Historic Resources Annual Monitoring
Report
Organization:
Historic Resource Name:
Individual Submitting Report:
Phone:
Email:
Date Completed:______________________
This report must be submitted to LCHIP along with all required photographs by December 31.
Mail to: LCHIP, 13 West Street, Suite 3, Concord NH 03301 or Email to: adixon@lchip.org
Please feel free to use additional pages if there is not sufficient space on this form.
The checklist below is to remind and encourage you to look at your historic resource as a whole on an
annual basis and to note the condition of the following elements (if applicable). This is not a
comprehensive list and building elements specific to your resource should be addressed as applicable:
Foundation –
Look for moisture penetration, cracks, spalling
Windows and Doors – Check for water
seepage, cracked panes, rotted sash, etc.
Masonry (Including walls, chimneys, etc.) –
Check for cracks, missing mortar, damaged brick
or stones, etc.
Paint – Check for flaking, blistering,
weathering
Wood (Including siding, trim, eaves, cornice, etc.)
– Look for rot, flaking paint, deterioration
Interior Walls and Ceilings – Visually inspect
for cracks, chips, stains and loose
paint/wallpaper
Roof (Including flashing, gutters and downspouts)
-- Check for missing, cracked, broken or loose
materials
Interior Floors – Inspect for warping, excessive
wear, damage
Please use the space provided below to make note of your observations of the above items with a brief
description of the condition and its location (i.e., peeling paint on north elevation below roofline). In
areas where problems are observed, are there plans to remedy the problems?
Please complete and return to LCHIP, 13 West Street, Suite 3, Concord, NH 03301
Town of Allenstown, New Hampshire
Old Allenstown Meeting House
The Old Allenstown Meeting House remains in excellent condition. The final major component of its interior
rehabilitation--the replacement of a ceiling that had been destroyed by fire in 1985--was completed in June
2013. The final major component of its exterior rehabilitation--the reproduction of a split rail fence duplicating
one that had been built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1937--was completed in November 2013.
A new roof was applied to the structure in 2006; the clapboards were replaced under consultation with the New
Hampshire Division of Historical Resources in 2010, and painted; and in 2011, to alleviate dampness under the
building, a drainage trench was excavated from the northwest corner of the crawl space under the building to a
dry well, with monitoring and archaeological testing provided by the New Hampshire Division of Historical
Resources. Box pews in the northwest corner of the meeting room, destroyed by fire in 1985, were reproduced
under funding from LCHIP in 2011. Interpretive labels now identify original pew owners. The final component of
the restoration of the interior, the replacement of the lost ceiling, was completed with funding provided by the
New Hampshire Conservation License Plate Program and by the Allenstown Historical Society. The building is
now rehabilitated, protected by a security system, and increasingly used for public programming. The single
structural issue to be corrected is the tightening of the fieldstone underpinning under the north wall (see p. 2).
