Ramblings 2023 - Nantucket Preservation Trust

Dear Members and Friends,

Thanks for picking up a copy of Ramblings, NPT’s annual magazine. For seventeen years, Ramblings has highlighted the important historic preservation work happening year-round on Nantucket.

This issue features our 2022 Preservation Award Winners, honored last September; we explore what buildings are Lost,Threatened, and Saved on the island; check in with Mary Helen and Michael Fabacher Scholarship recipient Kevin Green, now in his second year at the North Bennet Street School; and explore the history of NPT’s easement program.

Be sure to mark your calendars for our signature summer events, including a lecture and luncheon with architects Thomas McManus and Andrew Oyen of Ferguson & Shamamian Architects on Thursday, July 20th and our Annual August Fête on India Street on Thursday, August 10th.

Ramblings provides a glimpse into the history of 1 West York Lane, a c.1840 house built for Joseph Lewis, a mariner originally from Cape Verde, and his wife Julia Robinson Lewis. You’ll also read an update from the Town of Nantucket’s Preservation Planner, Holly Backus, about the ongoing survey work the Public Archelogy Laboratory, Inc. is undertaking to improve our understanding of Nantucket’s historic structures.

We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to seeing you at our events this summer. For more timely updates, be sure to check out our blog, The Fanlight, on our website.

Sincerely,

Mary Bergman

Executive Director

The Nantucket Preservation Trust preserves, protects, and promotes the island’s unique architectural heritage and sense of place.

For more information, please visit us at: 11 Centre Street | P.O. Box 158, Nantucket, MA 02554 |508-228-1387 | www.nantucketpreservation.org

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Preserving the Island’s Architectural Heritage our BeLieF

Nantucket’s historic architecture is a unique and valuable asset that makes the island special. our GoaL

To preserve Nantucket’s architectural heritage for present and future generations to enjoy. our hope

That you will join us in working to preserve our past. our proGraMs

Apprenticeships • Architectural Studies • Architectural Lectures

Architectural Preservation Fund • August Fête

Brief Histories, House Genealogies, and Comprehensive House Histories

Historic District Commission Testimonies

Historic House Tours • Historic Research • House Consultations

House Markers • House Resource Assistance • Interior Surveys

Landmark History Books • Main Street Architectural Walking Tour

Nantucket Preservation Symposium • Neighborhood Book Series

Preservation Awards • Preservation Easements

Preservation Month Programs

Private Walking Tours • Ramblings • Resource Guide

Scholarships • ’Sconset & Codfish Park Walking Tours

Summer Lecture and Luncheon

Traditional Building Methods Demonstrations

Did You Know?

India Street is well traveled by most Nantucketers, a common route into the downtown core for those of us coming from Madaket or Cisco. The street is one of Nantucket’s oldest, having been laid out in the division of the Wesco Acre lots in 1678. It wasn’t always known as India, though: in 1799, when Nantucket’s first list of streets was recorded by Isaac Coffin, it was called Pearl Street. According to historian Betsy Tyler, the name India Street first appears in an 1816 deed to the house at 33 India Street and was used throughout the 1820s, but by the time William Coffin created his 1834 Map of Nantucket, Pearl Street was again the name in vogue. It wasn’t until the 1950s that India Street became the street name of choice. According to Joseph Sampson in an 1811 issue of Port Folio , the street was called India Row for the number of captains residing “in ease and affluence” on the street.

Indeed, India Street between Gardner and Centre Streets is home to a variety of well-preserved historic homes, a handful of which will be open to tour at our August Fête on Thursday, August 10, including the c.1767 gambrel Silas Paddack house at number 18 and the only three-bay brick house in town at number 12. But as India Street passes Centre and enters downtown, it becomes a street not of residential but of commercial life. The Nantucket Atheneum, the first structure rebuilt following Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846, designed by Frederick Brown Coleman, is a high-style Greek Revival masterwork. It is the collection of buildings on the street that adds to its atmosphere as one of Nantucket’s most charming.

Opposite: India Street, 2022

Lost, Threatened, and Saved

Lost: Veranda House

The Veranda House, one of Nantucket’s iconic hotels that dated from the island’s early development as a tourist destination, was engulfed by a massive fire on July 9, 2022. Thanks to the valiant response of the Nantucket Fire Department and quick-acting passersby who alerted sleeping hotel guests to the fire, no lives were lost, and the fire damage was kept from spreading beyond its immediate neighbors.

The Veranda House is said to have been constructed using materials salvaged from the home of William Gayer, one of the first Englishmen to settle on Nantucket, which was constructed facing Centre Street in 1684 and removed to allow for the construction of a new house in 1765. Nathan Chapman, an inventor and businessman, purchased the home at 3 Step Lane in 1881 and opened the Veranda House for business in August 1882. Chapman renovated the building with Victorian style, adding the namesake three-story verandas, providing views of Nantucket Harbor and the opportunity for visitors to “enjoy the benefit of the sea breezes,” as noted in early advertisements. Chapman was an innovative marketer, and even began calling Step Lane ‘Chapman Avenue,’ though the name did not stick. Chapman died in 1885, but the hotel continued on after him, with his successors in the business adding a north wing in 1890. In 1930, thenowner Frederic M. Gardner changed the name of the hostelry to the Hotel Overlook, a name it retained until 2003 when it was changed back to the Veranda House.

The Veranda House looked remarkably similar to its 1880s appearance until the fateful fire, and its current owners plan to rebuild the hotel with relatively minor alterations to its pre-fire appearance. The Veranda House accommodated tourists in affordable rooms as Nantucket’s economy pivoted towards tourism in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, and after being rebuilt will hopefully continue on in the vision of Nathan Chapman for many more decades.

Historic photo of Veranda House, courtesy of Nantucket Historical Association

Threatened: 2 Stone Alley

Stone Alley is one of Nantucket’s most iconic pedestrian ways. The narrow cobblestone passage that connects Union Street to Orange Street, on the edge of Quanaty Bank, has been depicted on postcards and tourist advertisements since the 19th century. According to historian Frances Karttunen, “For many decades, the view up Stone Alley to the tower of the Unitarian Church with the Town Clock and its famous Portuguese bell was just as representative of Nantucket as the Old Mill.” Today, walking up the narrow, ivy-covered stretch and emerging to see the 18 th century double house at 1 and 3 Stone Alley and glimpsing the shining dome of the Old South Meeting House really does feel like stepping back in time. But in recent years, the quaint atmosphere of Stone Alley has been threatened by a proposed dramatic renovation to the historic Eliza Codd house at 2 Stone Alley. The structure was originally built as a stable around 1870 and converted into a dwelling in the early 20 th century by Eliza Codd (1882–1920), a graduate of MIT and Nantucket’s first practicing female architect. As an architect, Eliza helped to modernize many old Nantucket homes and was noted in The Inquirer and Mirror for “her skill in conserving the characteristics of Nantucket architecture while adding the requirements of modern times.” She did just that in her own house, and 2 Stone Alley still maintains many of her hallmark details more than 100 years after her death, including a sun porch on the south side of the building. Unfortunately, since 2018, the current owners of 2 Stone Alley have repeatedly sought to radically alter the historic cottage with an addition that is more than double the square footage of the current building. Nantucket’s Historic District Commission (HDC) denied the owners’ application for a renovation in March 2021, but in January 2022 they submitted new plans by a new architect. Those plans, though more sensitive to the existing structure than the original architect’s vision, still call for a large addition, not far off the quaint path of Stone Alley that would remove character-defining features of the house, like Eliza Codd’s trademark sunporch. Despite this, the HDC approved the new plans, after multiple rounds of revisions, in November 2022.

The HDC’s approval was appealed to the Nantucket Select Board by Ginger Andrews, owner of 1 and 3 Stone Alley. In a 4-1 decision, the Select Board voted to remand the appeal back to the HDC. Their decision

rested on the fact that the house at 2 Stone Alley had previously been misidentified as the George Upton House and was listed as a contributing structure to Nantucket’s National Historic Landmark District. The appeal argued that the correct identification of the house as the Eliza Codd House in fact made 2 Stone Alley an individually significant building, a status that the HDC did not adequately consider in their deliberations. On remand, the HDC commissioners voted unanimously to uphold their previous approval. The final impact on the slated renovation on the streetscape remains to be seen, but the experience of walking Stone Alley will be forever changed.

Above: 2 Stone Alley, 2022

Opposite: Stone Alley with a view to the Unitarian Church, 2022

Previous page: Stone Alley postcard, c.1920s, courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association

This page: NISDA cottages on the move, courtesy of NISDA

Saved: NISDA Cottages

When it was founded in the 1970s, the Nantucket Island School of Design & the Arts (NISDA) occupied a small cluster of cottages at 71 Washington Street, on the corner of Francis Street. The cottages were originally constructed as a vacation colony by Robert and Arlene Christman in the early 1950s and operated as Christman’s Cottages. The seven buildings hosted hundreds of artists over the years, but they were always vulnerable to flooding. In recent decades, that flooding has grown worse and more frequent. NISDA founder and executive director Kathy Kelm remembers during October 1991’s “Perfect Storm,” when “12 Artists in Residence were rescued by the Nantucket Fire Department in a boat through electrified water and taken to the Red Cross set up at the high school until the storm abated.” In other storms, flooding inside the cottages reached 3 feet, and in addition to the physical damage sustained by the cottages during each flood, it threatened the viability of NISDA’s Artists in Residence Program.

