Massachusetts Cultural District Initiative Site Visit – 12/12/12

Massachusetts Cultural District Initiative Site Visit  

TOWN OF Medfield

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

9:30 am to 12:30 pm

Massachusetts Cultural Council Attendees:

Anita Walker, Executive Director

Meri Jenkins, Program Manager, MA Cultural District Initiative

Kylie Sullivan, Program Coordinator, MA Cultural District Initiative

Maren Brown, Site Advisor, MA Cultural District Initiative

9:30 – 10:30 am           Round table with municipal officials

Chenery Room, 2^nd Floor, Town House, 459 Main Street, Medfield

Participants:

• Mike Sullivan, Town Manager
• Ann Thompson, Chair, Board of Selectmen
• Osler Peterson, Selectman
• Brandie Morris, Downtown Study Committee

10:30am – 11:30pm     Tour of District

Participants: Deborah Kelsey, Library Director and Richard De Sorgher, Town Historian will join MCC for part of the tour.

Tour route:

1. Medfield Town House/Town Hall/Chenery Hall
2. James Ord Block
3. David Fairbanks House
4. Joshua Fisher House
5. Cheney-Curtis House
6. Clark Tavern
7. Peak House
8. Daniel Sanders House
9. George Inness Studio
10. First Baptist Church
11. DeVasto/GAR Hall
12. Zullo Gallery Center for the Arts
13. Medfield Town Common and Gazebo
14. Medfield Historical Society/Memorial Public Library Annex
15. Memorial Public Library
16. Baxter Park
17. Plimpton-Hamant-Bartlett House
18. Vine Like Cemetery
19. Metcalf Homestead
20. Plimpton-Woodard House
21. Monks Block/Elijah Thayer Block
22. Frost Block
23. First Parish Parsonage
24. First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church
25. Meeting House Pond/Baker’s Pond
26. Dwight-Derby House
27. Montrose School
28. Site of the first school
29. Unnamed park
30. Memorial Public Library

11:30 – 12:30 pm         Round table with partners, participants, stakeholders

Dailey Room, Memorial Public Library:

1. Deborah Kelsey, Memorial Public Library
2. Bill Pope, Zullo Gallery Center for the Arts
3. Brandie Morris, Medfield Employers and Merchants Organization
4. David Temple, Medfield Historical Society
5. Richard De Sorgher, Town Historian, Downtown Study Committee
6. Cheryl O’Malley, Dwight-Derby House
7. Bob Luttman, First Parish Church, Medfield Cable
8. Rob Gregg, Vine Like Preservation Trust
9. John Guthrie, Lowell Mason Foundation
10. Patricia Weller, Woodland Theatre Company