Newton, Massachusetts Community Preservation Program Proposals & Projects

Durant-Kenrick Homestead
location:
  286 Waverley Avenue
Newton Corner, MA 02458
goals:
  Restore and adapt this private 1732 house museum for use as a public history museum, and acquire a preservation restriction on the historic landscape next door, as context for the historic house.
project
funding:
 
$2,795,800 CP funds appropriated  (historic resources)
incl. $8,300 for City of Newton legal services
contacts:
  Cynthia Stone,
Director, Historic Newton
527 Washington Street
Newton Corner, MA 02458
email:   cstone@newtonma.gov
phone:   617.796.1451
See also:
  Burying Grounds (project updates)
Museum (for archives, collections, building, & general fundraising/ capital campaign updates)

PROPOSAL REVIEW & APPROPRIATIONS
October 2006
  Needs assessment proposal
3 October 2006
  Needs assessment presentation at public hearing
24 March 2006
  Needs assessment CPC funding recommendation
18 April 2006
  Needs assessment Board order (appropriation): $78,500

3 October 2006
 
Full project main proposal
3 October 2006
  Full project development & operating budgets (projected)
3 October 2006
  Full project property history & treatment recommendations
(very long file, will load slowly)
3 October 2006
  Full project house interior/collections, with appraisal
3 October 2006
  Full project house & land appraisal (long file, will load slowly)
3 October 2006
  Full project letters of support
May 2007
  Full project development & operating budgets (revised projections)
7 March 2007
  Full project public hearing presentation
May 2007
  Tentative site programming ideas (draft for discussion purposes only)
12 June 2007
  Full project CPC funding recommendation
(revised between appropriations for phase 1 and phase 2)

24 April  2007
 
Museum rehabilitation & construction (phase 1), discussion by
Aldermanic Committee on Community Preservation
23 May 2007
  Museum rehabilitation (phase 1), discussion by
Aldermanic Finance Committee
4 June 2007
  Museum rehabilitation (phase 1)  Board order (appropriation): $1,447,300

26 June 2007

 
Landscape preservation restriction (phase 2), revised
CPC funding recommendation
25 June 2007

  Landscape preservation restriction (phase 2), discussion by Aldermanic Committee on Community Preservation
16 July  2007

  Landscape preservation restriction (phase 2), discussion by
Aldermanic Finance Committee
13 August 2007

  Landscape preservation restriction (phase 2) Board order  (appropriation): $1,270,000

PROJECT NEWS
12 August  2009
  updated fundraising results
24 August 2009
  commitment to transfer property by Durant Foundation
17 November 2009
  architectural services - request for proposals
16 December 2009
  in Historic Newton presentation on all current projects
December 2009
  updated historic landscape plan

Dec. 2009-Jan. 2010
  updated fundraising goals & results to date
November 2010
  revised architectural plans (long document, will load slowly)
20 December 2010
  updated timeline (request for extension, granted)

25 February 2011
  updated fundraising results
28 March 2011

  project updates:  
summary
fundraising results
development & operating budgets
timeline
23 August 2011
  Massachusetts Architectural Access Board decisions
15 September 2011
  Massachusetts Historical Commission preservation agreement

legal documents required for initial release of funds
9 November 2011
  recorded preservation restriction
June-November 2011
  commitment & certification of non-CPA funding
November-December 2011
  certification by project architect & landscape consultant that project meets federal standards
(Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties & Cultural Landscapes)
8 December 2011
  updated timeline
9 December 2011
  executed grant agreement
22 December 2011
  first release of funds (photograph)

CONTACT:  
Alice E. Ingerson, Ph.D., Community Preservation Program Manager
Newton Planning & Development Department,
City Hall, 1000 Commonwealth Ave., Newton, MA 02459
phone 617.796.1144, email  aingerson@newtonma.gov, TDD / TTY 617.796.1089