NISDA made the decision to sell their Washington Street property to the Town (to widen the road) and the Nantucket Land Bank, to aid in adaptation and coastal resilience planning. The cottages closest to the water—those most heavily damaged by flooding—were demolished, but in May 2022, the two remaining cottages were moved to 55 Wauwinet Road, just down the street from NISDA’s main Seaview Farm campus, a property which is protected by a preservation easement held by NPT. The two remaining cottages are in the process of being rehabilitated in their new locations and will become the Offshore Artist Residency, maintaining NISDA’s traditions and ensuring the survival of these midcentury structures. Not only were the cottages saved, but the Town’s plans for coastal resilience adaptations were helped by the acquisition of the land on Washington Street. npt

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NANTUCKET BROADWAY

PT’s Preservation Awards are presented to individuals and organizations that advance the cause of historic preservation on Nantucket. Highlighting projects and the people who commissioned and completed preservation work is our way of honoring those who demonstrate to the community that sensitive preservation is possible and rewarding. Preservation Awards recipients serve as restoration role models and help ensure the protection of the island’s historic resources for future generations.

The NPT’s Preservation Awards emphasize proper preservation and sensitive new construction, showcase Nantucket’s craftspeople, and celebrate the foresight and stewardship of owners who care about our historic structures and the island landscape.

The deadline for applications for our 2023 Awards is July 1, 2023.

Visit bit.ly/NPTawards to download the submission form.

MICHELLE ELZAY ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATION AWARD

“I think it is important, as Americans, to acknowledge that even as a very young country, we have an architectural legacy worth saving and protecting.”

–Michelle Elzay (1973–2023)

A talented artist, interior designer, and historic preservationist, Michelle cherished Nantucket and its history. Childhood summers on the island led to a lifelong commitment to preserving Nantucket’s architectural heritage. Michelle was an NPT Board member, twice a winner of the Architectural Preservation Award, and later, a member of NPT’s award committee. In the last decade, she restored the c.1834 house at 55 Union Street with Pen Austin, and rooted many of her artistic and research pursuits in the history uncovered during the restoration. In 2020, while reflecting on time spent at her beloved island home in

the early days of the pandemic, Michelle wrote, “I have turned a small attic room, rumored to have been framed out to shelter stranded sailors, into my design and art studio and writing room. Writing from a little desk perched near a window with a springtime view of the harbor, I willingly strand myself half in and half out of another time.”

Indeed, a conversation with Michelle spanned hundreds of years of Nantucket history, as she so intimately came to know the historic occupants of the island who’d once walked these same streets. Michelle had great reverence for both builders of the past and craftspeople of the present whose careful work ensures these historic homes will endure for another 200 years. A preservation easement recorded in October 2022 ensures 55 Union Street will be forever protected.

To honor her memory, the Architectural Preservation Award will be known as The Michelle Elzay Architectural Preservation Award.

ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATION

The Michelle Elzay Architectural Preservation Award recognizes the owner(s) of a historic structure, and, when appropriate, one or more building professionals who assisted in the completion of a significant preservation project. Structures may contain additions that are compatible with the historic sections and include exterior and interior work. In order to qualify for the award, preservation of those portions or features that convey the property’s historical, cultural or architectural values is required.

LANDSCAPE AND GARDEN

The Caroline A. Ellis Landscape & Garden Award recognizes gardens and landscapes on Nantucket that embody our unique sense of place and celebrates the people who make them.

“I have turned a small attic room, rumored to have been framed out to shelter stranded sailors, into my design and art studio and writing room. Writing from a little desk perched near a window with a springtime view of the harbor, I willingly strand myself half in and half out of another time.”

- Michelle Elzay

STEWARDSHIP

The John A. and Katherine S. Lodge Stewardship Award recognizes an individual, organization, or owner(s) of a historic property who demonstrate a high degree of commitment to the preservation of the structure(s) and the island. An individual who maintains a historic property or who has played an important part in the preservation of Nantucket also can be nominated for this award.

TRADITIONAL BUILDING METHODS

The Traditional Building Methods Award recognizes craftspeople who promote traditional building methods or who have made a major contribution to the field of historic preservation on island. Past recipients have balanced time-honored methods with modern tools. Consideration can be for one exemplary project or an entire body of work.

HISTORICAL RENOVATION

The Historical Renovation Award recognizes the owner(s) of a historic structure and the building professionals who assisted in the design and completion of a sensitive new addition to a historic structure. Projects should harmonize with the massing and architectural details of the original structure rather than overwhelm the original structure.

NEW CONSTRUCTION

The New Construction Award recognizes new buildings or additions to non-historic structures that take into special consideration the surrounding structures and harmonize with the historic streetscape. An award-worthy new construction project is one that looks as though it has always been there or adds something that has been taken away.

In addition to the annual awards, the NPT board of directors periodically honors those who have made a major impact on preservation of the island’s architectural heritage with the Excellence in Preservation Award . For additional information on NPT award recipients—past and present— visit us online at www.nantucketpreservation.org

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PAST AWARD RECIPIENTS

MICHELLE ELZAY ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATION AWARD

Whitney Lucks and Karl Schneider, 85 Main Street, 2021

The Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket, The Boston-Higginbotham House, 27 York Street, 2020

Jeffrey Paduch and Caroline Hempstead, 86 Main Street, 2019

The Hospital Thrift Shop, 17 India Street, 2018

Siasconset Union Chapel Board of Trustees, 2017

Virginia Andrews; George Gray LLC, 55 Union Street, 2016

Nantucket Historical Association, Old Gaol, 2015

Ed and Joan Lahey, 7 Farmer Street, 2014

Michelle Elzay, Sparrow Design, 43 Pine Street, 2013

Maria Mitchell Association, Maria Mitchell Birthplace, 2012

South Church Preservation Fund, 11 Orange Street, 2011

Lucy Dillon, property owner; Steve Lindsay, contractor, 37 Liberty Street, 2010

ReMain Nantucket, Mitchell’s Book Corner, 2009

Valerie and Richard Norton, numerous projects, 2008

Bernie and Carol Coffin, ’Sconset Post Office, 2007

Ginger Ivey, 8 Cottage Avenue, ’Sconset, 2007

CAROLINE A. ELLIS LANDSCAPE AND GARDEN AWARD

Siasconset Union Chapel, Michael Van Valkenburgh Landscape Associates, and Champoux Landscape, 18 New Street, Siasconset, 2021

Russell and Marian Morash, 2020

Florence Merriam Hill (posthumously), 2019

Mariann Berg (Hundahl) Appley, 69 Main Street, 2018

Dale Gary, Town Arborist, 2017

Paula Lundy Levy, Tuck’t In: A Walking Tour of Historic Prospect Hill Cemetery, 2016

Nantucket Conservation Foundation, 2014

Nantucket Garden Club, Main Street Horse Fountain, 2013

Charlotte and MacDonald Mathey, Hedged About, ’Sconset, 2012

Dr. and Mrs. John Espy, 4 New Dollar Lane, 2011

Marilyn Whitney, Moors End, 19 Pleasant Street, 2010

Caroline Ellis, ’Sconset Trust, Sankaty Head Lighthouse, 2009

JOHN A. AND KATHERINE S. LODGE STEWARDSHIP AWARD

The Phelan Family, 57-65 Pleasant Street, 2021

HallKeen Management, Academy Hill Apartments, 4 Westminster Street, 2020

Pacific Club Directors, The Pacific Club, 15 Main Street, 2020

Kristen Williams-Haseotes, Shanunga, 10 Broadway, Siasconset, 2019

The Harris Family, John Ray House, 8 Ray’s Court, 2018

Rodts Family, 5 Broadway, 2017

Constance Umberger, 3 Bear Street, 2017

Elizabeth Hilger, 139 Main Street, 2017

Noyes Family, 90 North Liberty Street, 2017

Mark and Gwenn Snider, Nantucket Hotel, 2016

Liz Coffin and Matt and Sheila Fee, 106 Main Street Façade, 2016

Jason Tilroe, 75 Main Street, 2015

Muriel Williams (posthumously), 4 Traders Lane, 2014

St. Paul’s Church in Nantucket, Stained Glass Restoration, 2013

Nantucket Historical Association, Photographic Image Archive, 2012

Fremont-Smith family, Atlantic House, ’Sconset, 2011

Margaret Yates Berkheimer (posthumously), 8 Pine Street, 2010

Sanford Kendall, numerous carpentry projects, 2009

Clarissa Porter, 5 Quince Street, 2008

Katherine S. Lodge, 94 Main Street, 2008

PAST AWARD RECIPIENTS - continued

TRADITIONAL BUILDING METHODS AWARD

Valley Restoration and the South Church Preservation Fund, 11 Orange Street, 2021

