BATH
At its 41st annual meeting, Sagadahoc Preservation Inc. presented its Friend of Preservation Award to the Maine Maritime Museum in recognition of its 50 years of “preserving the buildings, artifacts and stories of our maritime heritage in the City of Ships.”
Founded as the Marine Research Society in 1962 to underwrite a maritime history of Bath, the organization opened the Bath Marine Museum in a small downtown storefront in 1964.
Renamed Maine Maritime Museum in 1975 to reflect its expanded role, its collections have grown to include more than 21,000 objects, 3,000,000 manuscript items and 130,000 photographs, and it maintains the buildings of the Percy & Small Shipyard, the last relatively intact yard that built large wooden schooners.
This fall, the museum was named one of the 10 best maritime museums in the world by Marine Insight, a trade publication.
Awards for preservation and restoration projects in Bath were presented for 762 Middle St., to owners Benjamin Burden and Daniel Eosco and to contractor James Omo; for 859 Middle St., to owner Louisa P. Edgerton; and for 702 Washington St., to owners Kathryn and Kenneth Brill.
Sagadahoc County commissioners also received an award for the extensive repairs and restoration of masonry and brownstone trim on the Sagadahoc County Courthouse, which was designed by Bath native Francis Fassett and completed in 1869.
New trustees elected to three-year terms are Sam Armentrout, Larry Bartlett, Jill Burden and Daniel Eosco. New officers are co-presidents Sally DeMartini and Amy Hranicky, treasurer John Marsh and Secretary Martha Mayo.
Sagadahoc Preservation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving architectural heritage in Bath and the surrounding towns of southern Sagadahoc County.
It owns the Winter Street Center, 880 Washington St., which it rents for meetings, weddings and other events, and where its Dreamland Theater shows movies every Thursday evening.
Volunteers put on the annual June house tour, lectures and workshops, and also teach local fourth-grade classes about historic architecture.
To learn more or to volunteer, visit the website at www.sagadahocpreservation.org.
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