Ramblings 2011

RAMBLINGS

An Annual Publication of The Nantucket Preservation Trust Vol. V • 2011

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Welcome The Nantucket Preservation Trust is proud to present its fifth edition of Ramblings.

This annual publication, which is available each year at our July Summer Kitchens House Tour, serves as a year-round resource guide for owners of historic ­properties, visitors, and the architectural-history buff. In fact, we’ve been told that each ­issue of Ramblings has become a collector’s item for those who enjoy the historic ­character of the island.

Our aim in publishing Ramblings is to educate the public about Nantucket’s rich architectural heritage and to encourage the island tradition of historic preservation.

We hope this issue of Ramblings engages your interest and provides you with new information about the island’s history and architecture. We also hope that we can continue to count on you to help protect this special place.

We encourage you to contact us if you have questions or comments about the guide or our work. We welcome your participation as a volunteer and/or member, and we invite you to visit us at our new offices at 55 Main Street.

Michael May Executive Director

Main Street , circa 1930s

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NPT Board of Directors Executive Committee Christopher Mortenson President Ken Beaugrand 1st Vice President David Brown 2nd Vice President Thomas Richards Treasurer Pam Waller Secretary Nancy Forster Personnel

Directors Kathy Arvay Samuel Bailey Mary Randolph Ballinger Dabney Bowen Christopher Dallmus Mary Helen Fabacher Susan Zises Green Mark Hubbard Carol Kinsley Lyman Perry Maureen Phillips Marcia Richards Esta-Lee Stone Lydia Sussek Suellen Ward

Staff Michael May Executive Director Ema Hudson Events and Membership Associate Henry Ian Pass, Esq. Counsel

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Ramblings •

Vol V • 2011

Table of Contents

Let Us Show You What’s Possible

Annual Summer Kitchens House Tour Historic Milk Street Neighborhood

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Interiors Matter...

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The Nantucket Lean-to House

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NPT Annual Meeting Sharon N. Lorenzo, Guest Speaker

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Preservation Awards Honoring NPT’s 2011 Recipients

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NPT Architectural Preservation Fund

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Preservation Tools

InterviewingYour Old House

House Markers

House Histories

Preservation Easements

Sustainable Guidelines

Architectural Tours

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August Fête Give Me Liberty!

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The History of the Coffin School

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Just for Fun

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NPT Membership Information

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Ramblings echoes the spirit of a guide first published in 1947 titled, Rambling through the Streets and Lanes of Nantucket,

by Edouard A. Stackpole.

Cover photo: 8 Pine Street by Kristen Weber Historic images courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association Copyright © 2011 Nantucket Preservation Trust

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The Nantucket Preservation Trust NPT is a membership nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection of Nantucket’s sense of place.

OUR BELIEF Nantucket’s historic architecture is a unique and ­valuable asset that makes the island ­special.

OUR GOAL To preserve our architectural heritage for present and future generations to enjoy.

OUR PROGRAMS To educate, inspire, and ­encourage historic ­preservation across the island.

OUR HOPE That you will join us in working to ­preserve our past.

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OUR PROGRAMS

Annual Speakers Program • Apprenticeships and Scholarships • Architectural ­Studies and Surveys • Architectural Investigations • Architectural Lectures • Architectural Renderings • August Fête • Brief, Concise, and Comprehensive House ­Histories • Historic District Commission Testimonies • Historic Research • House Markers • House Resource Assistance • Interior Surveys • Interviewing Your Nantucket House • Landmark History Books • Main Street Walking Tours • Marketplace • National Historic Landmark Update • Neighborhood Book Series • Preservation Awards • Preservation ­Easements • Preservation Month • ­Private ­Walking Tours • Ramblings • ’Sconset Architecture and History Tour • Summer ­Kitchens House Tour • Traditional Building Method Demonstrations

Summer kitchens house tour: Historic Milk Street Neighborhood

1 Milk Street, left of the Civil War monument, circa 1930s

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NPT’S ANNUAL SUMMER KITCHENS HOUSE TOUR Visit kitchens, gardens, and more Milk Street Neighborhood Thursday, July 14, 2011 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Milk Street is the site of NPT’s Seventh Annual Summer Kitchens House Tour. The program provides an opportunity to view historic homes and to gather ideas for your future kitchen project. But the tour is more than just kitchens—tour goers learn about the history and architectural elements that make each home special, and they often have the opportunity of ­viewing historic sections of the house as well as private gardens.

Among this year’s highlights is a viewing of the preserved kitchen at the Maria Mitchell Birthplace with its faux wood-grained painted walls. Treats prepared by island chefs will be offered along the way, and participants will be able to shop at our expanded NPT Kitchen Marketplace featuring crafts and unique gifts. Please join us for a peek inside!

MILK STREET NEIGHBORHOOD

Milk Street was most likely, named because it was the early route taken by dairy farms west of town near Hummock Pond to the densely populated part of town where milk was delivered to households and shops. Many early houses are in the area, which once was the center of the local ­government.

The Town House, or court house, was moved from its original location on West Chester Street near No Bottom Pond to the corner of Milk and Main Streets in 1783, and remained the hub of local government until 1836, when the town purchased 2 Union Street, recently the home of the NPT, for that purpose.