Ben Moore, Carpenter, 2020

Newton Millham, Blacksmith, 2019

Wayne Morris, Mason, 2018

John Wathne and Structures North, 2017

Brian FitzGibbon, Window Restorer, 2016

David Bergquist, Bergquist Masonry LLC, 2014

Sam and Ellen Phelan, property owners; Twig Perkins, contractor, 65 Pleasant Street, 2013

Curtis Livingston, 18 India Street, 2012

Michael Burrey, Timber Framer, 2011

Pen Austin, plaster and lime-mortar expert, 2010

HISTORICAL RENOVATION AWARD

Sherry Lefevre; Bill Willet, 30 Pine Street, 2021

Ken Jennings and Al Messina; Sandcastle Construction, 10 Martins Lane, 2020

Keith and Elizabeth Roe; Michael Sweeney Construction, 51B Centre Street, 2019

Paul McLeod and Jamie Pfaff, 29 Liberty Street, 2015

Angus and Deb MacLeod, Angus MacLeod Designs; Johnson, Stockton and Jones families, property owners, for 9, 12, 14, and 15 Pochick Street, ’Sconset, 2013

NEW CONSTRUCTION AWARD

George and Nell Wilson, 39 Main Street, Siasconset, 2019

Emeritus Development, Nantucket Yacht Club Dormitory, 4 South Beach Street, 2018

Elizabeth Churchill, Bentley & Churchill Architects, 5 Grand Avenue, 2017

Robert and Martha Lipp, 251 Polpis Road, 2015

EXCELLENCE IN PRESERVATION AWARD

University of Florida’s Preservation Institute: Nantucket, 2013

Brian Pfeiffer, 2012

Helen Seager, 1999

Walter Beinecke Jr., 1998

34 West Chester Street, 2022

MICHELLE ELZAY ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATION AWARD

34 West Chester Street

Karli & Jim Hagedorn, Homeowners

The Richard Gardner Jr. House at 34 West Chester Street, one of Nantucket’s oldest remaining vernacular timber-framed lean-to houses, constructed between 1722 and 1724, has been given fresh life for its next 300 years of occupancy. For decades it was the home of Jessica Woodle, who placed a preservation restriction on the property with the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England, in 1994. Karli and Jim Hagedorn acquired the property in late 2020 and, working within the restrictions set forth by the Historic New England easement, they hired a team including designer Ben Normand, NPT award-winning masons and plasterers Pen Austin and Colin Evans, preservation carpenters Nathaniel Allen, Chris O’Reilly, and Hollis Webb to update the house for the 21st century while paying utmost attention to preservation of its historic building fabric. All six fireplaces and their flues were restored, and parts of the timber frame that were rotted were replaced with white oak. The c. 1970 rear kitchen ell was reconfigured to be in keeping with the original time period of the house, and a new bake oven was built with historically appropriate details. All mechanical systems were upgraded using existing holes and chases, including adding a mini-split HVAC system, installed via a trench that was dug in the existing crawl space. Interior woodwork and flooring were hand sanded and refinished. Plaster walls were repaired as needed and painted with historically appropriate milk paint. Modern triple-track storm windows were removed, and new mahogany exterior storms were built to replace them. Carpenter Ben Moore, another past NPT award winner, constructed six plank frame windows to replicate existing windows where required. Jennifer Robinson of Historic New England oversaw work on the site to be sure it fit within the restrictions set forth in the preservation easement. Landscape architect Julie Jordin created a design for the site which complimented both the historic home and the adjacent Lily Pond. The work completed at 34 West Chester Street is a testament to how a home can accommodate modern conveniences while still preserving the highest degree of historic integrity.

CAROLINE A. ELLIS LANDSCAPE & GARDEN AWARD

The Creeks Preserve

174 Orange Street

Lucile Hays and the Nantucket Islands Land Bank

In 2019, Lucile Hays sold over eight acres of land at the Creeks to the Nantucket Land Bank, below its market value. The property at 174 Orange Street had been the Hays family retreat for decades, and in 2021, it was opened to the public as the Creeks Preserve. The new park facilitates stunning views of the harbor and Nantucket’s historic downtown for all, via handicap accessible walkways. Parts of a late20th century home were removed from the property, and a c.1890s tea house remains on the property as a testament to its history. The Hays’ guest house was moved to Fairgrounds Road, where today it provides housing for year-round Nantucket residents, and the garage was also reused. Horiuchi Solien Landscaping Inc. designed a landscape that is welcoming and incorporates many native plant species. The community benefit of an expansive, accessible park so close to the busy mid-island area will be enjoyed for generations to come.

Opposite: The Creeks Preserve, 2022

Below: The circa 1890s tea house at the Creeks Preserve, 2022, courtesy of Ben Normand

JOHN A. and KATHERINE S. LODGE STEWARDSHIP AWARD

The Nantucket Pharmacy • 45 Main Street

Allan Bell

Nantucket Pharmacy is a year-round cornerstone of Nantucket’s downtown. Allan Bell purchased the Nantucket Pharmacy business from Wally Knott in 1977 and acquired the c.1847 building in 1983. Whether you’re in need of a prescription refill, a greeting card, a bandage, a lipstick, a Nantucket souvenir, or an ice cream cone, you can find it at 45 Main Street. The historic doors and display windows, pressed tin ceiling, vintage counter stools, and the mid-century linoleum of floors all invoke memories and a feeling of stepping back in time. In 2007, Nantucket Pharmacy took over the business of neighboring Congdon’s Pharmacy when it closed, and as many essential businesses have shuttered or relocated outside of downtown, Nantucket Pharmacy has remained stalwart.

Nantucket Pharmacy, 45 Main Street, c. 1993, courtesy of Nantucket Historical Association

TRADITIONAL BUILDING METHODS AWARD

Colin Evans

Mason and plasterer Colin Evans first came to Nantucket in 2013. He began working as an apprentice of Pen Austin, learning traditional methods of working with lime masonry and plaster from her decades of experience. In recent years he has built his own business, Colin Evans Preservation and Restoration LLC. A dedicated preservationist, Colin has worked on numerous award-winning restoration projects on Nantucket, including 34 West Chester Street, 84 Main Street, 86 Main Street, and 55 Union Street. He currently serves as the caretaker for the Pacific Club on Main Street and has worked off-island on such projects as a restoration of George and Martha Washington’s tomb at Mount Vernon, alongside Pen Austin. After almost a decade of work on Nantucket, Colin continues to investigate his trade, materials used, and the histories surrounding the places he works. npt

Colin Evans at work at the Pacific Club

Join us at our 2023 Summer Lecture & Luncheon Architecture, Interiors & Landscape: The Power of Creative Collaboration

Featuring Thomas McManus and Andrew Oyen of Ferguson & Shamamian Architects

Thursday, July 20, 2023

11:30 a.m. at the Ballroom at the White Elephant Village

12 South Water Street

For more than thirty years, award-winning Ferguson & Shamamian Architects has been one of the country’s leading residential architecture firms, renowned for their mastery of traditional styles, unmatched dedication to craftsmanship, and dynamic sense of the creative interplay between clients, arc hitecture, interiors, and landscape. As illustrated in their 2021 book Collaborations: Architecture Interiors Landscape —which features an extensive body of work across the country including many projects in the Northeast— Ferguson & Shamamian’s singular approach to architectural design seamlessly harmonizes timeless, understated classical grandeur with a keen understanding of their clients’ tastes, personalities, and the rhythms of modern life.

For this talk,Thomas McManus and Andrew Oyen of Ferguson & Shamamian will pull back the curtain to show how the firm creates a dialogue between past and present, form and functionality to design residences that each have their own unique story, architectural directive, and custom details. As they open the doors to projects ranging from the shores of Nantucket to coastal Maine, Florida’s Jupiter Island to a rural property in Connecticut, they will share how Ferguson & Shamamian’s collaborative approach allows them to design truly one-of-a-kind residences that reflect the lives and personalities of their clients.

Purchase tickets online at nantucketpreservation.org

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18 th Annual August Fête

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Six O’clock in the Evening

Set Sail for India Street

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Alexander Coffin Pacific

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Franklin Constitution

Join us as we celebrate our 18th Annual August Fête and Set

Sail for India Street

We’re thrilled to host this year’s Fête on India Street, in the heart of Nantucket’s historic downtown, surrounded by well-preserved homes of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Join us for cocktails and hearty hors d’oeuvres as we tour 12 India Street, c.1835 • 17 India Street, c.1800

18 India Street, c.1769 • 35 India Street, c.1786 and 45 India Street, c.1804

Party tent will be located at 26 India Street

Nantucket Catering Company & LegaSea Raw Bar Music by the Shep Cats

Thursday, August 10, 2023 • 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Special Leadership Cocktail Preview at 5:30 p.m. Houses open from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

General admission tickets to the Fête go on sale June 15.

For tickets and information, please visit www.nantucketpreservation.org or call the NPT office at 508-228-1387.

Nantucket Preservation Trust is most grateful to our underwriters, sponsors, and Fête leaders.

We help responsible owners of the finest built homes care for the place that matters most.

