preservation CoalitionExecutive Director Stuart Saginor hasdescribed us Circuit Riders as "...Superman(or Superwoman) arriving on the scene inthe nick of time to rescue historic assets allover the Commonwealth!" While that's very,very flattering, it can also be very hard tolive up to! Daring last-minute rescues makefor great graphic novels, but in real life, thatlast-minute call is as likely to result in abulldozed building as a nick-of-time save.At staff meetings, we three Circuit Riders often find ourselves sharingstories about the call that comes after the demolition delay has expired,or a few hours before town meeting, or when a dispute between adeveloper and a preservation organization has grown so rancorous thatcommunication seems impossible, never mind compromise.In Wellesley, I got the call from the Historical Commission that barelyhad time to salvage some beams, windows, and flooring before a countryclub demolished the town's original almshouse and town hall. In Dover,the call came to Dorr after demolition delay had expired on the oldesthouse in town. And in Topsfield, Anne got the call from a resident wholearned belatedly that the Historical Commission didn't pass demo delayon a house located between the edges of the town's historic district andits commercial district. In spite of the caller's efforts and Anne's
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Our Commonwealth - February News From Preservation Massachusetts
Support PreservationMassachusetts!
Preservation Massachusetts is entirelysupported by our Corporate andIndividual Members and Foundations.Find out about Corporate benefits,events, programsand take an active role in preservingour Commonwealth. Join today!
PM Members Answer Call forAnnual Appeal!
Thanks to the generosity andsupport of thefollowing members for theAnnual Appeal. If you haven'thad an opportunity to make a taxdeductible donation and wouldstill like to please click here.PreservationMassachusetts would like tosend a sincere Thank You to thefollowing members for theirgenerous contributions to theAnnual Appeal:
ADD Inc.James G. AlexanderBarbara BashevkinBruce S. CohenLeslie DonovanWendy Nicholas DorseyGregory J. and Beth GoldmanGalerJack I. GlassmanMatthew J. Kiefer and NanPorterWilliam B. KingSamuel B. Knight, Jr.Christine Kwitchoff Ellen J. LipseyDavid L. Feigenbaum and
assistance, within a month the house was gone. That last-minute alert is often unavoidable. Our members have probablyall encountered communities where nothing short of a crisis will stirresidents into action to save resources that they've taken for granted alltheir lives. Preservation Massachusetts' "Most Endangered" list, forexample, has been a powerful tool for preservation. Of the 156 resourcesnamed over the last fifteen years, nearly two-thirds are saved or inprogress. And sometimes the preservation crisis can even happen in spite of everyone's best efforts. Take the case Dorr worked on in Martha'sVineyard, in which a property owner demolished an Oak BluffsMethodist Campground cottage in spite of being forbidden to do so. Bythe time a neighbor called to stop the process, little was left but thefaçade.
While the crisis call will probably always be a major part of our jobs, ourrole as Circuit Riders is also to help communities build the disaster-preparedness skills to foresee and avoid the next crisis or, when a crisisis unavoidable, to have the know-how and the confidence to win thatfinal showdown. So when you're talking up the Circuit Rider program,let communities know that there doesn't have to be a crisis for them tocall us. Calling your friendly local Circuit Rider is kind of like voting inold-time Chicago-it's best to do it early and often!
As thrilled as we are to be compared to superheroes, we're even morethrilled to be building a statewide network of preservation superheroesready to meet the next crisis long after that Circuit Rider has ridden off into the sunset.
Before and After of
59 Main Street in Topsfield, Anne Dodge
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