1 Milk Street

Mariner Latham Paddack (1780–1837) paid a high price—$840—for this choice piece of real estate in 1810, when he purchased the vacant lot next to the Town House from the four sons of Paul Gardner. Paddack was thirty years old, married to Lydia Coleman, with three children under the age of six, so one would assume that he began construction immediately. The date of 1811 is generally assigned to the dwelling, which is an example of a “­typical” Nantucket house: 2 ½ stories high, with four bays, or openings for 11

windows and doors, on the façade, and a ridge chimney. Paddack and his family lived at One Milk until 1825, but other families lived there longer. From 1827 to 1851, it was the home of well-known merchant William C. Swain, who was married to Joseph Starbuck’s daughter Mary. Her brothers were the owners of the Three Bricks nearby on Main Street, and her sister Eunice was married to William Hadwen, who was in partnership with Nathaniel Barney, married to another sister, Eliza. On both sides of One Milk are newer ­houses, replacing the Town House on the north and a cobbler’s shop on the south.

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In 1809, Joseph Starbuck (1774–1861) built the house on New Dollar Lane just north of his newly constructed spermaceti candle manufactory. He was married to Deborah Gardner, and they were parents of four daughters: Sarah, Eunice, Eliza, and Mary. Their three sons— George, Matthew, and William—were born in the new house, and would later be the beneficiaries of Joseph’s largesse when he built the Three Bricks for them on Main Street. Joseph referred to himself as a butcher when he purchased the property, but he amassed a fortune when he became a candle manufacturer and whale-oil merchant during the heyday of the Nantucket whaling industry. Not a typical house, Joseph’s five-bayed dwelling has a different floor plan, with a central hallway separating a pair of rooms on either side on each floor. Two ridge chimneys serve fireplaces in the eight rooms.

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4 New Dollar Lane

1 Vestal Street

1 Vestal Street: Maria Mitchell Birthplace

Built in 1790, the house at One Vestal was purchased by the Mitchell family in 1818, and Maria was born there that year to schoolmaster William Mitchell and his wife, Lydia Coleman, the fifth of their nine children. The large, lively, intelligent family filled the house with activity, as youngest daughter Phebe later wrote: “. . . there was everything in the home which could amuse and instruct children.” When Maria was eighteen, the family moved to the top floor of the Pacific Bank after William was appointed cashier, and it was from the roof of the bank that she spotted a telescopic comet in 1847 and became famous. The Vestal Street house was sold to William’s brother, Peleg Mitchell, in 1837. In 1903, it was acquired by the Maria Mitchell Association. Now a house-museum, Maria’s birthplace contains many artifacts from the Mitchell family, including Maria’s opera glasses, telescope, and beer mug. The faux-painting in the kitchen, dating back to 1850, is remarkable.

10 Milk Street

We don’t know when James Pinkham (1707–92) built the house at 10 Milk.

He acquired the land from his wife’s father, Samuel Coffin, who died in 1764. In 1788, he sold his dwelling house and barn for “45 pounds lawful money” to boatbuilder Zaccheus Macy, whose own house was at 107 Main Street, not far away. When Macy died in 1797, he left “the house 13

and barn I bought from James Pinkham� to his daughter, Ruth Barnard. His other heirs acquired houses on Gardner Street and Howard Street at the same time, creating a real family neighborhood.

In the late nineteenth century, Henry and Elizabeth Coleman acquired the house, and their oldest son, Horace, later sold it to his sister, Lydia, who was married to Arthur Cook, copublisher of the Inquirer and Mirror; the offices of the paper were just across New Dollar Lane for a number of years. It is interesting to see how the rear section of the house follows the curve of New Dollar Lane.

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14 Milk Street, circa 1880s

14 Milk Street

David Myrick (1777–1818) was lost at sea when he was forty-one years old.

His siblings granted to David’s widow, Peggy, all their interest in the house at 14 Milk Street, which was David’s homestead, built on family land. The first known residents of the house at 14 Milk were David, Peggy, and two children, Frederick and Harriet: the house remained in the Myrick family until 1861.

It is not clear who built the house—it may have been David’s father, ­Andrew Myrick Jr., or his grandfather, who was known as Andrew Myrick the ­shipbuilder. Henry Barnard Worth, author of Nantucket Lands and Land ­Owners, suggests that 14 Milk Street was built in the mid-eighteenth century and probably moved to its current location shortly after the Revolution.

Clay Lancaster, another authority on Nantucket architecture, states that the house was originally a lean-to half-house, converted at some point to a 2 ½ story house. Only three bays wide, it is a smaller version of the typical house.

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4 New mill

The Myrick family owned a number of houses in this part of Milk Street/ New Mill Street in the eighteenth century, but only two remain today— the houses at 14 Milk and 4 New Mill. Four New Mill was built either by Joseph Myrick (1744-91), a mariner who died in the Falkland Islands or by his son, Matthew (1774-1857), a ropemaker, who inherited the land in the 1790s. An example of a “typical Quaker Nantucket” house, it sits on a higher foundation than the other houses in the neighborhood, perhaps to accommodate a beehive oven and kitchen still evident in the basement.

The house was restored in the 1940s by the Whitney family and later purchased by Harry Fraker, whose daughter, Wendy Fraker von Weise, designed and made the tiles—depicting Nantucket flora and fauna—surrounding the kitchen fireplace. The current owners bought the house in 1993, in large measure because the interior had not been significantly altered and included its ­original wide-board flooring, once hidden beneath narrow oak boards but now restored.

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18 Milk Street, 1945

18 Milk Street

In 1804, William Starbuck set off a portion of land east of his dwelling house to his son, Kimbal (1771–1852), a mariner and trader. ­William’s house was removed, but Kimbal’s house, built around 1804, still stands at 18 Milk Street near other Starbuck family houses: ­William’s brother, Thomas, lived at 11 Milk Street, and Thomas’s son Joseph built the house at 4 New Dollar Lane. Like so many houses in this relatively well-preserved neighborhood, 18 Milk is a four-bayed typical house.