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Starts August 7 | Sherburne Hall

Featuring work by island artists and artisans including Joan Albaugh, Barbara Clarke, Angel Evering, Eric Holch, Mary Emery Lacoursiere, Martha Polachi, Dale Rutherford, Barrie Sanders, Christine Sanford, Bill Sarni, Alison Smith, Deborah Van der Wolk, Heidi Weddendorf, and others

Tuesday, August 8, 5:00 to 7:00 P.M.

Visit www.nantucketpreservation.org for more information.

Auction donor list as of 4.4.23

Sherburne Hall 11 Centre St, Nantucket, MA 02554

2022 Exhibition Installation View

TALIA LARGE CHANDELIER IN GILD AND CLEAR SWIRLED GLASS

DESIGNER: JULIE NEILL

Are we throwing away our history?

Each year, Nantucket sends more than 17,000 tons of construction and demolition (C&D) waste to landfills in Ohio and Maine. That’s enough to fill more than 5,666 20-yard dumpsters, and more than 1 ton of waste per year-round island resident.

Approximate distribution of Total Estimated C&D waste by type of material (tons, % of total )

Research commissioned by Nantucket Preservation Trust and ReMain Nantucket in 2022 estimates that 4,500 tons of that C&D waste could be salvaged for reuse if Nantucket implemented deconstruction, not demolition, of buildings.

Scan the QR code to read our Nantucket Building Material Salvage Study

Carbon savings from salvaging 4,500 tons of waste is equivalent to taking 869 cars off the road.

25% Concrete/ Asphalt

3% Metals 2% Drywall

44% Wood

26% Other

Deconstruction and architectural Salvage • A Special Lecture

Please join Nantucket Preservation Trust and ReMain Nantucket on June 26 at 5:30 p.m. at the Nantucket Atheneum for a conversation with Stephanie Phillips, Deconstruction and Circular Economy Program Manager for the City of San Antonio. Stephanie will discuss her experiences in planning and implementing San Antonio’s deconstruction ordinance and the lessons learned along the way.

Communities across the country are exploring deconstruction as an alternative to mechanical demolition, salvaging what can’t be saved. Deconstruction diverts framing materials, fixtures, windows, doors and cabinets, and other building materials from the landfill and creates a circular economy.

Stephanie administers the largest deconstruction ordinance in the United States and the first implemented by an Office of Historic Preservation. Her role also focuses on strategic local partnership development, which has helped forge the Material Innovation Center at Port San Antonio; a research partnership with UT-San Antonio; and the integration of deconstruction contractor training into City workforce initiatives. Monday,

Stephanie Phillips

A Walk Down Main Street Tour

Tuesdays, 3 P.M.

Departs from 11 Centre Street, Nantucket Town

Learn about Main Street’s development, early residents, and architectural styles while exploring the area between the Pacific National Bank and the Civil War Monument.

’Sconset Village Tour

Thursdays, 3 P.M. (No tour 7/20, 7/27, or 8/10 )

Departs from 1 New Street, Siasconset

Join NPT Executive Director Mary Bergman to learn all about the unique fishing settlement and the village’s boom as a seaside resort and actors colony at the turn of the 20th century.

Codfish Park Tour

First and third Thursdays of each month, 2 P.M. (No tour 7/20)

Departs from 1 New Street, Siasconset

In our newest tour, learn about the unique ’Sconset neighborhood of Codfish Park and its important role in Nantucket’s history.

All our tours begin in the first week of June and run through October 5.

Tours are $15/person and reservations are required. Visit www.nantucketpreservation.org to sign up.

Private group tours are available throughout the year, beginning at $250/group.

Contact info@nantucketpreservation.org to learn more.

Preservation in Practice: town survey Plan uPdate

by Holly Backus Town of Nantucket Preservation Planner

After the Town of Nantucket became a Certified Local Government (CLG) with the National Park Service on March 19, 2021, the Town received a Survey & Planning Grant from the Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC), which is a federally funded, reimbursable 50/50 matching grant program to support historic preservation planning activities in communities throughout the Commonwealth. In FY21, Nantucket was awarded a $22,500 grant to update Survey Forms within the Fish Lots neighborhood and produce a Historic Survey Plan for Nantucket.The Survey Plan provides a list of ranked priorities for a phased comprehensive survey of neighborhoods with an action plan for implementing priority survey goals for inventory by neighborhood. It also includes a preliminary identification and assessment of the nature and location of historic, cultural, and architectural resources. The plan shows approximate quantities of buildings constructed before 1976, which are potential contributing structures.

The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. (PAL), a leading cultural resource management consulting firm based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, undertook the Nantucket Community-Wide Historic Properties Survey, Pilot Survey to document approximately 100 historic resources within the Fish Lots Neighborhood, one of the Town’s earliest historic centers of development that contains approximately 250 buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries. The survey was a pilot effort to begin an update of Nantucket’s historic resources survey. Properties are documented to better understand the historic resources of Nantucket and its development. This Pilot Survey resulted in one MHC Area Form A and 97 Building Form B inventory forms completed. All Form B’s can now be found on the MACRIS website and the Town’s Preservation Planning website. Eventually, they will be available on the Town’s GIS map.

Currently, PAL has undergone Phase II Survey Work of finishing the Fish Lots and started surveying in the Brant Point neighborhood for the FY22 Survey & Planning Grant Project. The Town received a FY23 grant to continue this important survey work of the Brant Point and downtown neighborhoods. Having updated surveys is critical to the protection of the thousands of historic resources on Nantucket, and the Town of Nantucket thanks those island nonprofits assisting in this important effort, including NPT! npt

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Joseph Lewis, Mariner

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Every year, NPT completes research for property owners to help unlock their home’s past. Deed research, the first step, can assist in uncovering key information such as who built a house, the first owner’s occupation, and the date of construction. We can use this information to mark a house and to provide a bit of history for the passerby.

1 West York Lane

West York Lane is located in an area of Nantucket historically known as Newtown, to the east of the harbor and downtown Nantucket. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Newtown, also called New Guinea, was a bustling mixed-race neighborhood, home to Nantucketers of African, Cape Verdean, Azorean, Irish, and Pacific Islander descent, as well as native Wampanoag people.

In 1836, the Reverend John W. Robinson (c.1788–1840) purchased 36 rods of vacant land in Newtown, about 0.225 acres, from Matthew Barney (1759–1839). John W. Robinson was a Black pastor, the reverend at the Zion Methodist Episcopal Church from 1832 to 1836, shown as being just across the street from 1 West York Lane on the 1858 map of Nantucket. The church building, originally a carpenter’s shop on Orange Street, had been moved to Newtown for use as a church in 1832. Robinson was born on St. Thomas, and prior to coming to Nantucket in the 1830s, had lived in Philadelphia, where he married Cecelia W. Scott (1789–1862). In December 1836, the reverend brought suit against Joseph Starbuck, perhaps the most successful whaling baron on Nantucket in the 1830s, who built the famous “Three Bricks” on Main Street as homes for his three sons. Robinson claimed that his son, John W. Robinson Jr., was illegally enticed to sign on to a whaling voyage aboard the Three Brothers in 1833, when he was a minor, without Robinson Sr.’s permission. John Jr. was flogged on board the ship and eventually deserted the vessel in Talcahuano, Chile, while the Three Brothers was en route back to Nantucket, fully laden with whale oil. John Sr. sued Joseph Starbuck for $500, and the issue was finally resolved in July 1839. John Sr. also had a daughter, Julia Robinson, who was born in Philadelphia but came to live on Nantucket along with her parents and brother.

In February 1840, Reverend John W. Robinson sold a portion of the land he owned on West York Lane, 10 rods, to Joseph Lewis (1812–1863), his soon-to-be son-in-law. Joseph was a mariner, originally from Sãu Nicolau in Cape Verde. The Cape Verde islands were a common stopover point for Nantucket whalers, and this Nantucket/ Cape Verde connection is likely how Joseph came to trade one island residence for another. The deed of sale to Joseph describes him as being “late of ship Henry ,” which had landed at Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard on January 11, 1840, carrying 2,100 barrels of sperm oil after a voyage of 38 months. While on this voyage, Joseph and three other sailors briefly deserted the ship while at port in Atacames, Ecuador, but returned aboard ten days later. Joseph Lewis married Julia W. Robinson (1821–1892) on June 21, 1840. Presumably the house at 1 West York Lane was constructed in early 1840 and completed either just before or after their marriage. By July 1841, when Joseph transferred ownership of his land and dwellinghouse to Julia, there was a house standing on the property. The 1850 Census recorded Joseph and Julia living together with their four children, John W. (1842–1863), Alexander (1845–1919), Celia (1849–1855), and Joseph Jr. (1850–1925).

