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HISTORIC RESTORATION
Saving a State Treasure
Teamwork restores Portsmouth's Gilded-Age Carey Cottage at Creek Farm
and gives it new purpose.
IN JUNE 2019, Carey Cottage at Creek
Farm, a historic property sitting on 35
acres along Sagamore Creek in Portsmouth,
was slated to be torn down.
The rambling structure, one of the
few Gilded Age, shingle-style summer
homes remaining on the New Hampshire
Seacoast, stood unused and had fallen
into disrepair. Its owner, the Society
for the Protection of New Hampshire
Forests (SPNHF), had unsuccessfully
sought a long-term tenant that could
help preserve the property for conservation
and public use; they had run out of
options to keep Carey Cottage intact. The
former owners of Creek Farm, Chet and
Billie Noel, bequeathed their property
to SPNHF and stipulated that it be used
by nonprofit entities. The Portsmouth Advocates,
a local preservation group led by
Dr. Richard Candee that was affiliated with
the Portsmouth Historical Society, and
members of the greater Seacoast community
had rallied to save the property once
before, in 1996. They rallied once again,
posting weekly updates on a " Save Carey
Cottage " Facebook page and contacting
state and national historic preservation
organizations for assistance. But it appeared
no one was interested in the property.
" The challenge was to find a donor
who would allow use of the property and
keep the building, " says SPNHF President
Jack Savage.
Then Eric Chinburg, president and CEO
of Chinburg Properties in Newmarket
and a long-time developer of former mill
properties, had an idea. " When I learned
the Forest Society planned to demolish
the building, it broke my heart, " he says.
" I worked with Jack to find some way to
save the building. " Chinburg knew a
local philanthropist who sought space
to house a new nonprofit incubator.
They brainstormed with SPNHF and
announced a plan to save Carey Cottage
just weeks before demolition of the home
was scheduled.
Now, four years later, Carey Cottage
at Creek Farm is again a vital community
resource. The nonprofit incubator,
BY DEBBIE KANE | PHOTOGRAPHY BY GENEVE HOFFMAN OF 16 HOOPS LLC
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