[wendell-meetinghouse] Wendell Meetinghouse

Tue Apr 16 14:58:50 EDT 2013

Dear Kim,
Thank you for the attachment and links regarding Historic Structure
Reports.  Your input to the discussion last night was very helpful and we
appreciated your willingness to travel from Albany to be with us.  It is
clear that Landmark Consulting takes its extended territory seriously and
that you are genuinely interested in challenges, large and small.

I am copying members of the Friends so that those who were unable to
attend last night will be acquainted with your contribution.  We hope to
get a proper RFP out to those of you who came last night in the not too
distant future.  Meanwhile, we have our work cut out for us to frame the
request appropriately.

With best wishes,
Chris

----- Original Message -----

Hi Chris,

Thank you for the invite to see the Wendell Meetinghouse yesterday.  You
have a wonderful old building and such great potential.  I think the
discussion we had later at the Senior Center was very helpful for both the
consultants and hopefully for the Friends.  While it was still fresh on
my mind, I wanted to send you some resources that may help you in better
defining your project.

Attached please find a summary of the Nat’l Park Service Preservation
Brief #43 – I generally use it as a starting point for developing a
report outline, and then narrow it down based on the specific needs of the
building and users.  The full preservation brief can be found at [
http://www.nps.gov/hps/tps/briefs/brief43.htm
]http://www.nps.gov/hps/tps/briefs/brief43.htm

There is also a full issue of the Bulletin of the Association for
Preservation Technology (very active preservation trade organization)
dedicated to the subject of Hist. Structure Reports.  I believe the full
bulletin can be accessed on JSTOR, but here is a link to the intro.  [
http://tylertopics.com/ilene/Slaton1997.pdf
]http://tylertopics.com/ilene/Slaton1997.pdf

Lastly, Tom or Ward mentioned the NJ Historic Preservation Office’s
publications which are very informative.  Here are two links to
publications.

[ http://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/4sustain/preparehsr.pdf
]http://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/4sustain/preparehsr.pdf

[ http://www.njht.org/dca/njht/applguid/Planning%20Documents.pdf
]http://www.njht.org/dca/njht/applguid/Planning%20Documents.pdf

Hopefully this will be helpful to your group in understanding what your
next steps should be.  Communicating with MHC would also be beneficial
since you will need their legislative & financial support down the road.

Best of luck,

Kim Alvarez

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Kimberly Konrad Alvarez, Certified WBE
LANDMARK CONSULTING LLC
83 Grove Avenue, Albany, NY 12208
W/F 518-458-8942  CELL 518-361-3909
[ mailto:kkalvarez at landmarkconsulting.net ]kkalvarez at landmarkconsulting.net

From: Chris Queen [mailto:christopher_queen at harvard.edu] 
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 12:11 PM
To: kkalvarez at landmarkconsulting.net
Subject: Fwd: RE: Wendell, Mass. Meetinghouse

Dear Kim,
We look forward to meeting you Jack tonight.  We do not have a formal RFP
at this point, but we wanted to have a discussion about it with you and a
few others who are planning to join us for the tour and discussion.  We
look forward to your expertise and interest.

The Meetinghouse is at 3 Morse Village Road, Wendell, MA 01379 -- for your
GPS.  

--Chris Queen

----- Original Message -----

Hello Chris,

Thank you for the invitation.  I would be happy to attend the tour of
your building next Monday evening.  What you have described is very much
the type of work that Landmark Consulting does and enjoys.  While I would
agree that we are further away than qualified preservation firms in Boston
and the Connecticut River Valley, both my husband (biz partner) and I have
worked extensively throughout New England, and the proximity of Albany to
Massachusetts played a large role in our relocation from Boston to NY
State.  

I am very interested in learning more about your building and your
restoration plans.  As Martha noted, Jack and I are very active in
advocacy efforts statewide and regionally to promote window restoration. 
So I applaud your current initiative on the windows of the Meetinghouse.  

Have you prepared an RFP or work scope for the HSR, or will this be
discussed during the tour and meeting?  Lastly, I attempted to look up
the Friends of the Meetinghouse’s website but it was not active.  Can
you send me a street address, so I can map out directions?  