Kimbal Starbuck lived at 18 Milk Street until his death in 1852. His daughters, Mary Allen and Sarah B. Folger, sold the house to Mary’s oldest son, William S. Allen, in 1856, and it remained in the Allen family until 1920. From 1920 until 1986 the house belonged to poet Louise W. Brooks and her heirs.

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21 Milk Street, circa 1880s

21 Milk Street

With its small entryway opening directly onto the staircase that winds around the chimney, the house at 21 Milk reveals its age. ­Typical houses of the period have hallways and wider, straight stairs. Although this house is now 2 ½ stories high, it was probably ­originally a lean-to, altered to its present shape sometime in the ­nineteenth century. Silas Gardner (1761–1839), who sold the house in 1797 and is referred to in later deeds as the builder, could not have built the house before about 1780, during the era of “typical” houses. Architectural historian Clay Lancaster suggests that Gardner may have used the frame of an older lean-to, thus creating a transitional house, with elements of both the lean-to and typical styles. Kimbal ­S tarbuck, owner of 18 Milk Street, also owned 21 Milk for about a dozen years (1820–33) before selling it to sisters Mary and Anna Coleman.

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9 New Mill Street, 1945

9 New Mill Street

A housewright from Little Compton, Rhode Island, Rescom ­Palmer moved to Nantucket when he was in his twenties. He ­m arried ­Nantucketer Elizabeth Ray Stubbs in 1804, and purchased the land at the corner of New Mill Street and what was then known as ­C opper Street (now Prospect) in 1808. The house he built circa 1809 is ­atypical, and may be an amalgam of an eighteenth-century house moved to the site, with the addition of new construction. Also unusual are the two front doors: the one facing Prospect Street opens onto old-style winder stairs, while the door on New Mill Street opens onto a hallway with a gracious staircase and parlors on either side, the trim and paneling showcasing Palmer’s handiwork. The house, which had fallen into disrepair, was completely restored in 2000–02 by current owners, who preserved the historic integrity of the house and added a gourmet kitchen. Today, the exterior as well as its ­h istoric interior sections are protected by an NPT preservation easement. npt 19

THE NPT annual Summer Kitchens house tour Thursday, July 14 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Guest Chefs Lulu Powers - private chef and cookbook author Pearl • corazon del mar • boarding house liliana dougan - nantucket pasta goddess leah mojer - Bartlett’s farm

KITCHEN MARKETPLACE 18 milk street NPT’s kitchen marketplace will offer a variety of local crafts and specialty gifts from the following vendors: bartlett’s farm Sage Belber - jewelry by Sage Brooke Boothe Design & Monogramming Cara deHeart Ray - Seaweaver Carla Finn - English Trunk Show Monica Flegg -Recycled pincushions bobbi McPeak Nantucket Bookworks Jane Philippi jeanne van etten - nantucket mermaid

Interiors Matter...

Photo by Michael May

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he historic significance of a building does not stop at the exterior. The interior matters, too. The plan of a house, its features and ­materials, all reflect its history and evolution and contribute to its historic character. On Nantucket, where only the exterior is regulated, what’s inside is frequently overlooked.

An important part of the NPT mission is to demonstrate what is ­possible.

Properly preserved and maintained interiors not only have historic ­significance, they are valuable as real estate assets. Preserving interior ­features of a historic house makes sense financially and is essential for the edification of future generations.

Floor Plans

The original floor plan is essential to defining historic character. Parlors, hallways, and staircases all contribute to the character of the building and should be retained in a preservation project.

In some cases, changes in floor plans are necessary. The appropriateness of interior changes can be analyzed by using a hierarchical approach that “ranks” the significance of spaces in a building. In residential buildings, there are usually “private” and “public” spaces, reflecting the need for formal functional areas and private individual living spaces. For example, stair halls and parlors are often on the main floor, while bedrooms, closets, and service areas are on upper floors or in rear areas.

If changes are desired, character-defining “public” areas should be retained; and the proposed use, program, and plan should not alter those ­primary ­historic spaces. Features and materials such as woodwork, doors, and ­mantels should be treated carefully even in the areas of secondary significance. New baths, closets, and kitchens, for example, might appropriately be placed in ells that have been added to the historic structure or in a new wing.

Design Features, Materials, and Finishes

Floor plans are only part of the historic interior’s character. Wall, ceiling, and floor treatments; doors and door and window trim; fireplaces and their mantels; and other finishes are all important features. Interiors often exhibit a mix of historic styles that reflect changes in use and taste. An early twentieth-century interior that has been placed in a nineteenth-century building, for example, is part of the building’s history and might be worthy of preservation.

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All sound interior features should be retained and repaired. If damaged or deteriorated beyond repair, they should be replaced in-kind. Ceiling height, another important interior feature, helps convey historic character because it defines spatial volume, proportion, and light.

New Interior Construction and Related Demolition

Historic building rehabilitation often requires new construction and ­limited amounts of demolition. This work should take place at secondary or ­nonsignificant spaces to minimize impacts to the historic resource.

New interior work should be compatible with the existing historic ­character.

Exact duplication of historic materials and elements is discouraged to avoid confusion between historic and new. For example, where new walls or other partitions are planned, an appropriate approach is to use new trim ­matching the historic in scale, material, and general profile, rather than ­replicating historic woodwork. Demolition should always be kept to a minimum, and limited to secondary spaces or areas of extreme deterioration. Because demolition can involve the removal of historic material, it should be planned to have the least possible impact on the historic building.

Routine maintenance is a key to preserving interior historic materials; it prevents small problems from becoming large ones. Keeping up with maintenance will preserve your house for many years to come. npt

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Watch an old building with an anxious care; guard it as best you may, and at any cost, from every influence of dilapidation. Count its stones as you would jewels of a crown; set watches about it as if at the gates of a besieged city; bind it together with iron where it loosens; stay it with timber where it ­declines; do not care about the unsightliness of the aid: better a crutch than a lost limb; and do this tenderly, and reverently, and continually, and many a generation will still be born and pass away beneath its shadow.

