Nantucket Preservation Trust recently recorded a new preservation easement at 23/25 Fair Street, the c. 1837 George Folger House. The house has changed little over its nearly 200 year history, and the easement will ensure that the building exterior and its well-preserved Greek Revival style interior details including the main staircase, molded window and door frames, fireplaces with original wooden mantlepieces, lime plaster walls, and wide plank floorboards will be preserved in perpetuity. The easement also protects the open space to the north of the house, on the corner of Fair and Charter Streets, the former site of a Pence School, moved to Quince Street in the late-19th century.
Homeowner Philip Carpenter says he hopes his decision to place an easement on the house, restored by his parents, Mary Grace and Charles Carpenter, Jr. in the 1960s, will “encourage others to follow my path in preserving historic Nantucket.”
The easement on 23/25 Fair Street was created and recorded in part with funding from NPT’s Clarissa Porter Easement Fund. The Fund, named in honor of the late Clarissa Porter, who donated NPT’s first easement in 1999, provides dedicated funding in support of NPT’s easement program. Click here to learn more about preservation easements.