Marion Village Historic Inventory Completed

The Marion Historical Commission is pleased to announce that Phase I of the Marion Historic Survey Update has recently been completed. Work on this project included updating and expanding the Historic Inventory in much of the Marion Village area in order to make it more accessible, more easily usable and fully compliant with current state standards. Work began in the fall of 2020 and has now been completed.

            For this project, our historic preservation consultant redefined the existing survey form into separate forms for the Barden-Hiller Area, Main Street Area, South Street Area, Upper Pleasant Street Area and the Cottage and School Streets Area, making the information much more manageable to use. Her assessment also includes a recommendation that the entire area could qualify for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places is the nation’s primary tool for recognition of resources of historic and architectural significance. Listing in the National Register provides recognition but no constraints upon an individual property owner’s rights. There are no immediate plans for National Register listing, but the findings should make Marion residents increasingly aware and appreciative of the Village’s very special historic and architectural significance.

            The results will benefit individual property owners interested in the history of their homes as well as being a useful planning tool available to local boards to assure development decisions are in keeping with goals for preservation of the Town’s historic resources according to the Marion Master Plan.

            The information will soon be accessible to the public on the Marion Historical Commission’s website, as well as in hard copy in repository at the Sippican Historical Society and the Elizabeth Taber Library.

            The survey work continues with our second project: Update and Expansion of Marion’s Historic Inventory – Phase 2. Its focus is the Water Street Area, George Bonham Nye Area (Converse/Pleasant Streets) and outlying areas southward of Marion Village.

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