Vermont Housing Conservation Board 2005 - Vermont Housing and ...

Conservation Awards July 2004 –June 2005
Lake Champlain Land Trust
Organizational Development Grant. 27,000
grant for organizational development costs.
Total organizational budget: 850,000.
Middlebury Area Land Trust
Organizational Development Grant. 12,000
grant for organizational development costs.
Total organizational budget: 174,813.
Preservation Trust of Vermont
Harwood Hill Barn, Bennington. 7,500
award for documentation report and stewardship.
Jamaica Town Hall, Jamaica. 7,500 award
for documentation report and stewardship.
Lamoille Grange, Morrisville. 7,500 award
for documentation report and stewardship.
Park Street School, Essex Junction. 7,500
documentation and stewardship award.
Robbins & Lawrence Armory, Windsor.
7,500 documentation and stewardship
award.
Wilder Block, Brattleboro. 7,500 award for
documentation report and stewardship.
River Arts of Morrisville, Inc.
Lamoille Grange Building, Morrisville.
76,000 historic preservation award for the
acquisition, renovation and rehabilitation
of the historic Lamoille Grange building
in downtown Morrisville for community
use for arts education, assembly, and community
meeting space. Total project cost:
501,200.
The Nature Conservancy
Windsor County Fen Watershed, Barnard.
35,000 award for acquisition of conservation
easements, associated costs and
stewardship of 30 acres to protect a state-significant
intermediate fen and its supporting
watershed. Total project cost: 91,900.
Reed Property at Old Marsh Pond, Fair
Haven. 81,100 award for acquisition and
associated costs of 14 acres of natural habitat
with rare plants, important natural communities,
rare and endangered animals. 1,000
feet of frontage on Old Marsh Pond adjacent
to WMA with public access. Total project
cost: 121,205.
Snake Mountain-Pittman Parcel, Bridport.
197,600 award for acquisition and associated
costs to conserve 152 acres of natural
habitat with rare plants and animals, significant
natural communities, dramatic
cliffs and talus system offering views of the
surrounding countryside. Public trail access.
Total project cost: 265,490
Organizational Development Grant. 25,000
grant for organizational development costs.
Total organizational budget: 2,466,000.
Town of Ferrisburgh
Ferrisburgh Grange Hall, Ferrisburgh.
60,000 additional local historic preservation
award to rebuild a municipally owned
historic Grange Hall destroyed by a fire for
use as new town offices and a community
center. Total project cost: 1,100,000.
Town of Glover
Glover Recreation Area, Glover. 25,000
local conservation award for the acquisition
of 6 acres for a town ballfield and recreation
area. Total project cost: 53,500.
Town of Jamaica
Jamaica Town Hall, Jamaica. 35,300 historic
preservation award for the rehabilitation of
the historic town hall building in the village
center to be used as community space for
meetings, performances and public and private
gatherings. Total project cost: 94,500
for Phase I.
Upper Valley Land Trust
O’Connell Farm, Corinth. 42,000 local
conservation award for acquisition of conservation
easements and stewardship of 50-
acre dairy with adjacent 126-acre easement
donation allowing for pedestrian public
access. 24,000 NRCS grant. Total project
cost: 100,000.
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Organizational Development Grant. 29,000
grant for organizational development
costs.
Green Mountain Club staff and volunteers installing a bridge for the new “Short
Trail” located at the GMC headquarters in Waterbury Center
Vermont Agency of
Agriculture, Food & Markets
Bullis/Rainville Farm Add-on, North Hero.
14,625 award for acquisition of conservation
easements on 10 acres farmland for
addition to previously conserved 334-acre
home farm. Total project cost: 14,625.