Thursday, February 14, 2013
With the Abbot Hall bell tower making local headlines, we thought we'd publish this photo we took from one of the highest points in Marblehead last year.
The awesome Abbot Hall bell tower photo attached to this post was taken last year while we were putting together this video about the Abbot Hall Crankers. The shot offers a birds-eye view of the neighborhood immediately surrounding the building and seemed appropriate considering bell tower repairs will appear on the next Town Warrant. Repairing Marblehead's trademark Abbot Hall clock tower will cost $2.1 million and it could take most of 2014 to repair the extensive damage caused by weather over the last 137 years. Click Here for our full story.
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Abbot Hall, Town of Marblehead
188 Washington St, Marblehead, MA
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Friday, November 16, 2012
The Marblehead Historical Commission recently secured $9,500 toward the restoration of Abbot Hall's well-known weather vane.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
For the thousands of local residents whose view of the Marblehead "skyline" includes the Abbot Hall bell-tower, the fact that the building is missing it's trademark weather vane has taken some getting used to. At a meeting of the Board of Selectmen Wednesday night, Chairwoman Jackie Belf-Becker read aloud a letter sent in by the town's Historical Commission announcing that they recently secured $9,500 to be used toward restoring the piece of Marbehead history. The weather vane may look small atop the building, but when it was brought down to ground level in March, Abbot Hall maintenance worker Steve Ware pointed out how it had become "a real hazard" to people walking in and out of the building. "There was a metal fitting that was holding …
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The Shattuck Fund will provide for the replacement of seven deteriorating windows.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The lower portion of the Abbot Hall bell tower will be getting some much-needed repairs, thanks to the Harold B. and Elizabeth L. Shattuck Memorial Fund. Historical Commission Chairman Chris Johnston was placed to was announce Tuesday that the Trustees of the Shattuck Memorial Fund have awarded the commission a $25,000 grant to replace deteriorated windows in the tower of Abbot Hall. The tower presently has a number of leaks and significant deterioration of the brick, mortar and woodwork, according to release. The window replacement is the initial step in further restoration of the building's trademark tower. The seven windows that will be replaced are "deteriorating and leaking," the release read. The seven windows will be replaced using …
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John Buba
1:50 pm on Thursday, February 14, 2013
Just not via an override. Call the selectmen today! 781-631-0000 Tell them fix Abbot hall without an override We already pay over 70 million dollars a year in Taxes. They can borrow 2 million easily and pay it back with the taxes we already give them. more ›