New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Investment Program Annual Report

Harriman Farm, Durham (Photo: Jerry Monkman-Ecophotography)

Fiscal Year 2018

LCHIP

December 2018

Dear Governor Sununu, Senate President Soucy, Speaker of the House Shurtleff, members of the Executive Council and State Librarian York,

We are pleased to submit this Land and Community Heritage Investment Program Annual Report, as required by RSA 227-M:5. We are proud of the success LCHIP exhibits in carrying out its legislatively mandated mission to provide matching grants that help New Hampshire communities and non-profits protect and preserve New Hampshire’s special places.

Now in its eighteenth year, LCHIP remains a highly popular and significant source of funding for conserving and protecting New Hampshire’s natural, cultural and historical resources. In FY ’18, LCHIP support was sought for forty-eight projects requesting $5.1 million. LCHIP’s comprehensive selection process led to forty-two projects being awarded grants for a total of $3.6 million. That $3.6 million in state investment will be matched by $11 million in funds from other sources.

The LCHIP Board of Directors and staff value the opportunity to learn about and help protect our state’s most important natural, cultural and historic resources and are grateful to the political leaders like yourselves whose support makes LCHIP’s work possible.

Sincerely,

Amanda Merrill Dijit Taylor Chair of Board of Directors Executive Director

Elected officials celebrate at the FY 18 LCHIP Grant Awards Announcement Photo credit: Perry Smith

LCHIP’s Achievements 2000-2018

LCHIP’s eighteen years of success can be seen in communities all around the state, from Pittsburg in the north to Nashua and other southern tier towns and from Star Island in the east to a long list of Connecticut River valley towns in the west. The program’s legislated goal is important: To conserve and preserve the state’s most important natural, cultural, and historic resources through public-private partnerships so that they can continue to contribute to the state’s economy, environment, and overall quality of life.

LCHIP’s success at achieving those goals can be measured in part by the number of grants given and projects accomplished. As of the close of FY 18, LCHIP had awarded 425 grants that have benefited 157 of the state’s 234 municipalities. More than two-hundred-eighty-three acres of good New Hampshire land have been protected forever to be used for forestry, farming, recreation, water quality, and habitat and ecosystem services. LCHIP has helped to insure a safer future for historic buildings covering a full range of New Hampshire history from the oldest building (1664 Jackson House) to one that just barely squeaks into the 50-year old definition of historic (1967 Women’s Memorial Bell Tower). The LCHIP website, www.lchip.org, provides more information about many of the LCHIP projects.

The Richard Jackson House, Portsmouth, is thought to be the oldest extant frame structure in New Hampshire. Photo credit: Bruce Blanchard, Historic New England

Chickering Farm, Westmoreland, has over a mile of frontage on the Connecticut River and grows corn, a lot of it, for its 400-cow dairy herd.

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Projects Awarded Grants in Fiscal Year 2018

Jones Hall, Marlow (Photo: Ed Thomas)

Acres Total Project Amount Municipality Project Name Year Built Protected Cost Awarded

Bartlett Bartlett Roundhouse 1887 $50,195 $25,000 Belmont Currier-Sanborn Conservation Area 77 $155,666 $57,227 Bennington Crotched Mountain West 119 $163,238 $75,000 Canaan Canaan Union Academy 1839 $28,000 $14,000 Canterbury Cart Shed Planning Study 1840 $7,860 $3,770 Concord Chamberlin House (2)* 1886 $109,981 $60,740 Concord Kimball Jenkins Carriage House 1878 $21,000 $10,500 Deerfield Marston Farm - Beye 38 $169,500 $25,000 Deerfield Marston Farm - Pendleton 128 $169,500 $25,000 Derry First Parish Church (3) 1769 $88,890 $30,000 Dover William Hale House (2) 1806 $44,000 $22,000 Dover Woodman House Planning Study 1818 $12,000 $6,000 Durham Harriman Farm 105 $717,800 $200,000 Farmington Leary Fields & Forest 63 $234,060 $100,000 Franklin Burleigh Cottage** 1799 $50,374 $10,500 Grafton Hinkson's Carding Mill 1823 $48,000 $24,000 Greenfield Meetinghouse Planning Greenfield 1795 $24,000 $12,000 Study Hancock Hancock Meetinghouse (2) 1820 $80,500 $40,000 Haverhill Rocky Hill Farm 40 $122,900 $59,000

