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. Land and Community Heritage Investment Program – page 1 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 Land and Community Heritage Investment Program – page 2 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 Land and Community Heritage Investment Program – page 4 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.