From: Maureen Giese <renie.giese@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 19:26:20 -0600 Message-ID: <CAESRZzht2U_WB0e5CzE3hp8AV7-o_GpXSFcFuoANtVWXvcYjaw@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: heating historic buildings
The Waterloo (WI) Area Historical Society exists in the 1869 cream city
built-brick former St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Since we have original art
from calendar artists Zula Keynon and Adelaide Heibel we keep the Museum
heated at 55 degrees. It costs about $86 a month. We did have insulation
put in the attic area a couple of years ago and that helps keep the
temperature stable. Also keep a ceiling fan on all the time.
Maureen Giese
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 7:07 PM Richfield Historical Society <
historyrhs@gmail.com> wrote:
> We heat 2 of our buildings (one with propane and the other with natural
> gas) due to there being artifacts and old furniture in them. We keep the
> temp relatively low—not sure what that temp is, maybe 55.. We get
help from
> our Village with the gas heated building.
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> Hope this helps.
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> Richfield Historical Society
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> On Dec 10, 2020, at 6:53 PM, Jarrod Roll <mclhr@centurytel.net> wrote:
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> Hello friends.
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> I have a question for you which I am asking on behalf of another
> historical organization which owns historic buildings. For those of you
> who own a standalone, small building (like a one-room school or church),
do
> you heat it in the winter? The historical society who owns a one-room
> school in our area doesn’t want to heat it in the winter because
it isn’t
> used and there is a significant heating bill involved. However, I know
> that even minimally heating an old building helps to preserve it. So, I
> would appreciate hearing from those of you who own a historic building an
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> close it up for the winter—do you heat it or not?
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> Thank you,
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> Jarrod
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> Jarrod Roll
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> Director / County Historian
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> Monroe County Local History Room & Museum
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> 200 West Main St.
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> Sparta, WI 54656
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> 608-269-8680
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> www.MonroeCountyHistory.org
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> Facebook: www.Facebook.com/MCLHR
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