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LEOMINSTER -- An architectural close has estimated that it will amount about $1.2 actor to restore the celebrated Drake Abode to how it appeared in 1851, aback it hosted avoiding bondservant Shadrach Minkins.
Wendy Wiiks, the city's admission administrator, said the apology plan is the aboriginal footfall in applying for grants to awning the amount of bringing the city-owned home, at 21 Franklin St., already acclimated in the underground railroad, aback to its aboriginal appearance.
"We'd never be able to get any grants unless we accept a plan," Wiiks said Monday about the $60,000 appraisal and achievability abstraction commissioned in August by the burghal and paid for with a $30,000 admission from the Massachusetts Historical Commission and an according bout by the city.
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The assessment, according to the Mattapoisett architectural close Durland Van Voorhis, approved to "document the absolute altitude both structurally and architecturally, to advance short, average and abiding canning priorities with their accompanying costs and to advance a schematic architecture plan that would both bottle the Drake Abode and accomplish its history added attainable to the burghal and its visitors."
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The close had alfresco consultants audit and assay all aspects of the 1 1/2-story home, which included free its aboriginal anatomy and acrylic colors.
According to the assessment, abundant of the aboriginal Drake Abode charcoal as it was aback it was aboriginal built: "Original doors and windows are still activity and in about acceptable condition.
However, because the home was congenital 170 years ago, several dormers accept been added, as accept a brace of porches, and there is asbestos balustrade and aluminum animadversion that covers the exterior.
"Undoing these alterations and their agnate autogenous changes is the primary ambition of the project," the abstraction reads. "Once these contempo 'improvements' accept been undone, the abutting antecedence is abating the exoteric -- bringing aback the aboriginal roof line, patching the copse balustrade and trim, reglazing the windows, repainting, and installing new copse shutters.
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The activity is disconnected into three phases, the actual and medium, which will be one to three years, and continued term, which will be completed over bristles to 10 years.
"We'll alpha with the alfresco of the house," Wiiks said about the aboriginal of the three phases.
The estimated amount of acclamation the actual actualization is about $275,000 and will abolish the structure's chancy materials, such as advance acrylic and the asbestos siding, asphalt and accouterments insulation, abolition the dormers, porches and accurate stairs and walks, and accepting and abating the exterior.
The added phase, estimated to amount $285,000, will absorb the careful annihilation of portions of the home's interior, abating the autogenous to its aboriginal actualization and advance the home's heating and cooling systems, and installing new electrical account and lighting.
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The third actualization will absorb the architecture of about 1,000 aboveboard anxiety of new amplitude for bedridden accessibility and restrooms, and armpit assignment for parking, agriculture and walkways. It is estimated to amount $450,000 for actualization three.
Other fees, which accommodate added architectural and engineering costs and architecture contingencies, accompany the absolute estimated amount of the activity to $1,242,000.
Wiiks said the burghal will seek grants to awning the cost.
However, according to the study, "suitable tenants" charge be articular to awning the advancing aliment of the building.
The Drake Abode was congenital in 1848 by Frances and Jonathan Drake afterwards they confused from Boston in 1839. The brace lived in the abode for about 50 years.
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In 2012, the burghal purchased the abode with the absorbed on application it for bounded historical-related agencies, including the Leominster Historical Commission and Leominster Historical Society, and for building amplitude for educational purposes.
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