2006-06-12
LPAC MINUTES JULY 12, 2006
Attending were Tom Clark, Nancy Clark, Ginny Currier, Nick
Zarkades, Bruce Doig, Liz Caputo, Rich Benevento and Joan
Fairbank.
Strategizing for work after David S. Lynch Day, Sunday,
July 16:
Since 2002 the Lynch Park Advisory Committee has had a
contractual relationship with Tappe Associates, Boston, MA.
In 2003, a general master plan for improvements to the 16-
acre park and the Evans Carriage House was developed. In
2004, the David S. Lynch Trustees voted to finance a
$200,000 bond issue to replace the roof as the first phase
of projected rehabilitation; work was substantially
completed in the December of 2005. Structural and code
compliant analysis is essential to adapt the historic
structure into a year-round community cultural center with
meeting, program and function rooms.
1. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT DETAILS-Rehabilitation of the
Evans Carriage House furthers the preservation, protection
and restoration of ENHA’s resources by keeping viable a
historically significant structure whose like will never be
built again unless we go back to the horse and buggy. Many
of the tycoons from the Industrial Era actually used the
place in its hey-day while visiting Robert Dawson Evans.
President William Howard Taft gazed upon it every time he
stood on the porch of neighboring Stetson Cottage, his
summer White House in 1909-1910.
2. NEED FOR THE PROJECT-Few carriage houses survive, and
even fewer are accessible to the public, especially one as
elegantly situated as the Evans Carriage House at Lynch
Park. The massive two-story structure whose back wall is
directly on the ocean could house myriad public events
including Recreation Department programs, art shows and
business conferences while providing a strongly romantic
glimpse of Beverly’s Gold Coast past. Public meeting space
is at a premium in our community, with Beverly Public
Library bookings at full capacity a year in advance.
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