BMH doesn't get the LCHIP grant they applied for.

Middleton, Barrington and Milton projects get LCHIP grant awards
By John Nolan
jnolan@fosters.com

Monday, January 13, 2014

CONCORD — The Board of Directors of the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program, on Jan. 6 announced the recipients of the latest LCHIP grant awards.
Among the 39 projects around the state, receiving, between them, over $3.5 million, were two in Milton, one in Barrington and one in Middleton, as well as several in Portsmouth.
The Bear-Paw Regional Greenways has received $200,000 towards a $1.1 million target to purchase a conservation easement that includes over a mile of frontage on the Isinglass River.
Middleton has been granted $175,000 towards the cost of renovating the historic town hall and preserving 19th century murals. The total cost of the project has been put at $350,000, of which a conservation group in the town will have to raise half.
Milton Town House Restoration Committee has been granted $8,552, which is half the estimated cost of its latest round of restoration of the 1803 town house — in this case, the flooring.
Also in Milton, the NH Farm Museum has been allocated $50,000 for its continuing restoration project at the Jones farm.
In Portsmouth, five projects will receive funds in the round of LCHIP grants: the Lowd House in Strawbery Banke will get $25,882, The John Paul Jones House in the Historic District will get $40,000, the Wentworth-Gardner House with receive $45,167, and the Warner House will get $47,000. All these are approximately 50 percent matches of the estimated project costs. The City of Portsmouth will also get $50,000 towards the estimated $1.2 million for preserving the African Burying Ground.
The Society for the Protection of NH Forests, seeking to preserve land around the popular Mount Major, which straddles the communities of Alton and Gilford, sought and received $340,000. The estimated total cost of this land preservation project is $1.6 million.
Not all applicants were successful in this round of grants, and least some of the 36 projects that applied but did not receive funding have already expressed an interest in applying for funding in a future grant round. The next grant round is expected to open in June of 2014.

Among the unsuccessful applicants this time around were Milton Free Public Library, the New Durham Meetinghouse, Newington’s Langdon Library, the Players Ring in Portsmouth, the Hope Farm in Rochester, the Wakefield Opera House andBrewster Memorial Hall in Wolfeboro.
“The Board of Directors greatly appreciates the Legislature’s decision to provide full funding for LCHIP’s important grants,” says LCHIP Board Chair Doug Cole. “The projects awarded grants represent an array of New Hampshire’s best natural, cultural and historic resources. Since my business depends on growing plants, I am particularly pleased that five projects to protect working farm land are among those selected to receive funding.”
Funding for the LCHIP grants comes from fees on four types of documents recorded at Registries of Deeds all around the state and is expected to be $4.1 million for FY ’14 (July 2013 – June 2014). Grant recipients receive money after the money has come in from the registry fees. Applicants are allowed up to 24 months to complete their other fund raising and the project implementation.
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