[MassHistPres] Sales/new owners in LHDs

[Garrett Laws]

Michelle,

Aside from the challenges of tracking the sales of your current inventory,
mailing (dropping off) a resource pamphlet to existing and new homeowners
is a great way to be proactive with the districts and homeowners that you
work with to keep a city or town's historic fabric in place.

Does anyone already distribute something directly to historic property
owners?

Many Thanks,
Garrett Laws

The Copper & Slate Company <https://copperandslate.net>

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Fine Roofing and Historic Carpentry
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Waltham, MA 02453
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM Johnstone, Michelle via MassHistPres <
masshistpres at cs.umb.edu> wrote:

> Good afternoon, everyone –
>
>
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> Happy Monday! Reaching out to the greater group to ask: what you all do in
> your community when a property is sold in a local historic district? Do you
> monitor for sales and send a welcome letter? If so, do you find that this
> is helpful? Here in Worcester, we don’t do anything, and sometimes new
> homeowners find out that they are in a local historic district the first
> time they pull a permit on the property. Of course, sometimes no permit is
> pulled (and sometimes isn’t even required), which causes issues when people
> claim they simply didn’t know/were never told their property is in a local
> historic district.
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> If anyone has a great example of a letter that you send to new historic
> property owners, please feel free to share!
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> Best,
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>
> *Michelle H. Johnstone *
>
> Senior Preservation Planner
>
> Executive Office of Economic Development | Planning & Regulatory Services
> Division
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> City of Worcester | 455 Main Street, Rm 404, Worcester, MA 01608
>
> P: 508-799-1400 x31410
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> C: 774-622-0695
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> E: johnstonem at worcesterma.gov
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> www.worcesterma.gov
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