–John Ruskin “The Lamp of Memory,” from The Seven Lamps of Architecture

John Ruskin (1819–1900) an English art critic, social thinker, poet and artist was a major figure in Victorian England.

His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in Great Britain and America.

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The Nantucket Lean-to house

21 Hussey Street, circa 1890s

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ost people think that the lean-to house was the earliest house form on island, but it wasn’t. The lean-to house is easy to spot—having a full two-story façade, or front elevation, and a one-story rear elevation connected by a long sloping north roof (called a catslide), and a single massive chimney.

Nantucket’s earliest house styles, known as English or Medieval, often evolved into lean-to houses by the addition of a one-story wing. The leanto, like other early house forms, came to Nantucket from the mainland.

The form was so popular that by the first decade of the 1700s most ­houses on Nantucket were constructed with lean-tos incorporated into the ­original design.

The addition of a lean-to or the construction of a house with a lean-to incorporated into the original design (known as the integral lean-to house) occurred because it made sense. The lean-to house provided additional rooms on the first floor, including a keeping room (kitchen) that left the hall and parlor available for other uses besides cooking. Like other early houses, lean-tos were built facing south, thereby providing protection or insulation for the main section’s north side. Early builders knew that placing the lean-to’s long sloping roof to the north helped to direct wind up and over the structure. Clay Lancaster in The Architecture of Historic Nantucket notes that of the forty integral lean-to houses extant about twothirds face southward. Some of those not oriented southward were moved from their original sites.

This functional form remained in favor with Nantucketers for many years.

The construction of integral lean-to houses continued into the mideighteenth century, and it was not until the introduction and acceptance of the typical Nantucket house (see Ramblings, Vol. 4) that the form fell out of fashion. Even so, the lean-to was not abandoned but incorporated into the design of houses including the smaller lean-to (1 ¾ stories high) built from the late eighteenth century and into the first quarter of the ­nineteenth century.

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he lean-to house is easy to spot— having a full two-story façade, or front elevation, and a one-story rear ­elevation connected by a long sloping north roof (called a catslide), and a single massive chimney.

14 Quince Street looking east, circa 1880s. This house is unusual because the longer roof is on the side facing the street (north), while the back of the house has the shorter roof and windows for both storeys.

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The early integral lean-to houses generally fall into two categories: the three-bay-wide half house and the full house (either three or five bays wide). Both versions employed heavy timber frames. Common interior features included a porch (entry way) with winder staircase and lower closet directly ahead against the massive chimney, exposed corner posts, low ceilings, and summer beams (often with chamfered, or angled, ­edges); paneled fireplace walls, mirror boards, and plank cradle boards.

Of the two versions, half houses were the more common and were built for possible future expansion. The half house usually had a chimney on the roof ridge at the end nearer the front door. The chimney could be easily added to with the expansion of a shed-roof lean-to addition or a similar sized two-story wing. These lean-to forms appear to be the first house forms on Nantucket that were originally shingled, although it is possible the earliest versions had plank board exteriors, but examples no longer exist. Like their predecessor (the Medieval or English house) lean-to houses often have articulated brick chimneys. The earliest examples had casement windows, but all surviving forms have sash windows. In most instances, windows are asymmetrically placed, and those on the south ­elevation were usually larger to capture solar heat—often with twelveover-twelve lights while nine-over-nine light windows are found on the upper floor and elsewhere on the building.

Because the lean-to is one of the earliest house forms, identifying them can be difficult since most examples have undergone alterations over the years. These houses were also moved, and their lean-to sections often were raised, making their rear elevations a full two stories high. Hence, many houses with lean-to beginnings hold a wealth of layers ripe for uncovering by the curious owner, architectural preservationist, or traditional building contractor.

Today, the lean-to form can be easily adapted for modern living, and those that retain evidences of their original interior features are treasured and are unfortunately increasingly rare. Fewer than fifty true lean-to ­houses remain, and many of them have undergone major changes that have ­destroyed much of their historic integrity. npt

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Nantucket Preservation Trust Annual Meeting 2011

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NPT Annual Meeting Please join us for our Annual Meeting Friday, July 29, 2011 Unitarian Church, 11 Orange Street, 11:00 a.m.

The public is invited Guest Speaker: Sharon N. Lorenzo Two Faraway Islands, Nantucket and Saadiyat

Architectural Progress from the Whaling Era to the United Arab Emirates

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urrently a visiting instructor in Art and Law at the University of Pennsylvania, Sharon Lorenzo has an extensive background in art and architectural history and law, and has been a Nantucket summer resident since 1987. Mrs. Lorenzo has a keen interest in the island’s built environment, art, and history and has been a contributor to numerous publications, including the Inquirer and Mirror, and N Magazine.

She is a frequent guest lecturer at art museums and colleges nationwide, including the University of ­Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College.

Mrs. Lorenzo is a trustee of the Nantucket Arts Council and Nantucket Community Sailing and is a former board member of the Nantucket Historical Association. Off island she serves on the board of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and has served as trustee for the Contemporary Arts Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, both in Houston. npt

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2011 Preservation awards Please join us for NPT’s Annual Preservation Awards Presentation and ­Luncheon at the Great Harbor Yacht Club on Friday, July 29, to honor the 2011 award recipients.

Contact the NPT office for details, and reservations.

