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Town of Reading <br />rl RECEIVED Meeting Minutes <br />TDWN CLERK <br />READING. MASS. <br />Board - Committee - Commission - Council: <br />Historical Commission November 10, 2015 1016 MAR -1 P It 581 <br />Date: 2015 -11 -10 Time: 7:30 PM <br />Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Town Hall Conference Room <br />Address: 16 Lowell Street <br />Purpose: Monthly Meeting <br />Attendees: Members - Present: <br />Chair: Carl Mittnight (CM) <br />Secretary: Sharlene Reynolds Santo (SRS) <br />Treasurer: Jonathan Barnes (JEB) <br />Ron Weston (RW) <br />Virginia Adams (VA) <br />Jack Williams (JW) <br />Members - Not Present: <br />Sally Hilgendorff <br />Others Present: <br />Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Sharlene Reynolds Santo <br />Topics of Discussion: <br />Page 1 1 <br />R <br />Call to <br />Order <br />at 7:35 pm. <br />Budget <br />No update. <br />Archives <br />No update. <br />258 Main St - Application is pending completion of packet <br />which is expected soon. <br />309 Haven St - Buyer Mr. Coulliard wants to demolish and <br />build a 2 family in place of this 2 family. <br />Demolition <br />188 Summer Ave - Criterion has received approval required <br />Delay <br />from the Historic District Commission and now must meet <br />again with CPDC; meeting schedule for January 25 <br />118 Lowell St - now has a demolition permit and has begun <br />preparation, but today the structure remains. <br />RHC discussed having a table at next years street fair. Table <br />Reading <br />could include a display of Sanbom maps of Reading. JW had <br />Street Faire <br />access to many of these maps; group discussed printing some <br />for faire and archives. <br />CM and VA have been working to continue organizing <br />Archives <br />collection. <br />- The towns Engineering Department has moved and <br />bequeathed a piece of a water pipe from 1892 to the archives. <br />- RPL has windows that need restoration so we are losing <br />Other <br />more of the original structure. Reconstruction of the porte <br />Topics <br />cochere has not yet begun. <br />- Johnson Woods on West St VA researched an inquiry and <br />has created a history of the area and added it to the archives. <br />Page 1 1 <br />