1. Nashawannuck Pond Promenade Park, Easthampton
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| Photo by Mary Serreze |
2. Gillett Cigar Factory, Southwick
Although it was in very good condition structurally, the building was scheduled for demolition to make way for a new CVS. Thanks to grants from Southwick's CPA fund, the building was carefully dismantled and moved down the road to land owned by the Southwick Historical Society. The factory is now open to the public as a museum.
3. Lenox Library, Lenox
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| Photo by John Phelan |
The Lenox Library, built 1815-1816, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was owned by a private library association which began to experience severe financial trouble. The town voted to use its CPA funds to pay the annual debt service incurred on a ten year bond for the purpose of purchasing the Library building, and save it from possible foreclosure. The purchase also allowed Lenox to acquire a small park located on the side of the library that had been eyed for development. This park is now permanently available for the enjoyment of the townspeople.
4. Preservation of 839 Acres, Sturbridge
The former Camp Robinson Crusoe abutting Old Sturbridge Village is the largest open space acquisition on record in the State using Community Preservation Act funds. The $3.8 million land purchase helped ensure the future of adjacent Old Sturbridge Village museum. The land is now permanently protected as open space, and is open to the public for passive recreational uses such as hiking, fishing, cross-country skiing, hunting, and horseback riding.
5. Cable Mills Adaptive Reuse Project, Williamstown
While still under construction the $27 million project involves the use of $1.5 million in CPA funds to construct 61 rental units, 13 of them set aside for homebuyers at or below 80% of the areawide median income. The 132-year-old former factory consists of three mill buildings on a nine-acre site. The project will create a publicly accessible riverwalk that will stretch the entire length of the site along the Green River, and place historic preservation easements on the original buildings. Future phases will add townhouses, duplexes, and potentially some commercial development.
6. Bean/Allard Farm, Northampton
Sojourner Truth, farmed this 181-acre parcel in the 19th century containing some of the richest farm soils in the world. But the fate of the landscape was uncertain, and the subject of a local tug-of-war. In December of 2010 the Trust for Public Land purchased the 44-acre Bean Farm and the adjacent 136-acre Allard Farm for $2.46 million with the help of $910,000 in CPA funds, 24 of these acres have been set aside for active recreation, 35 acres of forest conserved as part of the Mill River Greenway, and the remaining land devoted to agriculture. CPA funds were also used to develop 17-acres of the farmland as a community garden.
7. Forbes Library, Northampton
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| Photo by Kevin Rutherford |
The magnificent Forbes Library was granted $1 million in CPA funds to complete restoration and repair to exterior walls, roof, portico and windows. Built in the 1890's the library includes an extensive local history and genealogy collection for Hampshire County as well as the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum. The Library was designed by architect William C. Brocklesby of Hartford in a style known as Richardsonian Romanesque, named after the work of Henry Hobson Richardson who designed Holyoke's long neglected Connecticut River Railroad Station.