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Acres Total Project Amount Municipality Project Name Year Built Protected Cost Awarded Haverhill Wentworth Brown House 1805 $305,675 $150,000 Jaffrey Royce - Mtn Brook Resvr 82 $315,060 $135,000 Laconia Belknap Mill (5) 1823 $477,235 $202,000 Langdon Langdon Meetinghouse (5) 1803 $31,938 $15,969 Lebanon Rogers House (2) 1911 $110,250 $50,000 Littleton Littleton Carriage House 1885 $304,500 $10,000 Lyndeborough Proctor Preserve - Scataquog Brook 41 $77,000 $38,000 Lyndeborough Proctor Preserve - Cold Brook 71 $245,598 $109,950 Marlow Jones Hall (2) 1801 $184,506 $102,253 Nashua St. Mary & Archangel Michael Church 1896 $3,953,158 $390,000 Ossipee C.N. Munroe Preserve 177 $256,331 $110,000 Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Peterborough 1825 $21,500 $10,000 Church (2) Peterborough Peterborough Town House (2) 1918 $806,957 $200,000 Portsmouth Rundlet-May House 1807 $141,076 $70,000 Rindge Women's Memorial Bell Tower 1967 $45,000 $4,000 Rye Star Island, Oceanic Hotel (4) 1875 $298,750 $125,000 Rye Rye Town Hall Planning Study 1839 $120,000 $12,000 Rye St. Andrew's-by-the-Sea 1876 $110,000 $50,000 Salisbury Childs CE - Little Mountain Forest 574 $373,706 $180,000 Statewide NHPA Block Grant varies $110,000 $50,000 Stratham Barkers Farm East 50 $884,900 $100,000 Stratham Barkers Farm West 34 $884,900 $100,000 Warner Brown Conservation Easement 150 $364,900 $180,000 Washington Meetinghouse/Town Hall (3) 1787 $151,964 $75,982 Westmoreland Chickering Farm 353 $1,410,870 $350,000 Wolfeboro RR Freight Shed Planning Wolfeboro 1872 $20,000 $10,000 Study Total 2,101 $14,303,238 $3,629,891 *Number after project name indicates that project has received more than one LCHIP grant. **Grant awarded but not accepted.

Canterbury Shaker Village Cart Shed Union Academy, Canaan Royce Conservation Easement, Jaffrey (Photo: Stephen Gehlbach) Land and Community Heritage Investment Program – page 3

Projects Completed in Fiscal Year 2018

Northumberland, Cape Horn Connectivity (Photo: Jan McClure, TNC)

LCHIP grant money is not distributed at the time the project is selected for the award. Rather, grant recipients are allowed up to twenty-four months from the date of the grant award to finish raising the matching money and complete the projects to LCHIP’s high standards. Occasionally, extensions may be granted if warranted by project conditions. Thus, it is typical for projects from several different previous years to close in any year.

Total Year Year Acres Amount Municipality Project Name Project Awarded Built Protected Awarded Cost Acworth Acworth Horse Sheds 2015 1820 $80,267 $34,000 Kennett Community Forest - Bald Albany 2016 91 $355,900 $64,500 Hill Barrington Stonehouse Forest 2015 1,526 $4,271,550 $420,000 Bennington Crotched Mountain West 2017 119 $163,238 $75,000 Berlin Brown Company House 2014 1853 $38,885 $19,443 Center Harbor Center Harbor Town House 2016 1844 $62,416 $21,280 Concord Chamberlin House 2014 1886 $112,140 $55,000 Concord Kimball Jenkins Carriage House 2017 1878 $21,000 $10,500 Pine Hill Community Forest - Pine Conway 2016 460 $558,238 $85,500 Hill Tract Durham Emery Farm AKA Hills CE 2014 36 $1,611,038 $300,000 Francestown Town Hall/Academy Francestown 2014 1847 $896,000 $200,000 (2) Gilford Rowe House 2014 1835 $52,398 $26,199

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Year Year Acres Total Project Amount Municipality Project Name Awarded Built Protected Cost Awarded Grafton East Grafton Union Church 2013 1785 $89,688 $42,000 Hancock Hancock Meetinghouse 2014 1820 $138,535 $69,267 Haverhill Pearson Hall (3) 2014 1816 $24,440 $8,700 Haverhill Blackmount Farm 2016 176 $350,381 $125,000 Hooksett Clay Pond (3) 2015 74 $110,900 $10,000 Jaffrey Jaffrey Meetinghouse 2016 1775 $82,504 $54,600 Kensington Bodwell Farm North 2016 201 $1,011,982 $175,000 Kingston Kingston Historic Bandstand 2013 1875 $35,875 $15,000 Laconia Belknap Mill Planning Study 2016 1823 $46,434 $23,217 Lempster Miner Memorial Library 2015 1845 $59,890 $29,945 Londonderry Doyle CE - Musquash 2016 26 $668,439 $178,000 Proctor Preserve - Scataquog Lyndeborough 2017 41 $77,000 $38,000 Brook Page Pond Community Forest Meredith 2016 198 $1,155,325 $250,000 (2) Milton Milton Free Public Library (2) 2014 1875 $32,865 $14,789 Milton NH Farm Museum (3) 2013 1856 $100,000 $50,000