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Each year the Nantucket Preservation Trust recognizes individuals and organizations that advance the cause of historic preservation on Nantucket. Awards are provided for preservation work on historic buildings and landscapes, and for the protection and stewardship of island resources. NPT’s Preservation Awards Program is designed to showcase buildings and landscapes that have been sensitively updated or restored and that help to maintain and preserve the island’s historic character. Awards emphasize proper preservation, highlight the island’s craftspeople, and honor the foresight of owners who care about our historic structures and landscape.

The Architectural Preservation Award

The Unitarian Meeting House on Orange Street is the recipient of the NPT’s 2011 Architectural Preservation Award. Recent restoration work at the Unitarian Meeting House meets the highest preservation standards.

Work included exterior and interior restoration. Among the exterior work was the repair of the Town Clock, the regilding of the dome, reproduction of early railings at the lantern, and structural repairs and reshingling using original materials whenever possible. Major work on the interior included the restoration of the 1840s trompe l’oeil painting. This extensive portion of the project included research on interior pigments by a team from the Henry F. duPont Winterthur Museum and the removal of later materials down to the original layer (plaster and paint). The work was completed by a host of preservationists and traditional-building artisans, with funds for the project solicited by the South Church Preservation Fund from individuals and foundations as well as from the Nantucket Community Preservation Committee.

The John A. and Katherine S. Lodge Stewardship Award

The NPT is proud to announce that this year’s Stewardship Award will be presented to the Fremont-Smith family for their work on the Atlantic House at 27 Main Street, Siasconset. The Atlantic House, built in 1848, was one of the first hotels to cater to the summer resort industry on the island and today is a fine private home. The Fremont-Smiths acquired the historic property from family members with a preservation restriction on the façade and grounds held by the ’Sconset Trust. In a subsequent restoration, they exceeded the requirements of the preservation restriction, sustaining the original building with minimal change. Conscious decisions also were made to honor and respect the interior architecture.

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The Caroline a. Ellis Landscape Award

Polly and John Espy are the recipients of the Landscape Award for their garden at 4 New Dollar Lane. The Espy garden enhances and complements their historic house, the Joseph Starbuck house and outbuildings, which include a former stable, now used for summer dining, and the Starbuck candle factory (now family owned). The family summer home of Dr. and Mrs. Espy, the garden is very much the creation of the current owners. The original design of the garden was established by Polly’s mother, Mrs. J. ­Winston Fowlkes, in 1938, when she and her husband purchased the ­property. It was redesigned by Anne Homer Polk in 1993, and has been modified and ­simplified through the years on the advice of Lucinda Young. Jon ­Wisentaner is responsible for the lawns and assists with the general maintenance. Paul Droz has been taking care of the trees first for Mrs. Fowlkes and subsequently for the Espys.

Traditional building methods Award

Michael Burrey is the recipient of this year’s Traditional Building Methods Award. Mr. Burrey is a traditional-building carpenter who oversaw restoration of the Unitarian Meeting House tower and has worked on various projects on island as well as on the mainland. At the meeting house, his work included restoration of major roof trusses using nineteenth-­century ­methods and joinery npt as well as repair of other elements on the exterior and interior.

Past Recipients Stewardship Award Margaret Yates Berkheimer, posthumously, 8 Pine Street (2010) Sanford Kendall (2009) Clarissa Porter, 5 Quince Street (2008) Katherine S. Lodge, 94 Main Street (2008) Preservation Award Lucy Dillon and Steve Lindsay, 37 Liberty Street (2010) ReMain Nantucket, Mitchell’s Book Corner (2009) Valerie and Richard Norton, various islandwide projects (2008) Bernie and Carol Coffin, ’Sconset Post Office (2007) Ginger Ivey, 8 Cottage Avenue, ’Sconset (2007) Landscape Award Marilyn Whitney, Moors End, 19 Pleasant Street (2010) Caroline Ellis, Sankaty Head Lighthouse, ’Sconset Trust (2009) Traditional Building Methods Award Pen Austin; projects include 19 Mill, 18 India, and the Unitarian Meeting House (2010) 34

Nantucket Preservation Trust 2011 Preservation Award Recipients

preservation award 2011

The historic Unitarian Meeting house South Church Preservation Fund Preservation Award

The Fremont-Smith family Stewardship Award

Mr. Michael Burrey

Traditional Building Methods Award

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View of Main Street, circa early 1840s. This is the only known view of 足Nantucket prior to the Great Fire of 1846, showing the north side of Main Street, with a partial view of the Pacific Bank and the Methodist Church. The brick structure that replaced the large frame building in this view is home to the The NPT 足office (55 Main Street, third floor).

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nPT Preservation Fund Let Us Show You What’s Possible

NPT’s Architectural Preservation Fund is designed as a proactive step to assist the island community with historic preservation efforts. The fund helps property ­owners as well as those in the building trades by providing much needed financial and technical support.

Description

The goal of the NPT Architectural Preservation Fund is to encourage community-wide efforts to protect Nantucket’s historic architecture. The fund brings ­recognition to key projects, emphasizes the importance of proper preservation work, and encourages further community support for individual projects and ­preservation activities.

Preservation Easement Assistance

The fund provides seed money to offset the costs of securing preservation easements by homeowners and institutions. The fund is used to help pay for required documentation for the certification of historic structures and for the preparation of the easement documents. In most cases, preservation easement assistance requires distributed funds to revolve back to the NPT Preservation Fund upon the sale of such real estate.

Apprenticeship and Scholarship Funds

NPT’s Architectural Preservation Fund also supports apprenticeships and scholarships for the training of Nantucket’s preservation-related workforce. Traditional building skills are necessary to preserve historic structures, and knowledge of these increasingly rare techniques can keep tradesmen busy even in hard economic times. Funds and scholarships are available to those in the building trades who are interested in perfecting old skills or in learning new ones; those interested in an internship with a master craftsman; and for students looking to enter the skilledbuilding-craft market by pursuing traditional building skills in an academic setting.

