Mendon Historical District Study Committee

Mendon Historical District Study Committee The purpose of this committee is to explore the possibility of creating an official historic district within the town of Mendon.

At their meeting on October 5th, 2015 the Board of Selectmen voted to establish a Local Historic District Study Committee under MGL Ch 40C consisting of three to seven members. The committee shall make an investigation and report on the historic significance of the buildings, structures, features, sites or surroundings included in such proposed local historic district or districts as the committee

may recommend, and shall submit a final report with its recommendations after a public hearing, together with a map of the proposed district or districts and a draft of the proposed bylaw, to the Board of Selectmen. The purpose of a local historic district is to aid property owners and the Town of Mendon in the preservation and protection of the distinctive characteristics and architecture of buildings and places significant in the history of the Town of Mendon. This includes the maintenance and improvement of their settings and the encouragement and support of new and innovative building designs and techniques compatible with the existing architecture. We are seeking community input, and hope to keep the public updated on our progress through this page.

Please come tonight and vote yes! Preserve our history for our future!
05/05/2017

Please come tonight and vote yes! Preserve our history for our future!

Mendon's Annual Town Meeting is Friday May 5th at 7pm at Miscoe. Please consider attending and participating. For those not familiar with town meetings the open town meeting form of government is one of the unique features of New England Towns in which all registered voters have the ability to voice their opinions and make decisions on the budget and other important topics.

You can view the warrant here:http://www.mendonma.gov/sites/mendonma/files/agenda/agenda-file/atm_may_5_2017_final.pdf

You can also view the proposed FY18 budget here:http://www.mendonma.gov/sites/mendonma/files/report_of_the_finance_committee_2018_small.pdf

"I am more and more convinced that, with reference to any public question, it is more important to know what the country thinks of it than what the city thinks. The city does not think much. On any moral question, I would rather have the opinion of Boxboro than of Boston and New York put together. When the former speaks, I feel as if somebody had spoken, as if humanity was yet, and a reasonable being had asserted its rights — as if some unprejudiced men among the country's hills had at length turned their attention to the subject, and by a few sensible words redeemed the reputation of the race. When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town-meeting, to express their opinion on some subject which is vexing the land, that, I think, is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States."
— Henry David Thoreau,

04/27/2017

The public hearing for the district will be tonight at 7 PM in the town hall

04/22/2017

Check out the official proposal for the district on the official town of Mendon website

The Edward L. Smith House (Across from town hall) in 1897 and today
04/22/2017

The Edward L. Smith House (Across from town hall) in 1897 and today

04/20/2017
Check out these maps of the proposed districts
04/20/2017

Check out these maps of the proposed districts

04/12/2017
04/09/2017

On April 12, at 6:30 PM, we will be having a meeting at town hall with residents of the proposed district. All residents of Mendon are invited.

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20 Main Street
Mendon, MA
01756

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+15084732312

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