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Historical Commission – Oct 26, 2026

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Rose Baker Center for Aging Well, Gloucester, MA 01930
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The agenda covers historic house plaques, the Lanesville and Lane's Cove National Register district application, and the demolition delay ordinance. It also includes preservation awards, Certified Local Government status, and the Register of Historic Buildings.

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  • CPC update on 10 applicants requesting historic funding
  • Register of Historic Buildings: database and corrections
  • Rocky Neck Cultural Center historic art trail
  • Certified Local Government status
  • Funding for Lanesville/Lane's Cove National Registry district application
  • Lanes Cove plaque update
  • Calendar: November 12 Library History Exchange and 2027 meeting dates

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Clerk's posting stamp: 2026 OCT 20 AM 8:30

CITY OF GLOUCESTER

Gloucester Historical Commission

MEETING AGENDA

October 26, 2026, at 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Rose Baker Senior Center, 2nd floor conference room

6 Manuel F. Lewis Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

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ADMINISTRATION

  • Approval of September 28, 2026 Meeting Minutes
  • Tim Quinn, membership status? update GHC website

DEMOLITION DELAY ORDINANCE

  • Added to Code of Ordinances, Chapter 5, Article 6; Susan posted to GHC Google Docs
  • 9/10/26 most recent list sent to Rob Vicari
  • Tim – creating list of historical contractors, to be posted to Google Docs under Demo-delay
  • 10/7/26 Website changes posted by Ralph; Demo-delay page description and docs created by Susan

PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC BUILDING

  • 9/29/26 Susan created and sent Certificate of Historic Significance to Sailor Stan's/1 Wonson St for use with historic exclusion of FEMA flooding regs

PRESERVATION RESTRICTIONS

  • Three new in 2026,(Riggs House, Wm Haskell House, Tucker House-Hayden Cottage)
  • Susan added to our Gloucester Designations list; Ralph posted to website

HISTORIC HOUSE PLAQUES (Susan)

  • Sept-Oct NEW PLAQUES:
  • 1206 Washington St (Moses Parsons, Yeoman, 1834)
  • 5 Wiley St (East Gloucester Yacht Club, 1901-1918) approved 8/31/26
  • 34-36 Summer St (Unitarian Parsonage, 1917-1939) approved 8/31/26
  • 11 Pirates Lane (NSAA, Est. 1922) and (Wonson Wharf c1885 ) approved 8/31/26
  • Possible new applicants:
  • 150 Leonard St, Annisquam application underway, not yet finished
  • 28 Friend St (Eben Brown, Master Mariner, R1851) approved 8/31/26
  • 9 Hickory St (1866, not in MACRIS) application request 9/24

2026 MACRIS UPDATES (Julie)

  • Recent work/submissions

TERCENTENARY MARKERS (Tim)

  • QR code project, Tim to work with high school students on QR code for marker posts and affixing the signs to the posts.

2027 PRESERVATION AWARDS (Bob and Ralph)

  • Bob – list of current list of nominees
  • Ralph - book 1623 Studios for filming

CPC UPDATE (Maggie)

  • Brief update of the 10 applicants requesting historic funding

REGISTER OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS (Susan/Julie)

  • Central database for the city of all historic buildings
  • 1900 and 1920 year of build was arbitrarily assigned, these are being newly researched + corrected
  • Russell & Melissa Hobbs - 126 Lanesville houses built 1900 per city
  • Stephanie Buck - 3,230 Gloucester houses built before 1900 per city
  • Will use library software to create an Omeka database (https://omeka.org/)
  • Will be live on / be posted to library website

ROCKY NECK CULTURAL CENTER - Historic Art Trail (Susan)

https://www.rockyneckartcolony.org/historic-art-trail

  • Online self-guided walking tour of 15 historic sites; provides in-depth history and photos of each site
  • 9/8/26 RNAC volunteered to let GHC add additional historic sites to their website/tour
  • GHC will not be posting historic building documentation here, per Julie

CERTIFIED LOCAL GOVERNMENT STATUS (Susan)

  • 9/5/26 + 9/11/26 Susan emailed Michael Steinitz, State Historic Preservation Officer inquiring about our 2023, 2024, 2025 annual reports in arrears
  • 9/29 emailed Manchester and Salem, no reply, did not pursue
  • Gloucester still listed as a CLG per invite for a grant

FUNDING FOR LANESVILLE/Lane's Cove NATIONAL REGISTRY DISTRICT APPLICATION (Ralph)

  • Focus is on a smaller area of Lanesville center, which includes Lane's Cove, the Fish Shack, cemetery and a few smaller buildings surrounding that area that are publicly owned; if privately owned, Ralph will speak with directly.
  • The fish shacks, seawall, and cemetery would qualify for grants to repair them if NR was passed.
  • Ralph ltr 8/20/26 to MHC seeking approval for nomination; Ben Haley/Nat Reg Dir-MHC replied 8/24/26
  • Ralph is seeking funding based on Wendy's estimate of $7,000 for smaller-area project
  • FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: 2027 MHC Survey and Planning Grant

LANES COVE PLAQUE (Ralph)

  • Update
  • 8/31/26 Letter by Susan to Ralph stating historical significance

CALENDAR

  • November 12, 5-6:00 PM, Library History Exchange – registration required
  • 2027 GHC meeting dates, emailed to GHC members 10/15/26

Next Meeting: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2026

Rose Baker Senior Center, 2nd Floor conference room, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

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Terms used here

CPC
Community Preservation Committee, which reviews requests for Community Preservation Act money and recommends how to spend it.
MACRIS
Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, the state's inventory of historic buildings and places.

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Source

This meeting on the City of Gloucester calendar. First recorded by Gloucester Publick on .