By the 1860 Census, the Lewises had another child, Emma (1853–1917), and had taken in Julia’s mother, Cecelia. Joseph was still employed as a mariner, and his eldest son John, by then 18, had followed him into the profession. In the 1865 Massachusetts State census, Julia, by then a widow, was a domestic worker, and her sons Alexander and Joseph Jr. were both farmers. Julia worked in the household of the Barney family, at 96 Main Street, the mansion built by William Hadwen in 1846 that is today owned by the Nantucket Historical Association and open to the public seasonally. Joseph Jr. eventually went whaling as well, but by the time he reached adulthood in the late1860s, Nantucket’s whaling economy was on the decline. He sailed on board the Black Eagle on a voyage to the Hudson Bay’s Arctic whaling grounds in 1866 and 1867 and a voyage to the Pacific on the Falcon from 1867 to 1871. He was also the cook aboard the cargo clipper

Saint Nicholas from 1883 to 1886. In his later years, Joseph Jr. was the caretaker of the Old Mill, just up the street from his family home. Julia Lewis died on May 3, 1892, and 1 West York Lane was inherited by her children, Joseph Jr. and Emma. In 1888, the younger Joseph had had a home constructed for himself on the site of his grandfather’s former church, which had been demolished in 1882, today’s 32 York Street. Emma continued to reside in the family residence. In 1907, 1 West York Lane left the Lewis family when Emma sold the home to Henry Clay Chase.

In 2002, current owner Kathleen Conway, an attorney, acquired 1 West York Lane, and it has been her treasured island residence ever since.

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1 West York Lane with historic house marker, 2023

In researching a house, there is often the opportunity to bring to the fore characters from history who have sometimes gone unnoticed. Mary Swindel Phelan King is one of these figures in Nantucket’s history, who worked alongside her husband, Sam King, in management of the King Orchard.

65 Pleasant Street, 2022

From the forthcoming 61-65 Pleasant Street:The Phelan Family’s Nantucket Heritage

by Betsy Tyler

A Nantucket Preservation Trust Comprehensive House History

Mary Swindel Phelan (1810–76), married native Irishman Patrick Phelan (1805-38) in Nova Scotia in 1834. Patrick immigrated to Nova Scotia sometime between 1825 and 1834, bearing a letter of reference dated December 20, 1824, from Michael Hayden, Gardener to the Marquis of Waterford, whose estate, Curraghmore, in Waterford County, was one of the finest in Ireland.

Patrick was recommended to any prospective employer as “honest, sober, and very attentive . . . fully capable of managing any gentleman’s garden where [forcing] is carried on extensively.” Forcing, or growing a fruit or flower out of season, typically in a greenhouse, or under glass, was Patrick’s most laudable skill, but he may have been familiar with aspects of pomology practiced in the Curraghmore orchards. It seems likely that he continued to work as a gardener in Nova Scotia, perhaps in the apple orchards of the region. Patrick and Mary did not remain in Nova Scotia, by 1837 they had relocated to Nantucket. Patrick died a year later of tuberculosis.

Mary married cooper Sam King in 1841.In preparation for his new life as a married man and stepfather, Sam King purchased the house at 65 Pleasant Street from Moses H. Swift, shipwright, on September 17, 1841, less than a month before his wedding. Born in Londonderry, Ireland, King became a United States citizen in 1842.

Situated close to and facing Pleasant Street, King’s house was at the far southern edge of town. His property sat between the creeks a block away east of Orange Street, and, on the west side New

Guinea, the interracial neighborhood along Atlantic Avenue. He was fairly near the Newtown Gate, the entryway to the common lands between town and ‘Sconset. Fifty years later, when the 1881 Bird’s Eye View map of Nantucket was drawn, the area south and west of King’s house was still largely undeveloped, but may have been even more rural when Sam and his family moved in.

A three-bay typical house, with a stair hall on the left, a parlor on the right, and a bed chamber and kitchen behind, King’s house featured a central ridge chimney that provided hearths in all three rooms on the first floor, as well as the three bedchambers on the second floor. Small and cozy, the house withstood the October 1841 storm, just a week before King married Mary Phelan.

Like many Nantucket men, Sam King went to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. Unlike many of his fellow fortune seekers, Sam returned home. He expanded his property with the purchase of fiftyone rods of land near his house on Pleasant Street in 1851.

61 Pleasant Street, 2021

The fact that Sam King returned from California and immediately expanded his property suggests that the plan for a garden and orchard was already in place and the only missing piece was capital, which came from his year or more with the Astor Mining Company. The person most likely to have influenced Sam in this direction was his wife, Mary Phelan. Her first husband, Patrick, was an experienced gardener who had spent time in Nova Scotia possibly as an orchardist in the burgeoning apple-growing industry there. Perhaps they lived on the estate of Charles Prescott, the Johnny Appleseed of Canada, where Mary would have been an eyewitness to the methods of fruit cultivation. She may have lent a hand, too. As there was no fruit industry on Nantucket, and Sam had no obvious experience, Mary seems the probable candidate for encouraging and perhaps planning the new orchard on Pleasant Street.

Whatever the impetus and circumstances of King’s career change, it had taken root by 1856, when the Nantucket Weekly Mirror waxed eloquent on the subject of fruit culture in an article singling out King’s garden “now comparatively in its infancy:”

He has quite a large number of young and very thrifty pear trees, and is evidently not only much interested in this culture, but is familiar with approved methods. He has several varieties, some of which are particularly rich and finely flavored, as we have had occasion to know.We noticed one scion put in last spring, with a large Bartlett pear on it, and which might have produced others, if the blossoms had not been plucked off. We noticed another, set at the same time, that had grown five feet in less than five months, an indication certainly that pears can be successfully raised in this place.

Mary proved herself to be a strong woman, bearing five children, John and Mary, with her first husband, Patrick, and Robert, Mary Elizabeth, and Samuel W. with her second husband, Sam. Only Mary Elizabeth and John survived beyond eight years of age. Like many women of her time, Mary suffered much anguish due to deaths of a husband and three children, but she persevered. While Sam King was away on extended voyages, she kept the orchards and farm producing. Mary Swindel Phelan King died of consumption in Boston in 1876. npt

Build on the Past Train for the Future

Mary Helen and MicHael

FabacHer ScHolarSHip

The Mary Helen and Michael Fabacher Scholarship was established by the NPT (with generous support from the Fabachers) to offer Nantucketers the opportunity to enhance their building skills through a scholarship to the preservation carpentry program at the North Bennet Street School in Boston. Our goal in establishing this scholarship is to provide educational opportunities to encourage and promote traditional building methods essential for the preservation of Nantucket’s historic architecture.

In addition to the scholarship’s main goal, the program promotes understanding of traditional building methods by sponsoring field trips to the North Bennet Street School for middle- and high-school students, coordinating on-island demonstration projects for all age groups, and assisting the island building trades by offering short courses for learning traditional building methods.

Help us complete our scholarship endowment fund campaign by donating today. For more information about the scholarship program or to donate, email NPT’s Executive Director Mary Bergman at info@nantucketpreservation.org.

MARY HELEN AND MICHAEL FABACHER SCHOLARSHIP recipient Kevin Green

Kevin Green is in his second year of study at the North Bennet Street School (NBSS). He spent the summer working at Sanborn Mills Farm, a working farm with a mission to sustain and teach traditional farming and craft skills in Loudon, New Hampshire. One of the projects Kevin worked on was restoring a century-old greenhouse and making 20 by 20 windows for a structure on the property. He also spent time working in Sanborn Mills Farm’s sawmill, with an 1830s water powered up-and-down saw. Kevin writes, “This farm has some really amazing and historic buildings, and there are some beautiful vintage tools I’m learning to use.” Kevin hopes to return to Nantucket and work alongside fellow Fabacher Scholarship recipient and NBSS graduate Hollis Webb when he completes his studies later in 2023. Of Nantucket, Kevin says “I’m a washashore, but it’s home to me, and there is no place I’d rather be.” npt

Opposite: Kevin Green at work, 2023

There is a certain indefinable quality to Nantucket that sets it apart from other places. What draws people to Nantucket, and why do they return, year after year?

“I rounded Brant Point in 1975 and saw something I’d only seen before in pen-and-ink drawings. This was the real thing, happening as it still is,” a friend said, remembering his first stay on the island at Essex cottage on Old North Wharf. He recalled walking through town as the fog burned off on a summer morning.

Nantucket is a real place, not a stage set, and real places change. The role of historic preservation is to manage change, to ensure that the indelible qualities that make Nantucket a unique place remain. We all know the feeling of walking past a house we thought would always be there, only to find it has changed beyond recognition.

All of Nantucket is a National Historic Landmark and a Local Historic District. This brings certain protections, but our local control and national recognition alone will not save old Nantucket. Forward thinking planning by community minded families, individuals, and organizations, in the form of preservation restrictions, can protect the historic fabric of Nantucket inside and out.

A preservation easement is an agreement that runs with the land and is recorded in the Registry of Deeds. Easements are designed to protect the architectural integrity in perpetuity. Every year, we are losing more and more historic interiors to gut rehabs. But, we are also seeing an increase in families who are taking active steps to protect historic properties with a preservation easement. We are really only tenants of this place, this fragile island. There is a peace of mind that comes with knowing you are protecting Nantucket’s history for future generations.

Preservation easements remain the best tool available to ensure the long-term integrity of a building, especially since interior features are not protected by local legislation. In addition to preserving a piece of

the island’s history, an easement can also result in favorable tax benefits for the easement donation. Today, NPT holds 25 preservation restrictions with six restrictions under contract, to be recorded in the next two years. To put that in perspective, all 15 Cape Cod towns have 72 easements between them, and Martha’s Vineyard has just 14 preservation easements across the island’s six towns.

