New Hampshire’s Five Year Preservation Plan: Points of Interest and Touring Map, 2011‐2015

From executive summary: "Every five years the National Park Service asks the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources (DHR) to create a preservation plan for caring for the state’s resources and sets a number of parameters for its format. The DHR is also New Hampshire’s State Historic Preservation Office, and is able to offer a range of programs and services with funding from the National Park Service. Our web site, www.nh.gov/nhdhr, offers more information on both the state’s federal and state programs. The state’s last preservation plan, covering the years from 2006‐2010, described the remarkable progress the preservation movement had made since the 1960s and the many tools and programs created to help individuals and communities protect and preserve our built and natural heritage. It laid out goals to address threats such as sprawl, ever‐widening roads, insensitive alterations and negative attitudes. New Hampshire’s preservation community accomplished many of these goals in five short years. Among the achievements are the Project Archaeology program, the stone culvert study, Plymouth State University’s certificate program in historic preservation, professional services planning grants, the expanded use of preservation easements and increased stewardship of the state’s historic sites. Other goals remain constant: strengthening and expanding partnerships, providing a wide variety of training opportunities, and enhancing the implementation of existing tools and programs. Publishing a new preservation plan for New Hampshire offered the DHR the opportunity to work with partners across the state to reflect on past successes, assess current trends, and reaffirm our commitment to the state’s historical resources and to those who work to protect and promote them. Although many of the concerns, needs and goals voiced by organizations, agencies and hundreds of individuals were diverse, a few themes were consistent throughout New Hampshire. First were questions about the next generation of preservationists — who are they, what are they learning about New Hampshire’s past in school, and how will they care for physical resources in a digital world? Plan participants also consistently pointed to emerging conflicts between preserving older buildings and growing demands for energy efficiency, code requirements, and hazardous materials remediation, such as recently enacted new lead paint regulations. Perhaps most importantly, a third common theme was the extraordinary value residents of New Hampshire place on the state’s historical and archaeological resources and the remarkable efforts they expend to preserve, protect and promote them. In a questionnaire distributed during the summer of 2010, a final question asked what respondents would be doing over the next five years to preserve the state’s resources. Their answers are inspiring and comprehensive, and they appear in their entirety in the final pages of the appendices." Funding was provided in part by a 2011 Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the New Hampshire State Historic Preservation Office (project number NH-11-004, grant number 33-11-31936) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

New Hampshire’s Five Year Preservation Plan: Points of Interest and Touring Map, 2011‐2015

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