New Hampshire
Island Chapel Dating to 1800 off NH to Get Preservation Work
RYE, N.H. (AP) — A nonprofit group is getting cash to assist protect a nineteenth century chapel on an island off New Hampshire.
Star Island Company obtained the grants in help of labor to protect the Gosport Chapel on Star Island. The group obtained a $10,000 grant from 1772 Basis in cooperation with N.H. Preservation Alliance and one other $10,000 from Cogswell Benevolent Belief.
The chapel is 222 years outdated and wishes the work on its exterior. Peter Squires, Star Island’s director of growth, described the chapel as “a easy stone meetinghouse inbuilt 1800 on the very best level of Star Island.”
The island opens up for its season in the course of June. One of many longstanding traditions on the island is lantern-lit night providers on the chapel.
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