Message-ID: <9FECFF2EBBDC4B90813DC98D8E9DA8A7@DESKTOPD9CJGTC> From: <rljpilch@pctcnet.net> Subject: Re: heating historic buildings Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:53:22 -0600
Price County Historical Society has an 1894 Old Town Hall (two story)
and a 1905 one room school. Neither building is heated. The Old Town
Hall Museum began operating as a museum in 1976 and has never been
heated. The one room school served as our office space at one time and
was heated then, but has not been heated for years now. We pull the
shades on all of the windows and cover all of the artifacts and displays
with cloth sheets usually sometime in October and uncover in May. We
have not noticed any adverse effects. In the summer we do run
dehumidifiers in both buildings to control moisture.
Laurie Pilch, Secretary/Treasurer
Member, Board of Directors
Price County Historical Society
From: Jarrod Roll
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 3:45 PM
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Subject: heating historic buildings
Hello friends.
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 and close it up for the
winter—do you heat it or not?
Thank you,
Jarrod
Jarrod Roll
Director / County Historian
Monroe County Local History Room & Museum
200 West Main St.
Sparta, WI 54656
608-269-8680
www.MonroeCountyHistory.org
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/MCLHR