Moultonborough Castle in the Clouds (4) 2015 1914 $233,000 $80,000

Northumberland Cape Horn Connectivity 2016 288 $238,778 $75,000 Orford Mason Pond 2015 146 $344,259 $92,500 Portsmouth Warner House Preservation 2013 1716 $94,000 $47,000 Portsmouth Richard Jackson House 2015 1664 $248,366 $90,000 Portsmouth South Church Planning Study 2016 1826 $16,000 $8,000 Rochester Rochester City Hall Annex 2016 1904 $2,870,900 $18,702 Sanbornton Congregational Sanbornton 2014 1834 $26,495 $13,233 Church Warner Pillsbury Library 2014 1891 $132,090 $50,000 Railroad Freight Shed Planning Wolfeboro 2017 1872 $20,000 $10,000 Study Total 3,381 $16,431,216 $2,879,375

Emery Farm, Durham Jaffrey Meetinghouse East Grafton Church (Grafton Historical Society) Land and Community Heritage Investment Program – page 5

The LCHIP Trust Fund

The money for LCHIP matching grants comes from a $25 surcharge assessed on the recording of four types of documents (deeds, mortgages, mortgage discharges and plans) at the Registry of Deeds in each of the state’s ten counties. The surcharge was established under RSA 478:17-g in 2008. FY 18 is the fifth year during which the entire income from this source has been allocated to LCHIP. The recording fees generated a bit over $3.9 million in FY 18, as shown on the table below. This exceeded the budgeted amount of $3.5 million by $462,020. LCHIP was authorized through the fiscal process to accept and expend the additional funds.

LCHIP’s enabling legislation, RSA 227-M, requires that funds be set aside to ensure that properties protected with assistance from LCHIP are managed according to the legal agreements with LCHIP. Recipients are obligated to demonstrate that the property meets the LCHIP requirements for a term of years ranging from five, for small historic resource preservation grants, to in perpetuity for every natural resource conservation project. The money set aside for this stewardship is held in the “Community Conservation Endowment” (CCE) established under RSA 227-M: 12. Each year, a portion of the income from the CCE is used to provide annual incentive payments to grant recipients who have submitted reports documenting that the resource is in appropriate condition. The Stewardship section of this report provides more information about these payments.

LCHIP Trust Fund – FY 2018

Project Mandated Recording Other Grant & Interest Transfers to FY 18 Fee Balance income Stewardship Transferred Endowment Income Dispersal Trust Fund

Starting Balance $6,810,673.73 FY 18 Changes $3,962,020 $71,000 ($3,297,484) ($34,608) ($190,387) $510,540.33

Calculated balance $7,321,214.06

Grant and CCE Funds Encumbered for Committed Projects $6,656,015.00

Total Unencumbered in Trust Fund at Close of Fiscal Year $665,199.06

Greenfield Meetinghouse (Photo: Kenneth Paulson) Barker’s Farm, Stratham (Photo: Jeremy Lougee)

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LCHIP Administrative Costs – Fiscal Year 2018

The Conservation and Heritage License Plate Program (Moose Plates) provides up to $200,000 to LCHIP each year for administrative expenses, per RSA 261:97-b. The remainder of the administrative expenses is drawn from interest on LCHIP’s bank accounts and an administrative reserve fund. The administrative expenses shown below are based on the independent audit required under RSA 227-M: 5. The audit is in process and is scheduled to be reviewed by the LCHIP Board of Directors at their January 2019 meeting. When completed and approved by the Board, the audit will be posted at www.lchip.org.

