Maintaining Your Old House, Online Lecture Join Historic New England on July 14th at 5:30 pm for a webinar on Maintaining Your Old House. Using examples from Historic New England's Preservation Easement Program, this online lecture delves into what to look for when inspecting the interior and exterior of your home. Examples focus on a variety of materials, architectural styles, and building sizes, as well as providing information about caring for significant landscape featu

WOW! Our Preservation Conversation on historic New England stone walls broke records for attendance, proving that there are a lot of you interested and invested in the preservation of these uniquely New England "landforms". Our guest speaker, Robert Thorson, professor, author of several books including Stone by Stone and founder of The Stone Wall Initiative gave an incredible and educational presentation and we are very grateful for his participation. And if you enjoyed this

What started as a Preservation Massachusetts "pop-up" office hour has turned into over 10 weeks of discussion, exchange, information sharing and great connections on a variety of preservation topics. Thank you to all who have participated live or watched our Preservation Conversations on YouTube! We want to hear your feedback so we can keep offering "conversation" topics that are useful, timely, meaningful and beneficial to all who are involved with historic preservation in a

We have all discovered the joys of virtual meeting platforms, like Zoom and GoTo Meeting. It's allowed us to meet despite social distancing, but it has also allowed meetings to easily be recorded and accessed again and again for reference or by those unable to attend in person. PM is pleased to be able to host on our website materials for the Western MA Historic Commissions Coalition and we are excited to now host their first virtual meeting recording! Visit the WMHCC page t

To view the original e-newsletter online, click here. Our Commonwealth: June 2020 A Different View When we last saw this view from Cole's Hill overlooking Plymouth harbor, it was very different. It was mid-March, cold, dreary and we had no idea it would be nearly three months before we could even begin to imagine seeing it, or our office again. The picture we take of this view now may appear to be the same, but so much about it is different. And rightly so. As preservati

Western Massachusetts Historical Commission Coalition Topic: Local Preservation Success Stories Tuesday, June 9, 2020 10:00 am THIS WILL BE A VIRTUAL MEETING HOSTED ON ZOOM Hosted by the Franklin Regional Council of Governments The meeting will feature the following presenters: Walter Ramsey, Montague Town Planner, Transformation ThroughHistoric Rehab in Millers Falls This project involved the complete rehabilitation of three blighted, mixed-use buildings in the core of this

Our Preservation Conversations will take place weekly throughout June! See below for our topics (some are still tentative), connection details and scheduling for the summer months. June 3 "Show Me The Money - Preservation Grants" - Special Guest Participants - MHC Grants Staff (available on YouTube and our website). June 10 "The Floor is Yours? Q&A and Open Forum Discussion" with PM Staff June 17 "Show Me The Money- Historic Tax Credits"- Tentative June 24 - "Historic Stone W

Like so many, we are struggling to come to terms with what we are witnessing across the United States. Words do not convey our sorrow and dismay at the events that have led us here, from the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis to the violent outbursts overshadowing the peaceful protests and causing damage to our communities that goes beyond shattered windows. We know that we, as a nation, are at a tipping point and this is a time where words must be followed by action and