You do not need to live in a historic house to help NPT’s easement program. Drafting and administering preservation restrictions takes time and funds. We would love to talk with you about how your donation to NPT’s Clarissa Porter Easement Fund can help preserve the island for future generations. They, too, will know the unique joy of rounding Brant Point and seeing Nantucket come into view, just as they remember it.

CLARISSA PORTER PRESERVATION EASEMENT FUND

Clarissa Porter (1939–2012), a former NPT board member, was a tireless and passionate advocate for preservation and had a lifelong love of Nantucket and its historic architecture. She served as a member, since its inception, of the NPT Easement Committee, and her diligent work led directly to preservation easements on several properties and raised awareness of NPT and its mission.

Clarissa’s summer home at 5 Quince Street became the first property on the island to have its interior features protected by a preservation restriction. Because of Clarissa’s generosity and passion for historic Nantucket, the easement program is named in her honor.

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First Congregational Church and Old North Vestry

62 Centre Street

Quaker Meeting House 7 Fair Street

George G. Folger House 25 Fair Street (pending)

Fire Hose Cart House 8 Gardner Street

Daniel Worth House 10 Gardner Street (pending)

Greater Light 8 Howard Street

The Nantucket Atheneum 1 India Street

Hospital Thrift Shop 17 India Street

Mitchell-Beinecke House

69 Main Street

Jabez Bunker/Prince Gardner House

85 Main Street

Captain Thaddeus Coffin House 89 Main Street

Hadwen-Wright House 94 Main Street

Thomas Starbuck House 11 Milk Street

1800 House 4 Mill Street

Rescom Palmer House 9 New Mill Street

Antone Sylvia Grocery Store 79 Orange Street

Grafton Gardner House 8 Pine Street

David Swain 2nd House 43 Pine Street (pending)

Nathaniel Hussey House 5 Quince Street

Captain Peleg Bunker House 4 Traders Lane

Nicholson-Andrews House 55 Union Street

Maria Mitchell Birthplace 1 Vestal Street

Maria Mitchell Library Vestal Street

Maria Mitchell Observatory Vestal Street (pending)

American Legion 21 Washington Street

Nantucket Island School of Design (Sea View Farm) 23 Wauwinet Road

Surfside Life Saving Station 31 Western Avenue

Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin Lancasterian School 4 Winter Street

Boston-Higginbotham House 27 York Street

HIGHLIGHTS

PRESERVATION SYMPOSIUM

In June 2022, Nantucket PreservationTrust, in partnership with the Preservation Institute Nantucket and with underwriting support from ReMain Nantucket, brought scholars from across the country to Nantucket to speak on the theme New Narratives in historic preservation. Scholars from leading academic institutions and museums shared how they are broadening the stories told by their institutions, and a panel of Nantucket writers and researchers shared their work.

SALVAGE STUDY

NPT worked with consultants from EBP of Cambridge, in collaboration with ReMain Nantucket, to complete a two-phase feasibility study about architectural salvage, building materials reuse, and deconstruction.

PIN 50

Our partners at the Preservation Institute Nantucket celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2022, with a weekend-long exhibit and gathering at Sherburne Hall in October. We look forward to many more years of collaboration between NPT and PIN!

WPI SOLAR PROJECT

NPT Executive Director Mary Bergman, alongside Town of Nantucket Preservation Planner Holly Backus and Energy Coordinator Lauren Sinatra, advised a team of students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute who explored how other historic coastal communities have incorporated solar energy into their historic district guidelines and surveyed the Nantucket community on attitudes related to solar power. Their final report offered suggestions for how to balance Nantucket’s historic aesthetic and need for renewable energy.

AWARDS

In 2022, NPT marked the sixteenth consecutive year of its awards program, which has honored dozens of owners, preservationists, and craftspeople. Over one hundred members, members of the preservation community, and award recipients and their families attended the September 30th awards ceremony held at historic Sherburne Hall.

NPT’s CORE PROGRAMS, MARKERS,

HISTORIES, and EASEMENTS provide the opportunity to educate, document, and protect the island’s historic properties. In 2022, NPT completed 14 markers and nine new house histories.

PRESERVATION IN PERPETUITY

In 2022, NPT recorded one new preservation easement at 55 Union Street, the c.1834 Nicholson-Andrews House, winner of NPT’s Architectural Preservation Award in 2016, and home of Michelle Elzay. Read more about the history and future of our easement program beginning on page 73.

SCHOLARSHIP

Kevin Green of Nantucket was awarded a partial scholarship to the North Bennet Street School’s Preservation Carpentry Program. He will complete his studies in May 2023. See page 69 for additional information about the Mary Helen & Michael Fabacher Scholarship Fund.

FUND AND FRIEND RAISERS

Our Annual August Fête returned to an in-person event in 2022. We celebrated the historic hamlet of Quidnet on Nantucket’s eastern shore. Though weather concerns forced a relocation of the party site to the ’Sconset Casino, Quidnet residents shared their stories and memories of the unique spot north of Sesachacha Pond. Our Sense of Place Exhibition and Auction continued with a wonderful display in Sherburne Hall and online bidding.

With thanks to our supporters

SENSE OF PLACE SOCIETY

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Ainslie Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Alan F. Airth

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bailey, Jr.

Mrs. Walter F. Ballinger, II

The Margaret Ritchie R. Battle Family Charitable Fund

Mr. and Mrs. David S. J. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Buck

Ms. Amanda Cross

Mr. Andrew Forsyth and Ms. Kelly Williams

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Friedman

Ms. Karyn McLaughlin Frist

Mr. Mark H. Gottwald

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Greenberg

Mr. and Mrs. James Hagedorn

Ms. Cassandra H. Henderson

Mr. and Mrs. Christian Hoffman

Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr.

Ms. Wendy Hubbell

Mr. Jon M. King and Mr. John H. Ehrlich

Mr. Michael A. Kovner and Mr. Jean Doyen de Montaillou

Mrs. Byron Lingeman

Mr. Charles W. Loeb, Jr. and Ms. Sandy Murphy

Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Maffeo

Ms. Sarah Noelle McLane

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Menschel

Mr. Albert S. Messina and Mr. Ken Jennings

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Moore, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Craig H. Muhlhauser

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Peek

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Phelan

Mrs. Ella Wall Prichard

Mr. and Mrs. Greg Spivy

Mr. and Mrs. John Sussek, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. James Treyz

Ms. Pam Waller

Leader Members

Mr. James W. Abbott and Ms. Debby Vander Woude

Mr. and Mrs. Leigh J. Abramson

Mr. Jeffrey Allen and Ms. Betty Browning

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas C. Amendolare

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar D. Ancona

Mr. Duncan M. Anderson

Mr. Ernesto C. Anguilla

Ms. Mariann Berg (Hundahl) Appley

Mr. and Mrs. Chris W. Armstrong

Mrs. Gale H. Arnold

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Bailey

Mrs. Anne D. Bailliere

Mr.William Klein and Ms. Blue Balliett

Mr. and Mrs. David H. Barlow

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Beaugrand

Mr. Allan D. Bell

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Beller

Mr. and Mrs. Nils Berglund

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Besecker

Mr. Joseph Bonacci

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bousa

Mr. and Mrs.Victor H. Boyajian

Mr. Guy Bristow and Ms. Barbara Presta

Mr. Paul Brody and Ms. Debra Goldstein

Mr. and Mrs. David A. Brownlee

Mrs. Lisa-Margaret Stevenson Bryan

Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Buechle

Mr. and Mrs. Barrett Burns

Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Callahan

Ms. Caroline Cole

Mr. and Mrs. Erik Caspersen

Mr. and Mrs. G. David Cheek

Mr. and Mrs. Jack N. Clevenger

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Colliton

Ms. Susan M. Cosper and Mr. Brian Bartlett

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Craven

Miss Hilary H. Cunniff

Ms. Anne Delaney and Mr. Calvin Carver, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Dimeo

Ms. Sascha Douglass

Dr. and Mrs.William H. Druckemiller

Ms.Trudy Dujardin

Mr. Lee Dunn and Mrs.Tharon Dunn

Edward H. Benenson Foundation

Ms. Ann G. Ellicott

Ms. Diane Elliott

Mr. Michael P. Elzay

Ms. Michelle Elzay† and Mr. Matthew Brannon

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Fabacher

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fahrenkopf

Ms.Tracy Falconer

Mr. and Mrs.W. Gerard Fallon

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Filipski

Mr. Eric Finger and Ms. Jascin Leonardo Finger

Mr. and Mrs. Johan F. Firmenich

Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Fowler

Mr. Robert Franklin and Mr. Charles Mappin

Mr. Joseph S. Freeman

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Fremont-Smith

Mrs. Charles M. Geschke

Ms. Rose Gonnella and Mr. Frank Holahan

Ms. Melanie L. Gowen

Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Greenberg

Ms.Toby Greenberg

Mr. Ethan B. Griffin

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Griswold, IV

Mr. Peter J. Grua and Ms. Mary O’Connell

The Hon. and Mrs. Ray W. Grubbs

Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Gutman

Mr. and Mrs. Jay M. Hammer

Mrs. Donald C. Harris

Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Hay

Mrs.William H. Hays, III

Ms. Hillary C. Hedges and Mr. Jeffrey F. Rayport

Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Heyda

Mr. Frank Hicks

Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Holmes

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Holt, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Holt

Dr. Douglas Horst and Ms. Maureen Phillips

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Jennison

Dr. Ann L. and Mr. Charles B. Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. David B. Johnson

Ms. Barbara Ann Joyce

The Judy Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs.Woodward Kay

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Kelly

Mr. Jonathan S. King

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kinsley

Ms. Carolyn M. Knutson

Mr. and Mrs. Arie L. Kopelman

Mr. Daniel Lynn Korengold and Ms. Martha Lyn Dippell

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Korngold

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Kraeutler

Mr. and Mrs.William P. Kupper, Jr.

