{"id":12463,"date":"2026-07-09T20:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12463"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:39:59","slug":"video-revival-of-the-reverend-morrison-meeting-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12463","title":{"rendered":"Video: Revival of the Reverend Morrison Meeting House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7\/6\/2026 Town meeting discussion\u00a0regarding the potential preservation of the\u00a0Reverend Morrison House. The council members ultimately voted unanimously to authorize the town manager to submit an\u00a0owner consent form, which seeks to place the building on the\u00a0State Registry of Historic Places. During the discussion, participants debated the availability of\u00a0grant funding\u00a0and addressed concerns regarding how a historical designation might impact future\u00a0renovation costs\u00a0or material requirements. Supporters emphasized that official recognition would bolster\u00a0grassroots fundraising\u00a0efforts and provide access to specific financial resources without imposing restrictive regulations on the property. While councilor Faber initially suggested a\u00a0one-year trial period\u00a0to ensure progress was being made, the final motion passed without that specific time constraint to give advocates a fair opportunity to secure support. Overall, the discussion captures the local government&#8217;s attempt to balance\u00a0historic preservation\u00a0goals with fiscal responsibility and practical community concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Revival of the Reverend Morrison Meeting House\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MB-tlMPrM7E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7\/6\/2026 Town meeting discussion\u00a0regarding the potential preservation of the\u00a0Reverend Morrison House. The council members ultimately voted unanimously to authorize the town manager to submit an\u00a0owner consent form, which seeks to place the building on the\u00a0State Registry of Historic Places. During the discussion, participants debated the availability of\u00a0grant funding\u00a0and addressed concerns&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12464,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12463\/revisions\/12464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}