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Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Seminars

Amy Cole Ives and Scott Hanson will be featured presenters at the upcoming 2011 Vital Maine Communities Conference on June 9 & 10 in Lewiston and Skowhegan sponsored by Maine Preservation and the Maine Downtown Center. Amy will highlight the keys to meeting the rehabilitation standards required for approval of tax credits, and some tricks of the trade on addressing both common and the less expected issues that can arise. Using case studies of projects completed in Brunswick and Rockland, Scott will discuss tax credit basics and the rehabilitation design process including efficiency and code upgrades, restoration of historic features, and compatible new design elements to meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards while accommodating new uses in these historic buildings.

Nominations Approved for Listing on the National Register

Park Street School formerly Kennebunk High School, in Kennebunk, Maine was designed by the Boston architecture firm of Hutchins and French, and built in 1921-1922. The school is significant for architecture as an example of a Colonial Revival school and much of the original architecture remains intact and good condition.

The E.C. and M.I. Record Homestead in Buckfield, Maine is a late transitional Federal to Greek Revival style Cape Cod house with an attached kitchen ell, shed, and barn on 22 acres of land. Built c. 1844, the house is typical in form for a rural western Maine farm house of the 1840s, and notable in the town of Buckfield as an intact connected farmstead exhibiting a bold application of the Greek Revival style. Prior to preparing the nomination, SCC also completed a historic building documentation and preservation recommendations as supporting documentation for a land trust donation that included a protective easement on the historic buildings.

National Register of Historic Places Nomination

SCC has been retained by the National Park Service to prepare a National Register nomination for Rockefeller Hall on Big Moose Island in Acadia National Park. The building was designed in 1933-34 by New York architect Grosvenor Atterbury. Upon completion, the property was transferred to the Navy and remained in use until 2001. The property has now been transferred back to the Park Service and is being redeveloped as a new education and research center with the historic Rockefeller Hall as the centerpiece of the campus.

Conservation Master Plan

SCC is currently working on a conservation master plan of the Hancock Cemetery in Quincy, MA with Halvorson Design Partnership, Building & Monument Conservation and Northern Geomantics. SCC will complete the stone by stone conditions assessment of the cemetery and manage the assessment database for the conservation master plan.

Sutherland Conservation & Consulting (SCC) is a specialized team of architectural historians and preservation consultants providing services for commercial, non-profit and governmental clients, as well as historic homeowners. Our cross disciplinary expertise includes architectural history and preservation consulting, architectural design, federal, state and local preservation regulations, preservation trades and architectural conservation. We are committed to efficiently serving our clients through quality historic research and documentation, and facilitation of goals through effective communication and creative problem solving.

AWARD-WINNING PROJECT

SCC prepared the National Register nomination and the Historic Preservation Certification Application for the project.

Gilman Street School receives 2011 Statewide Historic Preservation Honor Award. The Gilman Street School, now known as Gilman Place, received its Final Certification from the National Park Service for Historic Tax Credits in May for a rehabilitation that created 35 apartments in Waterville. The project will be highlighted during Maine Preservation’s upcoming annual conference and receive a Statewide Historic Preservation Honor Award. Kevin Bunker, a partner with Developers Collaborative, the project developer, captured the synergy of this project with his comments at the opening. “This is what people want, so let’s do more of it and create more sustainable authentic communities by preserving what we have and doing development right, staying true to the principles of smart growth.” The former Waterville High School was constructed in 1912 in the Collegiate Gothic style with Art Deco manual arts training wing and auditorium/gymnasium added in 1936 and 1939 respectively.