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North Clarendon Important date!
Town Of Clarendon Select Board
- Community repurposing meeting at Grange Hall at 5-5:30PM
- Town Presentation –
- 2025 Report
- Building Assessment – done
- Painting Partially done
- Roof – Finished
- Next Steps
- Bathroom pending
- Furnace, need new oil tank
- Handicap access entrance
- Windows underway – Waiting for individual Donations ($1200/piece)
- Brick pathways – School Projects with artist Anne Francey
- Clarendon citizen to buy bricks ($100-150/each)
3-5 PM
at North Clarendon Chapel
On October 15th, 3 PM-5 PM
On October 15th, starting at 3 PM, a meeting will be held at the North Clarendon Chapel to discuss its future. The meeting will focus on discussing the project among interested parties to prepare for the new Select Board town meeting on October 27th, 2025, at the Grange at 5:30. The aim is to request the town’s support for reopening this chapel to meet the needs of Clarendon residents.
Anyone interested in this project is invited to attend the first meeting to voice the community’s needs for our presentation. We look forward to having a well-attended meeting for the future of the Chapel and the North Clarendon Village. Feel free to use the comment box below to ask any questions or make helpful comments. Please review all our efforts and accomplishments since our first presentation in 2018 at Chapel1871.org or ClarendonHeritage.org.
We look forward to see you.
Nicolette Asselin, Organizer for the Project and Meeting
Future Plans:
- Cleaning
- New Furnace, water heater and well update.
- Window repairs
- Install brick pathways and handicap accessible entrance in the back with new door.
- Scrape and paint old tin ceiling
- Painting building
- Front door with attractive color (Mustard?)
- Finish front landscape to add outdoor benches during summer months.
- Apply for Village Designation and apply for additional grants,
- RFP pending.
Budget (updated daily)
PDF announcement
Important Meeting for the Future of the Village of Clarendon
On this date Clarendon Heritage (CH) will presents to the Town of Clarendon again the plans for repurposing Chapel 1871 or the North Clarendon Chapel.
dThe community want to create a Citizen Cultural and Social Club since the chapel had been used as such during the early 1900 according to Steven Sorel. This is in great demand as people choose to Stay at Home to age. The weight to the family can be overwhelming and this would offer the opportunity to members of the community to have a place to meet regularly with supervision.
It would follow a known model of Oasis.
In order to achieve this goal, Corpwell Foundation, in charge of Clarendon Heritage, is asking on behalf of the community for acceptance of the plan and if accepted request from the town to cover some of the cost of repurposing the building to move ahead as the community is in urgent need of this service for it’s citizen.
To review past years progress or subscribe for News: Chapel1871.org
Landcape Report
- Larch Tree survived the winter and growing slowly as planned.
- Expanding circle
- Planted front right of the Chapel
2025 Plans
- Neighborhood Meeting October 15th, 2025, 3-5 to review plans and discuss.
- Town Meeting to present plan: October 27th, 2025
- Work proposals. due by October 15th, 2025
Work request proposals. Due by October 15th, 2025
- Painting of Right side of chapel
- Reconditioning tin ceiling
- Electrical
- Wood Stove purchase and installation
- Incinerator Handicap Accessible Bathroom
- Well evaluation
- Roof Inspection
- Brick Pathways
Finalize Budget
1871 Chapel Building
- Built by Clarendon Baptists in 1871, on a 30’x45’ lot (ref. 1980 Annual report).
The building is significant for its vernacular style and landmark for the village of North Clarendon.
It displays rounded colored glass windows, a steeple and an open shingled belfry with a polygonal spire.
The Town of Clarendon at that time was more significant in population than Rutland but much of the history has disappeared. The town had many districts and each one had a school. The 1869 map of Clarendon indicated there were 9 schools at that time, 1 for each district. That time frame corresponds nicely with the construction of the North Clarendon Chapel. In that timeframe, we find the Brick Church (1824), the Queen Anne East Clarendon Chapel and the Chippenhook Meetinghouse built in 1798 that burned in 1971.) The town has very few buildings remaining of that period. The Chapel was at the old core of North Clarendon Village where one would have found a Tavern, a Tea House and Inn.
1915-1920. Senior Gathering Club
2015 Corpwell Foundation accepted donation by the White family
2016 Received a grant for an Architectural Assessment
State Grant Application denied
2017 Window assessment
2018 Town Presentation
- Plan well received by audience.
2019 Postponing development due to partner serious fall.
20252020 Roof Repairs-Back part standing seem roof.
2020-2024 Painting in process
- Following National Historic Preservation Guidelines by Steve Sorel and Clayton Rockwell.
Received estimates to finish painting: $9,000-$15,000
2024 Landscaping report
- Created a walkway for future brick walk and circle for benches.
- Planted tulips and two small Larch Tree that will be relocated to side of chapel to create a frame.
- Prepare future planting area on each side of the front.
- Clayton Rockwell is attending to mowing and weeds
We have received quotes for roof repairs. The back roof and slate repairs will cost $11,000.
We have raised $6000 so far. We would like to make an appeal to the community and business owners for the second half. Any support will offer recognition.
Thanks to a generous donation, the new standing seems roof in the back was added and the slate roof was repaired.
Back
Contact us, if you wish to be a benefactor.
Roof
During the fall of 2019, the back roof will be replaced, purple slate roof minor repairs and steeple evaluation. Thanks to donations from Willard Squier, Fundraisers of Friends of the North Clarendon Chapel and a matching grant by Corpwell Foundation.
Paint
Due to lack of funding at this time, a plan for stabilization of paint is underway:
Architect recommendation:
“if funding is not obtained paint stabilizer could be applied: this would consist of a small amount of prep (basic wire-brushing to remove loose paint) and application of a latex primer on all bare wood, to hold it for a year or two until full painting can be done.”
A Grant will pay for materials, Clayton Rockwell is planning to head volunteer efforts.
Preservation Brief. Exterior Paint Problems on Historic Woodwork by Kay D. Weeks and David W. Look, U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Cultural Resources Heritage Preservation Services
Plans for coming years
State Historic Grant application for window repairs
Chapel’s Arched Stained Window details