Highlights from this year’s Seven to Save listees, the annual list from the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance that recognizes historically significant properties in need of saving.
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Blow-Me-Down Farm is leased from the National Park Service to the non-profit Opera North. Their goal is to help transform this 46-acre site and its buildings into a ‘National Park for the Arts’.
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The home of Percy MacKaye, a nationally known poet, playwright, and dramatist, is in danger of demolition if the right preservation opportunity doesn’t come along.
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Built in 1780, the Wilder-Holton House was the first two-story house in Coös County and has been used as a farmhouse, meeting house, boarding house, tourist home, and private residence. Today, it sits in need of many repairs to bring it back to its former glory.
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The Milford Bandstand is a natural gathering place and focal point for social, musical and political events in town. Due to growing concerns about rotten wood and the structure’s integrity and safety, the future of this historic structure is at stake.
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This tucked-away station is the only remaining intact railroad-associated building in Newington. As an example of a combined depot, bridge toll house, and second-floor stationmaster residence, it is a rare property type in New Hampshire.
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After two years of minimal use and canceled events, unprecedented challenges face New Hampshire’s historic theatres with no-or reduced-audiences to support the costs of maintaining these important, historic venues.
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As a wonderful example of Victorian polychromatic design, this impressive wood-frame church remains largely as it was built in 1892. The church’s relatively small congregation is working to preserve and repair this large building and find new ways for it to remain viable in the midst of dramatic changes to the surrounding village.
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How many sites are important for what happened there 10,000 years ago AND for an outdoor use that flourished in the mid-20th century? The Weirs Drive-In and archaeological site in Laconia, NH is such a place.
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Twenty historic preservation projects will be propelled forward by new LCHIP grants, including three properties listed on the Preservation Alliance’s Seven to Save. Many other grant recipients were helped by the Alliance’s field service program, readying them for coveted bricks-and-mortar grants.
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