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In the interim, the college agreed to work with the commission to document the histories of Chandler House and Hardy House and to advertise their availability to anyone who wants to preserve the structures in whole or in part. College officials who appeared before the panel at its virtual meeting said the school was prepared to wait out the maximum 12-month delay allowed under the town s bylaw without an impact on the building project s timeline. After Community Development Director Andrew Groff advised the commission that, in recent years, the body had ordered shorter delays, Nate Budington suggested a six-month delay each of the structures, which the panel found to be preferably preserved.
The museum is seeking town funds to pay about 17 percent of the $301,600 cost of dismantling, preserving and reassembling an historic Williamstown barn on the institution s grounds. We re hopeful we ll get at least a portion of the funding for this project, said Sarah Currie, a member of the commission who also serves as executive director for the museum. It s important, we think to save this barn because this is one of an ever dwindling collection of barns like this. They often fall into disrepair and are demolished, and their stories can t be told. It s significant to the town because agriculture was so significant to the town.