Ms. Sarah Landman

Ms. Michelle Langlois and Mr. Hugh Dickinson

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Larsen

Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Lawrence

Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Lee

Ms. Sherry A. LeFevre

Ms. Priscilla P. Lentowski

Dr. and Mrs. Keith M. Lindgren

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Lochtefeld

Ms. Cheryl Lockwood

Ms. Katherine Mary Logue

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Lopez

Mr. Richard W. Lowry

Ms. Mary-Adair Macaire

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew MacEachern

Mr. and Mrs. Angus S. MacLeod

Mrs. Anne Maletta

Mrs. Marilee B. Matteson

Mr. Michael May and Mr. Housley Carr

Mr. Gary McBournie and Mr.William J. Richards

Mr. and Mrs. Edward McCarthy

Mr. and Mrs. Peter McCausland

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. McGrath

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene G. McGuire

Mr. and Mrs. Martin McKerrow

Mr. James Meehan and Ms. Patricia White

Mr. Jason Michel

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Miklos

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Millard

Mr. and Mrs. Earl B. Mix

Ms. Emily Molden

Mr. and Mrs.Thomas M. Montgomery

Mr. and Mrs.W. Christopher Mortenson

Mr. and Mrs. George R. Mrkonic, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T. Mundy

Mr.Thomas Maxwell Mundy and Rev. J. Carr Holland, III

Mr. and Mrs. David Northrup

Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Norton

Mr. and Mrs. Al Novissimo, Novation Media

Mr. and Mrs. G. Philip Nowak

Ms. Sarah Ondaatje

The Osceola Foundation

Dr. Eileen Ouellette

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Paduch

Mr. Joseph R. Paul

Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Phelan

Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel D. Philbrick

Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Pidcock

Ms. Kristene Pierce

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Pierson

Ms. Diane Pitt and Mr. Mitch Karlin

Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Polachi, Jr.

Ms. Alison Potts and Mr. Mark Groenstein

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Putterman

The Racemaker Charitable Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Raysman

Mr. and Mrs. Philip W. Read

Ms. Susan L. Renzulli

Mr. and Mrs.Thomas Richards

Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy P. Richardson

Mr. Colin Riendeau

Mr. and Mrs. J. Barton Riley

Mr. and Mrs. George E. Roach

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Rose

Ms. Elizabeth F. Rosenman

Ellen and David Ross

Mr. and Mrs. Milton C. Rowland

Dr. Alicia M. Ruggiero and Mr. Patrick E. Burnett

Ms. Linda L. Saligman

Mr. and Mrs. Luke Salisbury

Mr. Charles R. Lenhart and Mr. Robert C. Newman, Sandcastle Construction, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Sayer

Mr. and Mrs. Cary M. Schwartz

Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Schwarzman

Mrs. Nancy Tower Scott

Mr. J. Douglas Self, Jr.

Mr. James Donald Shockey and Ms. Mary Farland

Mr. and Mrs. David Joel Spitler

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Stahler

Mr. Peter C. Steingraber

Dr.Taylor Stoermer

Mr. and Mrs. Harris Stone

Mr. and Mrs. Jordan M. Stone

Ms. Betsey Von Summer and Mr. John Moller

Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. C. Sullivan

Mr. and Mrs. Greg Swart

Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Sweatland, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Sweeney

Mr. Cameron Texter and Ms. Devon White

Ms. Gloria Jarecki

Mr. Richard G.Verney

Ms. Anne W. Troutman and Mr. Aleks Istanbullu

Mrs. Jane Tyler

Ms. Diane Valente

Mr. George N.Vasvatekis

Mr. and Mrs. Robert I.Veghte

Mr. and Mrs. E. Geoffrey Verney

Ms. Lynda Vickers-Smith

Ms. Maryann Wasik

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Webb, III

Mrs. David Webber

Mr. and Mrs. F. Helmut Weymar

Mr. and Mrs. F. Brand Whitlock

Mr. and Mrs. John R.Whitney

Mr. and Mrs. Jay M.Wilson

Mr. and Mrs. David S.Wolff

Drs Robert A. and Elaine E.Yordan

*Every effort was made to ensure the above and following lists are complete and accurate. If an error of omission was made at press time, please don’t hesitate to let us know by emailing us at info@nantucketpreservation.org. Thank you.

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Anonymous

Ms. Joan P. Albaugh

Ms. Karen Maeda Allman and Ms. Elizabeth Wales

Mr. and Mrs. Pennel C. Ames

Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Anderson

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Arvay

Ms. H. Joan Badi

Mr. and Mrs. David S. Bailey

VADM and Mrs. John A. Baldwin, USN (RET)

Ms. Laura Barkan

Mr. Curtis L. Barnes

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Barney, III

Mr. and Mrs. C. Marshall Beale

Mr. and Mrs. David Beardsley

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Belash

Ms. Susan Blair and Mr. David Shukis

Mr. and Mrs. Neil M. Blume

Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Boling, Jr.

Ms. Ann P. Bond

Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Boucai

Ms. Jane Bourette

Mr. Steven L. Boynton

Mr. and Mrs. William F. Brandt, Jr.

Ms. Elisabeth Bumiller and

Mr. Steven R. Weisman

Mrs. Martha H. Butler

Mr. Charles Byrne and Ms. Ellen Mitchell

Mrs. Susan H. Cavanaugh

Ms. Marion Roland Conley

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Cook

Mr. and Mrs. John J. Cowden, Jr.

Mr. Peter Cowenhoven

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Creem

Prof. J. Scott Finn and Mr. Charles Caldwell

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Folberth, III

Ms. Ingrid Francis

Mr. J. Pepper Frazier, II

Mr. Roland Frye and Ms. Susan Pettey

Drs. Margaret B. and John N. Goldman

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gosh

Mr. Richard N. Gray and Ms. Joanne T. Lawrence

Ms. Victoria A. Greenhood and Mr. Robert B. Remar

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Groff

Mr. and Mrs. Philip G. Gulley

Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Gustaveson

Ms. Ellen H. Hakes

Ms. Barbara Halsted

Mrs. Andrea Hamor

Mr. and Mrs. Dudley M. Harde

Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Haydock

Ms. Cary M. Hazlegrove

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Helms

Mr. Joseph P. Helyar

Ms. Elizabeth K. Hillger

Mr. and Mrs. Mark O. Hubbard

Mr.† and Mrs. Richard Irwin

Ms. Diane H. Karper

Ms. Kerry Kennedy Flynn

Dr. Leslee Keys

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Kotchen

Ms. Kathryn Kubie

Mr.† and Mrs. John G. Lathrop

Mr. Michael R. Lazerwitz and Ms. Alison J. Barr

Mr. and Mrs. Larry S. Levine

Mr. Richard C. Crisson and Mr. Rod O’Hanley

Mr. Timothy G. Crowley

Mr. and Mrs. Kell M. Damsgaard

Mrs. Sheila B. Daume

Ms. Alice I. Davies

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Deck

Mr. and Mrs. David S. Deutsch

Ms. Helen Dubois

Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Durkes

Ms. Barbara Erskine

Ms. Marsha Fader

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew G. Fee

Mr. Robert D. Felch

Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Ference-Gray

Ms. Leslie Linsley

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Lochtefeld

Ms. Mary Longacre

Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Lorenzo

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Lothian

Mr. and Mrs. Brandon W. Lower

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Lowy

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander C. MacCormick

Ms. Janet C. MacKay and Mr. Frank P. Hanlon

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin B. Mahoney

Ms. Rosalie Maloney

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Marinelli

Ms. Paula McLeod and Mr. Jamie Pfaff

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. McNeil III

Mr. and Mrs. R. Alan Medaugh

Mr. and Mrs. Richardson T. Merriman

Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Metcalf

Mr. Hal Miller

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Miller, IV

Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Milone

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Mittenthal

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Moore, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Morris

