HELP RAISE $145,000 BY NOVEMBER 2022Your help is needed for repairs and restoration of additional historic windows, ADA bathroom design, hazard mitigation items . . . and more. The funds raised may also be used towards 2021-2022 matching grant applications. Please join our efforts today. Even small donations like $18.58 help!
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Current Funds: $14,300 Goal: $145,000
PHASE 2 PROJECT GOAL
THROUGH NOVEMBER 2022 cost estimate: $290,000
- Repair, restoration and rehabilitation of 2nd & 3rd floor historic windows & shutters
- Hire construction project manager to oversee restoration and construction work
- Restore front exterior double doors, front interior double doors and rear exterior double doors
- Create parking lot and professional landscape plan and begin implementation
- Reclaim parking lot and driveway pavement, new parking lot grade and grade for building drainage, reconstructed parking lot entry, pave entire base coat
- Add new/replacement expanded off-parking lot storage building; storage for Library and Friends of the Effingham Public Library
- Add exterior French perimeter drain water mitigation system at roof eaves for building drainage, parking lot drainage, improve Town House Road ditches and culvert drainage
- Insulate three 2nd floor exterior walls, 2nd floor ceiling; build one false interior insulated wall in the large community room
- Electrical wiring upgrades include: new underground electrical entrance and remove overhead wires; 2nd floor community room and 6-story bell tower; add LED lighting to 2nd floor ceiling in large community room
- 3rd floor HVAC system engineering; HVAC and ductwork installation to service to serve 2nd floor large community room heat and air conditioning and moisture control
- Rehabilitate the four historic cloverleaf windows & cupola railings in and on bell tower
- Create structural engineer plan and project description to re-hang the Henry N. Hooper & Company (Boston-Paul Revere foundry) 1863 bell in the tower. Ring the bell!
- Repoint and repoint brick foundation face
- Renovate two bathrooms, one ADA compliant & plumbing upgrades
- Repair plaster on walls and ceiling of 2nd floor large community room
- Up to 10% contingency for unanticipated items
remnants of historic cloverleaf windows - use as template for reproduction windows in bell tower
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Lucas Mueller, Jacobs Glass, Inc., example work
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and ongoing...
- Continue to accept Cash and other monetary donations!
- Continue to accept volunteer help in writing grant applications
- Continue to apply for government and private foundation grants
- Continue to coordinate with Effingham Public Library, Effingham Preservation Society and other organizations
- And most important, continue to listen to constructive ideas and feedback from Effingham citizens along with our many project supporters living locally and nationwide.
Artisans at work repairing and restoring similar style windows, Jacobs Glass, Inc., Winslow , Maine
Bill Blodgett & Lucas Mueller
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Bill Blodgett
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Michael Bragg
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This project was funded in part by a grant from the NH Preservation Alliance, which received support for its grants program from the New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP).
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Effingham Preservation Society is a 501(c)3 organization established in 1999 to preserve historic buildings and landmarks in Effingham, New Hampshire. The Preservation Society has agreed to be the Fiscal Agent of the Historic Town Hall Project.
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