Salaries and Benefits $ 258,318 Payroll Taxes $ 15,584 Rent/Utilities $ 17,145 Audit Fees $ 7,360 Bookkeeping Fees $ 7,800 Consultant Fees $ 2,577 Telephone/Internet $ 3,277 IT Support $ 6,354 Web Site Hosting $ 139 Insurance $ 3,992 Travel/Mileage $ 5,998 Office Equipment/Maintenance $ 2,330 Office Supplies $ 1,641 Meeting Expense $ 1,029 Postage $ 914 Printing & Copying $ 687 Dues and Subscriptions $ 550 Professional Development $ 140 Project Signage $ 3,219 Communications and Outreach $ 5,985 Other Expenses $ 250 Payroll Service Charges $ 1,998 Depreciation $ 3,660 TOTAL EXPENSES $ 350,947

Bodwell Field & Forest Littleton Carriage House (Photo: Sandra Chaisson) Land and Community Heritage Investment Program – page 7

Stewardship of LCHIP-Assisted Properties Fiscal Year 2018

As explained in the Trust Fund section of this report, LCHIP is obligated to set aside funds to support long term monitoring of projects that received assistance from LCHIP. The Community Conservation Endowment (CCE) holds money set aside to ensure that the properties are maintained in the condition and for the amount of time required by their legal agreements with the state through LCHIP. The endowment fund is managed by the Treasury Department under RDAs 227-M:12 and 162-C:8 following an investment strategy agreed upon by LCHIP. LCHIP’s CCE is managed in close conjunction with a similar endowment fund dedicated to the monitoring of other state held property interest through the Conservation Land Stewardship Program at the Office of Strategic Initiatives.

Each LCHIP matching grant requires the recipient organization to enter into a binding legal agreement with LCHIP to ensure that the property will be maintained according to the terms of the agreement – in good condition and for a specified length of time. Agreements range in length from five years to forever, depending on the size of the grant award and the nature of the project. All natural resource agreements are forever, while historic resource project agreements may be five, ten, fifteen or twenty years, or forever.

Grant recipients demonstrate that they are fulfilling their obligations by submitting an annual monitoring report, documenting the condition of the property in that year.

Since 2009, LCHIP has followed the guidance of RSA 227-M:12 II and provided an annual incentive payment to grant recipients who have submitted acceptable annual monitoring reports. The funds to make these payments are drawn from a portion of the income to the CCE, subject to approval from both the LCHIP Board of Directors and the Council on Resources and Development.

The amount of the incentive payments is based on the complexity of monitoring the resource, the year’s income from the endowment and the number of projects eligible for payments. In 2018, as in the previous six years, the base payment for an easy-to-monitor property was $200, with the maximum payment for a more difficult-to-monitor property being $800. A total of $71,000 was distributed in incentive payments to 102 organizations who were responsible for 243 LCHIP-assisted properties. Two hundred thirty acceptable monitoring reports were received. LCHIP’s 2018 summer Interns monitored the properties that were not reported correctly and offered training in how to complete an annual monitoring report.

Wolfeboro Freight Shed

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LCHIP Board – Fiscal Year 2018

Public Members

Appointed by Governor and Executive Council

Colin Cabot, Cultural/Historic Doug Cole, Business John “Chick” Colony, Municipal Cynthia Copeland, Regional Planning Commissions (July 2017 - March 2018) Harold Janeway, Natural Resources Richard Lewis, Local Planning Julia Steed Mawson, Recreation (July - September 2017) Amanda Merrill, Cultural/Historic Benjamin Wilcox (October 2017 - June 2018)

Legislative Members

Appointed by Senate President & Speaker of the House

Senator Martha Fuller Clark Senator Robert Giuda Representative Neal Kurk (April 2018 - June 2018) Representative Robert Rimol (July 2017 - October 2017) Representative Judith Spang

State Agency Members

Ex Officio

Lorraine Merrill, Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, Markets, and Food (July - December 2017) Shawn Jasper, Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, Markets, and Food (Dec. 2017 - June 2018) Elizabeth Muzzey, Director, Division of Historical Resources Robert Scott, Commissioner, Department of Environmental Services (Designee: Pierce Rigrod) Glenn Normandeau, Executive Director, Department of Fish & Game (Designee: John Kanter - July - August 2017) (Designee: Richard Cook - September 2017 - June 2018) Brad Simpkins, Division of Forests and Lands (Designee: Susan Francher) Jarod Chicoine, Director, Office of Energy and Planning (Designee: Stephen Walker)

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LCHIP Staff – Fiscal Year 2018

Dijit Taylor, Executive Director Paula Bellemore, Natural Resource Specialist George Born, Historic Resource Specialist Jenna Lapachinski, Historic Resource Specialist (July 2017) Barbara Beers, Office Manager Benjamin Cantor-Stone, Historic Resource Intern (June 2018) Andrew Healey, Natural Resource Intern (July - August 2017, March - June 2018) E. Paige Kamal, Historic Resource Intern (July - August 2017) Zachary Pearo, Natural Resource Intern (May - June 2018)

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New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Investment Program Annual Report Fiscal Year 2018