From: Joanne Dalton <daltonfarms84@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:12:10 -0600 Message-ID: <CAFK1PDStYSL-Bo2EBr1D+fwpSyWuGR-2GKnM_-_QSTysJFx91Q@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: heating historic buildings
In Columbia County, we own an old 3 story hotel building, We keep the main
floor minimally heated, setting the thermostat at 50-55 degrees. Some heat
escapes to the second floor, though we do keep a door closed at the top of
the stairs. We built a block building that is attached on the backside of
the hotel building and through another connecting doorway, we have an
original One-Room Schoolhouse that was moved in and attached onto the back
of that - it's a loooong building!. Visitors can walk through the entire
first floor of the Museum front to back all inside. We close off the
doors and do not heat the block building or the schoolhouse. We have
handicap accessible restrooms in the block building, which we drain for the
winter. (We are closed from Nov - May.) The block building is our "Tool
Room" - household and small farm equipment and tools, etc. The cold doesn't
seem to adversely affect anything in there or in the schoolhouse. We have
more trouble with the school in the summer, as we have to keep a
dehumidifier running in there because we worry about the books getting
musty.
Joanne Dalton, Pres, Columbia Co. Historical Society
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 6:53 PM Jarrod Roll <mclhr@centurytel.net> wrote:
> 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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