Speaker and Demonstration Program

NPT hosts guest-speaker and demonstration programs to inform island residents and visitors about the important role preservation plays on Nantucket and around the world. The fund makes it possible to bring national leaders in the preservation movement to the island and to provide this free public programming. npt 37

Preservation tools

Photo by Kristen Weber

Let Us Show You What’s Possible

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Interviewing your old house

You are invited to take advantage of this complimentary program Do you want to learn how your historic house has evolved over time? The NPT provides a complimentary one-hour consultation for owners and ­realtors to assist them in understanding original features of their property or listing, and to guide in renovation projects. The service reveals the ­evolution of a house through an investigation of its architectural elements from the basement to the attic. The team can answer your questions about various features and provides information about a building’s architectural style, ­history, floor plan, details, and materials. Members of the interview team can include an architectural historian, architect, and old-house ­restorer.

Please contact us at the NPT office to schedule an interview of your old house (508-228-1387).

Make your mark

With an NPT house marker

An NPT House Marker serves as an important educational tool, informing the passerby about the age of the house, its associations with past islanders, the original owner’s occupation, if known, and other information that places the house in the context of the island’s rich history.

If you own a historic Nantucket house, you might consider purchasing an NPT house marker. Owners receive a hand-painted house marker along with the property’s chain of title, which is shared with the NHA’s Research Library to assist future historians and to enhance the understanding of ­Nantucket’s historic architecture.

It is our hope that the NPT House Marker Program will serve not only to identify and recognize buildings of historical and architectural merit, but also that the markers, through heightened community awareness, will ­encourage the continuing care and preservation of Nantucket’s historic architecture.

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House histories Each Nantucket Preservation Trust House History follows the evolution of a house from its origin in the seventeenth, eighteenth, or nineteenth century to the present—owner by owner. Our work includes investigating source materials such as deeds, plot plans, probate and cemetery records, family papers, town records, newspapers, and census records to unlock the unique history of each house.

An NPT House History also provides a visual record of the historic house through time. Our house histories, researched and written by noted historian Betsy Tyler, are beautifully illustrated with historic photographs, maps, and other illustrations discovered during the investigation.

For those who are just beginning to unlock the history of their house, we recommend commissioning a brief history as a first step in understanding the building’s unique history. This summary can be used as the initial ­research for further investigation and documentation for an NPT house marker. It includes a chain of title to determine the building’s construction date and the list of owners over time, as well as a short narrative and a sampling of historic photographs. Following is the summary of a brief house history completed earlier this year.

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House Histories NANTUCKET

A Special Program Offered by

Nantucket Preservation Trust Every historic Nantucket house has a story. Do you know yours?

Unlock the history of your home with a Nantucket Preservation Trust House History.

We offer three levels of house histories—our new brief history, which provides basic deed research and a short summary—or our concise and comprehensive hardcover books that are thoroughly researched, clearly written, and beautifully illustrated to provide a detailed picture of your house through time.

For more information, visit our Web site: www.nantucketpreservation.org or contact us at 55 Main Street, P.O. Box 158, Nantucket, MA 02554 508-228-1387

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A Brief History

3 North Liberty Street

Stephen Skinner, mariner, circa 1805

3 North Liberty, circa 1880s

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ineteenth-century deeds for the house at 3 North Liberty ­describe the property as “a certain lot of land in Nantucket, in that part of the town called Egypt.” Liberty, North Liberty, and Lily Streets meet in the heart of “Egypt,” an early Nantucket place name that referred to an area south of Lily Pond, extending to the end of the Wesco Acre Lots on India Street; its exact boundaries are nowhere described. Why it was called Egypt is not documented, although the palpable darkness of the outskirts of the tightly clustered and more brightly lit town may have ­reminded some of a biblical reference: “And the Lord said unto Moses, stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.” (Exodus 10:21) William Coffin’s 1834 Map of the Town of Nantucket, the first survey of the town to show property lines of parcels and footprints of buildings, depicts a pair of houses at the beginning of North Liberty Street, in the fork created by Lily Street’s diversion to the northeast. The first house on the north side of North Liberty belonged to Jonathan Perry (1745–1823) and was removed sometime in the late nineteenth century. Perry’s oldest daughter, Nancy (1784–1818), was married to mariner Stephen Skinner (1777–1818), who was at sea in 1805 when his father-in-law, with a power of attorney, purchased in Skinner’s name the land adjoining his on the west, for $212. The Skinner dwelling was built sometime between 1805 and 1818, when both Nancy and Stephen died, seven months apart. Their five children, aged one to sixteen the year their parents died, sold the family home in 1830 to shoemaker Rowland Pollard. Pollard owned the house for six years, selling it to Thomas Barnard 2nd, ship master, in 1836. His widow, Caroline, sold the house in 1869 to John R. Sylvia, whose family owned it until 1914.

The best-known owner of 3 North Liberty was artist Tony Sarg (1880–1942).

