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(rshsdepot) Durham, NH
From the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Bernie Wagenblast
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Restoration efforts win Preservation Awards
May 13, 2009
By Paula Tracy
CONCORD - Outstanding restoration of the state`s historic treasures and the
volunteers who made it happen were lauded last night at the Concord City
Auditorium.
Winning the 2009 Preservation Achievement Awards were projects in Temple,
Lebanon, Portsmouth, Hanover, Durham, Lisbon, Gilmanton, Hampton, Haverhill,
Bath, Henniker, Newbury and Nashua.
The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance has held these awards the past 20
years to celebrate innovation and the yankee spirit of making more of
buildings which are a cultural part of New Hampshire. The alliance has given
out almost 140 awards over the years.
This year, 13 awards were given in categories ranging from adaptive reuse of
a structure -- such as the moving of an old barn in North Hampton to be the
new Gilmanton Town Hall -- to outstanding preservation of a landscape: The
Fells on Lake Sunapee in Newbury.
More than 200 attended the event, at which the projects were showcased on a
movie screen.
Paula Cabot of the alliance`s board of directors welcomed the gathering, as
did members of Nashua`s Fairgrounds Middle School student historic
preservation team.
The Nashua kids, which helped fix the Mine Falls Park Gatehouse, gave the
leadoff, first gift of $191 to the Weeks Estate in Lancaster for a
preservation effort which is about to get under way.
Achievement awards winners were:
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- -- University of New Hampshire, for outstanding renovation of the Boston &
Maine Railroad Depot for the UNH-Durham Transit Station. Originally
constructed in 1896 in Lynn, Mass., and relocated to Durham in 1911, it
served the town and university until passenger rail ceased in the 1960s and
then became a dairy bar. Since 2001, when Amtrak revived the line from
Boston to Portland, this station has once again returned to rail use.
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