WRITTEN BY | CHRISTINA KOCH


he Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Rec- reation (DCR), Boston, manages 450,000 acres of state parks that include beaches, campgrounds, dams, islands, mountains and millions of miles of hiking trails.


Within these parks are hundreds of buildings, many of which are historically significant but have no iden- tified use and, therefore, fall low on the state’s list of priorities for maintenance and upkeep. In the early 1990s, state officials realized they were losing some notable buildings because the state didn’t


PHOTO: KRISTA PHOTOGRAPHY, COURTESY WILLOWDALE ESTATE


have the funds to maintain them. Consequently, Mas- sachusetts passed legislation in 1994 that identified 22 buildings within its parks that could be rehabili- tated through a unique public-private partnership known as the Historic Curatorship Program. Today, the program includes 60 properties, 20 of which are


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