CPA Projects Database

The project is the creation of parking areas off of the Bates Lane and possible Hollycrest Road to provide parking for the public while accessing the Bates Lane Conservation Area walking trails. The project meets the requirements for recreational land by creating for active or passive recreational use

Funding in the amount of $139,000 has been granted for the renovation and repair of the Central Park softball fields and installation of a support facility. The Central Park softball filed s are used by numerous groups including youth recreation teams, High School varsity and junior varsity teams, travel softball league and several adult leagues. Renovation these fields to proper standards, with solid infield playing surface, drainage, and irrigation will make the fields safer, more enjoyable to play on and less expensive to maintain. This project also includes the installation of a support structure that will provide restroom facilities, storage, and safe protection from the elements. This project qualifies for CPA funding as a recreational project

This project funds $4,100 for the restoration of the Bates Family gravesites at Union Cemetery. This restoration coincides with the two hundredth anniversary of Rebecca & Abigail Bates service to the town and country during the War of 1812. The family gravestones are in disrepair and this project seeks to remedy that condition. The Scituate Historical Commission warrants these gravesites to be of historical significance. The project qualifies for CPA funding as it is associated with people significant in the history of Scituate.

This project funds $2,700 for the restoration of two Light keeper journals recently donated to the Scituate Historical Society. The Scituate Historical Society will contribute $300 toward the total cost of $3,000. These journals were kept by the Light keeper John Francis Cushman. They are in fragile condition and will offer a great deal of history from the years 1905 to 1924. The Scituate Historical Commission has deemed the journals to be historically significant. The project qualifies for CPA funding by providing for the preservation of a historically significant artifact.

This project is providing additional funding in the amount of $200,000 for the Lighthouse Foreshore Protection Project. The project protects Scituate Lighthouse and the real property where it resides. A stone revetment will be done using heavy stone. The present retaining wall will be removed. The new revetment will be in the same footprint as the existing wall and will be two feet higher. The stone from the existing wall will be used as filler. There is very little protecting the historical town lighthouse. This project qualifies for CPA funding as it protects a historic resource from harm and destruction

The Union Mission Chapel was built in 1885 by the people living in the Sherman’s Corner section of Scituate. The dedication service was held on October 22, 1885 with about 175 people attending. From the beginning, Union Mission Chapel is ecumenical. The chapel, with its original benches and oil lamps, retains the intimate atmosphere and sense of history in early Scituate. Currently, the building holds non-sectarian services for the people from Scituate, Marshfield, and Norwell. $4000 is requested for the purchase and installation of 6 large and 4 smaller storm windows to protect and preserve the antique glass and windows. This project qualifies for CPA funding by providing protection and preservation of a historic building.

Funding for items requested by the Scituate Town Archivist: 1) Funding for a limited printing of a book, Scituate and the Civil War for educational purposes. In addition to use at schools and the library, the book would be used within the Archives as a more research complete and convenient research tool. $850 2) Continuation of archival shelving, shipping and installation. This completes the final phase of the organizing and establishing a database for all municipal records stored at Town Hall. These units are portable in the event of a move. $14,720 3) Microfilming “Real Estate Commitment Books” $35,000 4) Refurbished Microfilm Reader $4,430 Massachusetts General Law requires that all towns maintain an archive and must contribute some level of maintenance preservation funding. The project qualifies for CPA funding as it rehabilitates and preserves Town Archives.

Scituate Skate Park Renovation is for the construction and installation of a new skate park at current location. The plan is to demolish and rebuild the current skate park using modern design and construction.

This project will transfer the Irish Mossing Shed from its current location at the Scituate Marine Park to a location adjacent to the Mossing Museum. This will expand the museums mossing exhibit.

Bailey-Ellis House Roof and Site Preservation Project will contribute to the preserving of a piece of Scituate’s historic heritage. The project is intended to preserve the integrity of the building envelope by rehabilitating site drainage, roof drainage, and runoff issues inherent in the original 19th century structure.

Town Archives project for the completion of a Civil War book that highlights Scituate’s involvement in the War of Rebellion and the restoration of the five remaining binders of Selectmen’s Minutes.