Thank you again.  I look forward to meeting you on Monday.

Regards,

Kim Alvarez

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Kimberly Konrad Alvarez, Certified WBE
LANDMARK CONSULTING LLC
83 Grove Avenue, Albany, NY 12208
W/F 518-458-8942  CELL 518-361-3909
[ http://www.landmarkconsulting.net ]www.landmarkconsulting.net

From: Chris Queen [[ mailto:christopher_queen at harvard.edu
]mailto:christopher_queen at harvard.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 11:07 AM
To: [ mailto:kkalvarez at landmarkconsulting.net
]kkalvarez at landmarkconsulting.net
Cc: [ mailto:nan at itpuzzleworks.net ]nan at itpuzzleworks.net; [
mailto:mhl at marthalyon.com ]mhl at marthalyon.com; [
mailto:jbarilla at assumption.edu ]jbarilla at assumption.edu
Subject: Wendell, Mass. Meetinghouse

Dear Ms. Alvarez,
Landmark Consulting was strongly recommended to us by Martha Lyon in
regard to our need for an Historic Structure Report for the Wendell
Meetinghouse, in Wendell, Massachusetts.  Compared to some of the other
preservationists who have expressed interest, your firm is a bit far away,
out-of-state in Albany.  Nevertheless, we would like to include you in
our bidding process if you are interested.  

Would you be available to attend a tour of the building next Monday, April
15, at 6 pm?  We are inviting a few of the other preservationists who
responded to our Mass. Historic Preservation listserve announcement (see
below).  The tour will give you a chance to see the building, inside and
out, to ask questions of our officers.  

You are also invited to remain for our monthly meeting at 7 pm, in which
we will be discussing the uses of the building, finances, and the progress
of the current window restoration project.  You will get a pretty good
idea of who we are and why we are excited about our town's most
significant historic building.

Please let me know if you will be able to join us.

Sincerely,
Chris Queen
Vice President
978-544-0216

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>From : Martha H. Lyon<[ mailto:mhl at marthalyon.com ]mhl at marthalyon.com>
To : "'nanc'" <[ mailto:nanc at sustaincommunity.org
]nanc at sustaincommunity.org>
Cc : <[ mailto:kkalvarez at landmarkconsulting.net
]kkalvarez at landmarkconsulting.net>
Date : Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:04:41 -0400
Subject : RE: [MassHistPres] Historic/architectural report
============ Forwarded message ============
Nan,

I strongly recommend you contact Kim Alvarez of Landmark Consulting for
this.  She is an architectural preservation consultant in business with
her husband, Jack Alvarez, a preservation architect.  Her work is
unparalleled and she is very dedicated to her clients, so will pay a lot
of attention to detail and to the Friends? needs.  Her e-mail address is
[ mailto:kkalvarez at landmarkconsulting.net
]kkalvarez at landmarkconsulting.net ([ http://www.landmarkconsulting.net
]www.landmarkconsulting.net), and Landmark Consulting is based in
Albany.  I have copied her on this message.

Martha

Martha H. Lyon, ASLA, CLARB

Martha Lyon Landscape Architecture, LLC

313 Elm Street

Northampton, MA 01060

413-586-4178 (p)

413-584-6697 (f)

413-695-2531 (m)

[ http://www.marthalyon.com/ ]http://www.marthalyon.com/ 

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

From: [ mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu
]masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu [[
mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu
]mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu] On Behalf Of nanc
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 1:21 PM
To: [ mailto:masshistpres at cs.umb.edu ]masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
Subject: [MassHistPres] Historic/architectural report

We are going to be looking for someone to write an historic achitecture
report for our 1846 former Congregational Church, now called the Wendell
Meetinghouse. We have raised funds and embarked on the project of
restoring all of the windows but we feel that our next step is to get a
solid report in hand for supporting future requests for grants and
donations. 
I am looking for suggestions of preservation architects people have had
good experiences with whom we could contact.
thank you

Nan Riebschlaeger
President, Friends of the Wendell Meetinghouse
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