‘It’s the ultimate needle in the haystack; everything has to line up.’
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“In terms of priorities for annual budgeting, putting money into vacant historic buildings isn’t always a high priority, so it’s a funding challenge, but it’s also an use challenge,” said Kevin Allen, who has managed Massachusetts’ program for the past 15 years. “We can preserve a building that’s four walls and looks great — and we do that sometimes —but to really keep a building alive it needs to be occupied.
Eventually, they fell in love with a little clapboard building known as the Dodge House, set south facing on a hill in Bradley Palmer State Park in the town of Hamilton. “It’s one thing to watch HGTV and think ‘oh I’m going to sand the balusters on the weekend,’ and then you step into the house and see the raccoon guano hanging out of the ceiling and suddenly your romantic interests are crushed,” Allen said. “It really is a trial by fire.”
In Massachusetts, where leases range from 10 to 50 years, Allen estimated that resident curators of single-family properties spend roughly $500,000 to $1 million over time on restoration and upkeep. Stephanie Langton, who manages the resident curator program for the Fairfax County Park Authority in Virginia, said that her resident curators tend to spend between $150,000 to $400,000 over the course of their 10 to 20 year leases.
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