The Marion Historical Commission is pleased to announce that Phase 3 of the Marion Historic Survey Update has recently been completed. Work on this project included updating and expanding the Historic Inventory to make it more accessible, more easily usable, and fully compliant with current state standards. The project was funded with 2021 Community Preservation funds.
Properties within several historic areas were surveyed: Old Landing Area, Old Depot Area, Burr Brothers/Old Landing Area, Rev. Oliver Cobb Area, Tremont Advent Campground Area, Marconi Power Station Area and numerous individual properties. Work began in the fall of 2021 and has now been completed. Most owners have already received copies of the inventory forms for their properties. Feedback suggests very positive interest in the newly-reported history of their homes.
The project was funded with 2021 Community Preservation funds.
For this project, our historic preservation consultant, Lynn Smiledge, reexamined the existing survey forms from 1998. Maps and Data Sheets for each Area were clarified and improved, and individual Building forms were completed for a large number of properties in and near these Areas.
The information will soon be accessible to the public on the Marion Historical Commission’s website, as well as in hard copy in repository at the Sippican Historical Society and the Elizabeth Taber Library.
It is our hope that this information will make Marion residents increasingly aware and appreciative of the town’s very special historic and architectural significance. Properties in the survey range from the late 18th c Georgian period and 19th century Cape Cod Cottages and Greek revival style homes to late 19th/early 20th century examples of the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles.
The results will benefit individual property owners interested in the history of their homes as well as being a useful planning tool available to local boards to assure development decisions are in keeping with goals for preservation of the Town’s historic resources, in accordance with the Marion Master Plan.
Our next phase of survey work will begin in July consisting of survey of properties in the vicinity of Converse Road, Moorings Road, Delano Road and Point Road. This project will be funded with 2022 Community Preservation funds, as approved at Town Meeting.