He and his wife, Bertha, acquired the house in 1920, and owned it for twenty-two years. Tony Sarg was a well-known illustrator, author, toymaker, and puppeteer. He designed the first mechanically animated ­display window for Macy’s Department Store in New York City, and created the first huge hot-air balloons for the store’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade. A 1937 sea monster hoax on Nantucket demonstrated for the ­island his talent in gigantic ­balloon design. The Sargs made Nantucket their ­summer home, and Tony had a shop at 38 Centre Street; later he opened Tony Sarg’s Curiosity Shop at the corner of Steamboat Wharf and Easy Street. Several interior and exterior photographs of 3 North Liberty from the time of the Sarg residence are in the ­collection of the Nantucket ­Historical Association. npt 43

Nathaniel Hussey House 5 Quince Street, 2006 Photo by Kathleen Hay

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Preservation easements

Preservation easements remain the single best tool to protect historic buildings because they exist in perpetuity—long after the owner’s easement donation. Preservation easements are placed on the entire exterior of a historic building, and often include interior plans and historic features as well as landscape elements. Each easement is tailored to the specific building and the wishes of the property owner. NPT preservation easements are flexible to allow for alterations and updates as well as changes in lifestyle over generations while preserving historic fabric. Substantial tax benefits may be available for most donations, and preservation easements can also be part of your estate planning. For more information, please contact the NPT office.

NPT easement properties First Congregational Church 62 Centre Street

George Gardner House 8 Pine Street

Quaker Meeting House 7 Fair Street

Nathaniel Hussey House 5 Quince Street

The Nantucket Atheneum 1 India Street

Captain Peleg Bunker House 4 Traders Lane

Jabez Bunker/Prince Gardner House 85 Main Street Captain Thaddeus Coffin House 89 Main Street

Maria Mitchell Birthplace 1 Vestal Street Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin Lancasterian School 4 Winter Street

Hadwen-Wright House 94 Main Street

Higginbotham House 27 York Street

Thomas Starbuck House 11 Milk Street

Greater Light 8 Howard Street

Rescom Palmer House 9 New Mill Street

1800 House 4 Mill Street

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Preservation Is Green New Federal Sustainability Guidelines

The National Park Service (NPS) recently unveiled a set of richly illustrated guidelines that are ideal for the owners of historic houses and their building professionals who plan, work, and hope to improve energy efficiency while preserving the building’s historic character.

The “Illustrated Guidelines on Sustainability for Rehabilitating ­Historic ­Buildings” offer practical advice showing both recommended – and not ­recommended – approaches to projects from solar panel installation to ­heating and air ­conditioning upgrades to weatherization and insulation.

NPS hopes the guidelines will advance the growing trend of “greening” ­historic buildings.

Guidelines can be viewed by visiting: www.nps.gov/history/hps/tps/

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Walking Tours NPT’s walking tours provide an opportunity to learn about the ­people who came before us, the island’s unique history, and its remarkable ­architectural heritage. Tours are $10 per person and are offered from June to October (weather permitting). Contact the NPT office at ­508-228-1387 for details and reservations. Group tours can be ­arranged by appointment.

A STROLL ALONG MAIN STREET

The thirty houses between the Pacific National Bank and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument are a microcosm of the island’s architectural heritage, and also help to reveal the story of Nantucket’s whaling prosperity and ­its decline. Participants receive a copy of the paperback book A Walk Down Main Street, which includes a history of each house and its early occupants.

Most Thursdays and Fridays at 9:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (June-September)

’SCONSET TOUR

No visit to Nantucket is complete without a tour of this former fishing village at the island’s east end. Learn about the history of this early settlement from its whaling and fishing days to its revival in the nineteenth century as a seaside resort and “actors colony.” The unique architectural styles are noted, from the early fishing shacks to early-twentieth century forms.

Most Fridays at 4:00 p.m. (Please call the NPT office at 508-228-1387 for dates and reservations). npt

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Give Me Liberty!

NPT's Annual August FĂŞte In association with the Coffin School Trustees and the Egan Maritime Institute

Liberty Street Neighborhood • August 11, 2011

NPT’s Annual AUGUST Fête

August 11, 2011 Six o’clock in the evening A tour of historic buildings on Liberty and Winter Streets General Admission: $150 • Next Generation (under 40): $100 For tickets and information, please call the NPT office at 508-228-1387, or visit our Web site at www.nantucketpreservation.org.

The Nantucket Preservation Trust is most grateful to Brown Brothers ­Harriman, the sole corporate underwriter for the August Fête.

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he NPT’s August Fête is one of the summer’s most memorable events because it is more than a party—it is a celebration of Nantucket’s ­historic architecture. This year, participants will tour some of the ­earliest historic homes on island—and will also learn why preserving them for ­future generations is so important. Among the evening’s highlights will be a special behind-the-scenes tour of the Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin ­Lancasterian School, owned by the Coffin School Trustees and home to the Egan ­Maritime ­Institute. Be sure to join us in this celebration!

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Liberty Street Excerpted from Off Centre: The Wesco Acre Lots The Houses and Their Histories An NPT publication written by Betsy Tyler

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aid out in 1678 as the southern boundary of the Wesco Acre Lots, Liberty Street is older than Main Street, which was created by the Proprietors more than thirty years later but did not become widely used until after Straight Wharf was built. The dwellings on Liberty Street are some of the earliest in town, but among the eighteenthcentury dwellings are a few houses built in the mid-nineteenth century, and even in the 1870s and ’80s, on sites where much older houses once stood.

It was the custom on Nantucket in the seventeenth century, and for most of the eighteenth as well, to build houses facing south for the obvious benefit of light and warmth, making the north sides of the parallel streets in the Wesco Acre Lots the preferable house sites. This is certainly true of Liberty Street, where the houses on the north side are generally older than those on the south, which is broken up by the side streets Walnut and Winter. At Liberty Street’s origin on the north side of the Pacific Bank there is little distance from Main Street, and up to Walnut Street there is but one dwelling squeezed behind the Main Street mansions. As Liberty Street heads directly west, Main Street veers slightly southward, creating more expansive lots for those grand houses and providing room enough for dwellings on the south side of Liberty as well.

An important house no longer standing on the northeast corner of Winter and Liberty Streets was the home of Walter and Elizabeth Folger and their children, one of Nantucket’s most accomplished and interesting families.

