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PHOTO: The Farmington Historical Society’s Octagon House, aka the Hiram Ramsdell House, was built in 1858 by mason Cyrus Ramsdell. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. (Submitted photo)
ELLSWORTH – Grants totaling $345,370 have been awarded through the Belvedere Historic Preservation and Energy Efficiency Fund of the Maine Community Foundation to 35 grantees, including several in the Turner Publishing circulation area.
Central and western Maine grantees include:
* Farmington Historical Society Inc., to improve the energy efficiency of the Octagon House so its local and architectural history will be preserved and on view throughout the year;
* Centre Street Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, in Bath, to restore and protect stained glass window 14 (the Getchell Window) in the southeast corner of the church (installed in 1899): $20,000;
* Friends of L.C.Bates Museum, in Fairfield, to begin the first-floor window restoration project by restoring the three most deteriorated windows and using the project as a model for continued window restoration: $10,000;
* Kezar Falls Circulating Library, in Kezar Falls, to restore the 11 windows of the 95-year-old Kezar Falls Library: $7,300;
* Porter Memorial Library Association, to pay for architectural drawings for an addition that will create library accessibility via an elevator, and to conduct an energy audit: $6,500;
* St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, in Windham, to replace fuel tanks and restore the wood and batten sidings of the church, stained glass windows, and the bell strike mechanism: $16,922;
* Town of Fryeburg, to update and create a new library extension that will serve the community as an outdoor recreation library and meeting space: $10,000.
A full list of grant recipients is available below and at www.mainecf.org.
The Belvedere Historic Preservation and Energy Efficiency Fund supports the preservation, restoration, and retrofitting of historic buildings in Maine. An anonymous donor established the fund in 2007.
The next grant application deadline is June 1. The online application and guidelines are available at www.mainecf.org. For more information, contact Senior Program Officer Maggie Drummond-Bahl at 207-761-2440 or mbahl@mainecf.org.