Ms. Deneige Barlow Nash

Mr. and Mrs. Craig A. Negri

The Honorable and Mrs. R. James Nicholson

Mr. and Mrs. Rick Nopper

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Obletz

Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Ostrander

Mrs. Mary Alyce Pardo

Ms. Nancy L. Pasley

Ms. Anne MacLennan Perkins

Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Perlman

Mr. Brian R. Pfeiffer

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pinto

Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Pollack

Ms. Cynthia Porrini

Dr. Tyler Putman

Dr. and Mrs. Frank Rand

Dr. Shirley F. Rayport

Mr. and Mrs. George M. Rich

Ms. Tara Roberts

Ms. Janet L. Robinson

Dr. Philip C. Ross and Ms. Michele Kolb

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Rutherford

Mr. J. Wood Rutter

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Schaperkotter

Ms. Kathryn K. Sheehan

Mr. and Mrs. Ross Silverstein

Mr. and Mrs. H. Brooks Smith

Ms. Penny Snow

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Snow

Ms. Lisa P. Soeder

Ms. Mary Beth Splaine and Mr. Jack Weinhold

Dr. Robert Stanton and Ms. Mandy Noschese

Ms. Sarah T. Stephenson

Ms. Laura F. Stockwell

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sullivan

Mr. and Mrs. John Sussek, III

Mr. Jonathan C. Swain

Ms. Ann R. Teasdale

Mr. Geoffrey Tolsdorf

Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Tudor

Mr. Samuel H. Turner, II

Mr. and Mrs. James G. Tyler

Ms. Clara Urbahn

Ms. Yvonne Vaillancourt

Ms. Pamela Van Hoven Clark

Mr. and Mrs. Robert von Zumbusch

Ms. Kimberly K. Walin

Mr. and Mrs. A. Charles Walters

Ms. Emma H. Ward

Ms. Suellen Ward and Mr. John H. Copenhaver

Mr. and Mrs. David Webber

Mr. Todd K. West

Mrs. Barbara C. White

Ms. Jill Wolfe

Ms. Konstantina Zaras

in honor of

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Lochtefeld in honor of Irma Hoops

Mr. Thomas Maxwell Mundy and Rev. J. Carr Holland III in honor of Mary Bergman

in memoriam gifts

Mr. Joseph Freeman in memory of Cynthia Freeman

Ms. Emily Molden in memory of Niki Toole

Mr. Ernesto C. Anguilla in memory of Garret P. Cowenhoven

Mr. Cameron Texter and Ms. Devon White in memory of William Owen

Grant Funders

The Community Foundation for Nantucket’s ReMain Nantucket Fund

ReMain Nantucket

business sponsors & event Underwriters

ACKtivities

Carolyn Thayer Interiors

Dujardin Design Associates, Inc.

Kathleen Hay Designs

M. Sweeney Construction

Maine & ACK HVAC

Marine Home Center

Moore Woodworking, Inc.

Nantucket Insurance Agency, Inc.

Nantucket Looms

Nantucket PhotoArt

New England Home

Novation Media

PURE Insurance

Silvercrest Asset Management

Susan Lister Locke

Tradewind Aviation

Weatherly Design, LLC

Program and event leaders

Mrs. Carol Atkinson

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bailey, Jr.

Mrs. Walter F. Ballinger, II

The Margaret Ritchie R. Battle Family Charitable Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Beaugrand

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bousa

Mr. Guy Bristow and Ms. Barbara Presta

Mr. and Mrs. David S. J. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Buck

Mr. and Mrs. G. David Cheek

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony A. Clifton

Ms. Susan M. Cosper and Mr. Brian Bartlett

Ms. Amanda B. Cross

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Dewez

Ms. Dorinda Dodge

Mr. and Mrs. Douglass N. Ellis, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Fabacher

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Filipski

Mr. Robert Franklin and Mr. Charles Mappin

Ms. Rose Gonnella and Mr. Frank Holahan

Ms. Susan Zises Green

Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Greenberg

Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Grote

Ms. Victoria Hagan and Mr. Michael Berman

Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Hale

Ms. Cassandra H. Henderson

Dr. Paula Henderson

Mr. and Mrs. Christian Hoffman

Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Holmes

Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Kelly

Mr. Jon M. King and Mr. John H. Ehrlich

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kinsley

Ms. Adrienne Kirby

Ms. Carolyn M. Knutson

Mr. Daniel Lynn Korengold and Ms. Martha Lyn Dippell

Mr. Paul Kosak and Ms. Anouk van der Boor

Mr. Michael A. Kovner and Mr. Jean Doyen de Montaillou

Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Lorenzo

Mr. and Mrs. Angus S. MacLeod

Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Maffeo

Mrs. Seymour Mandell

Mr. and Mrs. Peter McCausland

Ms. Sarah Noelle McLane

Mr. Albert S. Messina and Mr. Ken Jennings

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Moore, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Craig H. Muhlhauser

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Muldoon

Ms. Kristene Pierce

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Pierson

Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Pinson

Ms. Alison Potts and Mr. Mark Groenstein

Mrs. Ella Wall Prichard

Ms. Hillary C. Hedges and Mr. Jeffrey F. Rayport

Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy P. Richardson

Mr. and Mrs. George E. Roach

Ms. Bonnie Roseman

Ellen and David Ross

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Ross

Dr. Alicia M. Ruggiero and Mr. Patrick E. Burnett

Mrs. Bonnie J. Sacerdote

Ms. Linda L. Saligman

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Saul

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Sayer

Mrs. Nancy Tower Scott

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Serafini

Mrs. Marcia Shiff

Mr. James Donald Shockey and Ms. Mary Farland

Ms. Susan Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Greg Spivy

Mr. Peter C. Steingraber

Mr. and Mrs. Harris Stone

Ms. Betsey Von Summer and Mr. John Moller

Mr. and Mrs. John Sussek, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Greg Swart

Mrs. Edward Symes

Ms. Lynda Vickers-Smith

Mrs. David Webber

Mr. and Mrs. David S. Wolff

Mr. and Mrs. P. Rhoads Zimmerman

COMMITTEE MEMBERS & VOLUNTEERS

Kathy Arvay

Mary-Randolph Ballinger

Gussie Beaugrand

Craig Beni

Susan Boardman

Paulette Boling

Alyssa Corry

Chris Dallmus

Beth Davies

Trudy Dujardin

John Ehrlich

Caroline Ellis

Michelle Elzay †

Marsha Fader

Jascin Leonardo Finger

Leslie Forbes

Michael Gault

Melanie Gowen

Susan Zises Green

Suzy Grote

Victoria Hagan

Barbara Halsted

Julie Jordin

Jon King

Carol Kinsley

Jelena Krivokapic

Jackie Kupper

*Every effort was made to ensure the above and following lists are complete and accurate. If an error of omission was made at press time, please don’t hesitate to let us know by emailing us at info@nantucketpreservation.org.

Thank you.

Angus MacLeod

Joanne Morgan

Brigid O’Riordan

Karen Pinson

Ella Wall Prichard

Allison Rice

Mickey Rowland

Marie Sussek

Ann Swart

Kate Swart

Michael Sweeney

Anne Troutman

Cathy Ward

Paula Williams

† Deceased

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EndNote

ast year marked the 50th anniversary of Nantucket’s expansion of our local historic district from what we now call the Old Historic District and the ’Sconset Old Historic District Prior to 1972, only these small areas were protected by the Historic District Commission (HDC).

The 1970 Town Meeting body voted in favor of extending the historic district to include all the lands and waters of the Town of Nantucket. This law went into effect in 1972.

Nantucket has lived with the largest conventional historic district in the country for fifty years. The design guidelines in Building with Nantucket in Mind and the careful interpretation of them by the Commissioners has been key to our success as a heritage tourism destination.

It is no secret that real estate on Nantucket continues to be big business. The HDC does a herculean job of reviewing every application for a change to the exterior of a building. Whether you want to paint your door pink or build a new house, the HDC must weigh in. It’s estimated the HDC receives one hundred applications a week. Other historic districts on the Cape receive 40 a month.

The HDC cannot do this alone. For many years, the HDC had support in the form of four advisory boards, the Historic Structures Advisory Board, ’Sconset Advisory Board, Madaket Advisory Board, and Tuckernuck Advisory Board. These groups met weekly to review HDC applications for their various areas, offered suggestions as to appropriateness for the neighborhood, and provided specialized insight and historical information that helped the HDC approve or deny applications.

Last August, these advisory groups were disbanded. Members were told there was no legal standing for the HDC to appoint their own advisory boards. Either the Select Board would need to create and appoint these boards, or the Town’s bylaws would need to be amended to allow for these groups to exist. We understand the wheels of government turn slowly, but the pace of construction is relentless. We are grateful to the members of these advisory boards who have continued to offer public comment on applications of a historic nature.

It is true that few other places in the country have advisory boards for their historic districts. But Nantucket is like no other place in the country. Preservation of an entire island—three islands, technically—is large scale work that requires all the help we can get.

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Monday, June 26, 5:30 P.M.

Nantucket Atheneum Great Hall

Thursday, July 20, 11:30 A.M.

The Ballroom at the White Elephant Village

Thursday, July 27, 4:00 P.M.

Sherburne Hall

Tuesday, August 8, 5:00 -7:00 P.M.

Sherburne Hall

Thursday, August 10, 6:00 P.M.

Thursday, September 28

Sherburne Hall

Bernadette Meyer represented the seller of this historic home at 8 Gull Island Lane, Nantucket, in 2022.

Photo by Marco Ricca