Scituate Town Library will create a microfiche record of selected years of the Scituate Mariner and purchase duplicate rolls of some years to provide complete access of the Mariner through microfiche to library patrons and town residents, and researchers. The years to be microfiched are: 1979-89, 1993-95, June 2003-December 2013, and duplicate rolls (originally created by the publisher) of the periods of January 1990 – December 1992 and January 1996-June 2003. These issues will be added to the already robust collection of microfiched local newspapers dating back to the 1920’s.

Scituate Arts Association requested 50% of the funding needed for the Bailey-Ellis House Dining Room Beam Preservation project. These funds are requested due to the emergency nature of the failure of a structural support beam and plaster damage in the dining room, as a result of water infiltration from the compromised building envelope. Roof and site drainage improvements are in the process of being addressed. The other 50% of the project will be paid for by the Scituate Arts Association operating budget.

To complete a fencing project, to clear shrubs and tree branches, and for materials that will help keep the garden sustainable.

NOTE: CPC FUNDED THE ENGINEERING PHASE BUT DID NOT APPROVE FUNDING BEYOND THAT PHASE - This is the seed money that the DPW needs to begin the permitting process for the possible restoration of 2,800 feet of public beach along Glades and Surfside Roads in North Scituate. If completed, the project would improve accessibility, restore 50 foot wide upland beach for recreation at high tide, and make existing seawalls, stairs and ramps more resilient to anticipated rise in sea level and increased storm surges. The project would build up the beach by adding sand. The Scituate Department of Public Works has retained the services of Applied Coastal Research and Engineering for the preparation of a design under a grant from the Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management agency. Various permits from state and federal regulators need to be secured before the project proceeds and DPW will actively seek grants from state and federal agencies to offset the cost of the project, which will cost an estimated $6,100,000 and take four years to complete.

Acquire real property consisting of approximately .92 acres of undeveloped open space in the West End of Scituate. This parcel abuts conservation land under the care and custody of the Scituate Conservation Commission. This purchase is consistent with both the Scituate Master Plan and the open space provisions of the CPA.

Scituate Light is the most important historic site in Scituate listed on the National Register of Historic places since 1987. The structural integrity of the tower dome is in jeopardy by the deterioration of the copper cover. This project will address this issue with new sheath copper, along with needed carpentry and metal work repairs. The project will repair the lighthouse tower dome, components of the lighthouse lantern room, the lantern room galley and the catwalk.

Preserve the 19th century records by de-acidifying them. These are tax and “pauper” records. Secondly this will go towards binding minutes from town meetings which the secretary of state requires.

The Central Park cupola, which provides a system of ventilation for the building, needs to be restored to prevent further damage. Central Park has 51 affordable rental units for seniors and disabled residents and is owned by the Scituate Housing Authority. The SHA is eligible for annual capital improvement grants for roughly $50,000 putting many of the larger scope capital improvement projects beyond the budget limitations.

The Svensen Hockey Field located at Scituate High School was eliminated due to construction of a new Middle School. This project is for the relocation of this field to an existing, under-utilized, and poorly maintained field located at Cushing School. This project requires the removal of some trees, installation of an irrigation system, planting of sod, and fencing.

The Historical Society will build appropriate climate controlled storage on the first floor of the building. Current collections are being stored below grade in the basement in which humidity, floor moisture from flooding and ranges of temperatures are impossible to manage- paintings, maps, photographs and other collections are at extreme risk in the current space.

This proposal is to ascertain the potential athletic field uses of the approximately 27 acres of land off Clapp Road acquired in Article 15 of the April 2015 Annual Town Meeting upon completion of the wetlands delineation. The Town has athletic fields in various conditions and development of this property would allow the Town to move forward with best practices relevant to field maintenance.

This project is for the professional conservation and digital preservation of significant historic paper-based artifacts and reference materials. The artifacts are one-of-a-kind items representing different aspects of Scituate history and include: the original signatures of sisters Abigail and Rebecca Bates, the "Army of Two" who frightened the British from entering Scituate harbor in the War of 1812; photographs of Thomas W. Lawson and Dreamwold c1902-3 by renowned photographer T.E. Marr; and the 1916 guestbook from the tea house located in the wreck of the Pilot Boat Columbia which was driven ashore in the 1898 Portland Gale. Historic and widely-used reference materials include records of early New Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Civil War volunteers, and Scituate family genealogies.

Roach Field is a town-owned baseball field. This project will refurbish an existing parking area to accommodate 19 spaces with two handicapped spots and create a new parking lot with approximately 20 spaces near right field.