Walter (1735–1826) married Elizabeth Starbuck (1738–1821) and they had eight talented offspring, among whom were Walter Folger Jr., inventor and state representative; Phebe, a talented artist and poet who also taught both navigation and needlework; Gideon, who was a whale oil merchant; and Rebecca,whose only surviving son, William C. Folger, became a renowned historian and genealogist. The Folger’s eighteenth-century dwelling was ­replaced by a new house in the 1830s. An eighteenth-century house belonging to Silas Jones Jr. at 20 Liberty was also removed, and a new house built there in 1885. East of Jones’s house was “a small piece of ­common land next to the claypit.” Henry Barnard Worth, author of ­Nantucket Lands and Land Owners, confirms that the clay-pit area included Winter Street and land extending about fifty feet west. Perhaps island potters and brickmakers used the clay in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, but there is no evidence of it today. npt 51

The history of the Coffin school

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he imposing Greek Revival structure on Winter Street known as the Coffin School has played an important educational role in the lives of Nantucketers since its completion in 1854.

The school, however, can trace its origins to 1827, when Admiral Sir Isaac ­Coffin, a ­veteran of the Royal Navy with ties to Nantucket’s Coffin ­descendants, ­provided funds for the establishment of the school. Known as the ­Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin Lancasterian School, this educational institution was ­founded by Coffin for the purpose of “promoting decency, good order and morality, and for giving a good English education to youth” who were descendants of the late Tristram Coffin, one of the original proprietors and to whom a great many Nantucketers were related.

The school first opened in a pre-existing building at Fair and Lyons streets with 130 children aged seven to sixteen; girls and boys were taught ­separately in the Lancasterian style—a discipline where older students served as tutors and monitors and taught the younger classes.

In 1846, the Fair Street School was closed, most likely due to the island’s declining population and economy. At that time, the Coffin School Trustees decided to allow the endowment to grow with the hope of opening a new facility on land they had acquired on Winter Street. By 1852, funds had ­increased significantly and construction began.

The architect of the present structure is unknown, but early records show that the builders were James Thompson and Edward Easton. In 1854, the brick school opened its doors to the first students, now with an expanded faculty (the Lancasterian method had been abandoned in 1831) and classes that ran six days a week. During its early years, however, the Coffin School struggled to maintain a steady number of scholars, largely due to competition from mandated public schools. An upsurge in enrollment occurred in the 1870s as the island economy improved, which allowed for construction of a rear addition, but in 1898 the school again fell on hard times and was forced to close.

Rebirth came in 1903, when the Coffin School Trustees, working with the public schools, offered ninth- through twelfth-grade students subjects such as woodworking and mechanical drawing for boys and home economics for girls.With the introduction of electricity, evening classes in specialized skills such as basketry and sewing were offered for adults.

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Interior of the Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin Lancasterian School, Winter Street, circa 1890s

In 1918, another addition at the rear of the school was built to serve the home economics courses. By 1941, the school was fully integrated with Nantucket’s public school system and classes continued until 1968. The ­following year, the school became the site of public kindergarten classes that continued until 1978. Throughout the late twentieth century, the building also served island nonprofits for purposes such as lectures, classes, and musical events.

In 1996, the Coffin School Trustees provided a long-term lease for the building’s interior to the Egan Maritime Institute, providing a home for the new organization. Today, Egan Maritime Institute shares use of the building with Nantucket Community Sailing, and the main hall continues to be used for lectures and concerts by other island groups. The Coffin School Trustees, some of whom are descended from the original trustees, or who went to school at the Coffin School, or who had family members who were teachers at the school, continue to own the Coffin School and continue their work of education – providing grants and scholarships to island youth and island youth-oriented programs. npt Jascin Leonardo Finger, a Coffin School Trustee, is curator of the Mitchell House, ­Archives, and Special Collections at the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association.

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The Coffin School was built in the Greek Revival style – a style that was commonly used for buildings associated with learning. Historic additions to the property include the cast-iron fence installed in the late 1850s and rear ells in 1872 and 1918. Today, the building also retains many of its original interior features, including horsehair plaster, doors, windows, wood floors, moldings, and bookcases. The ­Coffin School Trustees donated a preservation easement to the NPT in 2006 to ensure the building’s architectural integrity.

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Book: The Archaeology of Home: An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side, by Katherine Greider. This book, a history of the ­author’s own mid-1800s house in Manhattan, grew out of major structural problems she encountered. The owner’s investigation led her to unlock the history of the house and neighborhood from its Native American roots through the twentieth century. Her research shed light on not only structural problems but on the lives of those who attached themselves to this site. The book illustrates how the history of the house also reveals the history of New York and the nation, and provides insight into the very meaning of home.

Film: L’Heure d’ètè (Summer Hours), 2008 This French film, with subtitles, was produced by the Musée d’Orsay and follows the story of siblings confronted with the breakup of the family estate after the death of their mother.

The film, set at the family’s longtime summer home, reveals how objects and place produce a flood of memories.

The film won numerous awards and was released in the U. S. in 2009.

E-mail yours suggestions to npt@nantucketpreservation.org

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There are two ways—beyond your annual support—that you can help.

1. THE NPT PRESERVATION FUND Make a contribute to the Architectural Preservation Fund to support ­scholarships for students and tradespeople interested in learning about traditional building methods; to sponsor speaker and demonstration ­programs; and to assist with preservation easement work.

2. PLANNED GIVING Remember NPT in your estate planning. Your financial advisor can help you determine what means are best for you (bequests or charitable lead and remainder trusts, insurance policies, or retirement plans and IRAs).

Your contribution is greatly appreciated. Please help us plan for tomorrow by joining the Cornerstone Society today!

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