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Eligibility FormCOMMUNITY PRESERVATION ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION FORM The purpose of this form is to make sure that all project applications applying for Community Preservation Act funding are eligible for funding. Please refer to Appendix-E in the Community Preservation Plan when filling out this form. This form must be approved in order for an application to be accepted. Project Title: Shepherd Barn Structural Repairs  Project Sponsor/Organization: Historic Northampton, Inc.  Contact Name: Nancy Rexford, Acting Director  Property Owner, if applicable:  Mailing Address: 46 Bridge Street, Northampton, MA 01060  Daytime phone #: 413-584-6011 Fax #: 413-584-7956  E-mail address: nrexford@historicnorthampton.org   CPA Program Area (check those that apply): � Open Space � Historic Preservation � Community Housing � Recreation   Project Purpose (check those that apply): � Acquisition � Creation � Preservation � Support � Rehabilitation/Restoration   Project Summary: Please provide a brief description of the project. We deeply appreciate the support the CPC provided in 2014 and 2015, which focused on our three historic houses. We are continuing to work methodically through our priority list and the focus of this grant request is the Shepherd Barn. The long-neglected Shepherd Barn needs extensive structural work. We now believe that this building may date as early as 1800 (we’d like to have it tree-ring dated), and now that the tenant is out, we’d like to reopen it to the public. To make that possible, we will need to replace essentially all sills and floor joists and several posts, add footings and “critter walls,” repair the doors and damaged sheathing, remove the former tenant’s stove chimney and repair the roof, and replace the handicap-accessible bathroom and stairs (necessary because the floor has to be removed to do the structural work). Because of the extent of the structural work, it makes sense to repaint the entire barn. We would also like to add enough lighting to make this area useful as a public space, perhaps for showing summer films. We will need to put the collections now in the barn into storage during the restoration work.   Project Summary: Please provide a brief description of the project. We deeply appreciate the support the CPC provided in 2014 and 2015, which focused on our three historic houses. We are continuing to work methodically through our priority list and the focus of this grant request is the Shepherd Barn. The long-neglected Shepherd Barn needs extensive structural work. We now believe that this building may date as early as 1800 (we’d like to have it tree-ring dated), and now that the tenant is out, we’d like to reopen it to the public. To make that possible, we will need to replace essentially all sills and floor joists and several posts, add footings and “critter walls,” repair the doors and damaged sheathing, remove the former tenant’s stove chimney and repair the roof, and replace the handicap-accessible bathroom and stairs (necessary because the floor has to be removed to do the structural work). Because of the extent of the structural work, it makes sense to repaint the entire barn. We would also like to add enough lighting to make this area useful as a public space, perhaps for showing summer films. We will need to put the collections now in the barn into storage during the restoration work.   For CPC Use Eligible: _____ Not Eligible: _____ Date: __________ Reviewer: ____________________