Robert Frost’s Home and Museum in Franconia Among LCHIP Grant Recipients

LCHIP grants will preserve iconic NH landmarks, open space properties

The 31 recipients of the Land & Community Heritage Investment Program’s (LCHIP) $3.5 million grants this year will preserve some of the state’s most iconic buildings, from poet Robert Frost’s home in Franconia to part of the Canterbury Shaker Village…

Robert Frost’s Home and Museum in Franconia Among LCHIP Grant Recipients

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.orgFRANCONIA – In a 1919 letter written by poet Robert Frost, he worried that the cellar to his 1850s home here was so flooded with water that it might destroy the recently purchased furnace.While that did not happen, it is not likely to do so in the future.That house – now a seasonal museum in Franconia – will get a $130,000 matching grant and is among 31 grants throughout the state announced Wednesday by the New Hamps…

Frost Place Gains $130G Grant Awatd

Governor Kelly Ayotte joined the N.H. Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) in announcing a $130,ooo grant award to The Frost Place in Franconia, N.H. It was part of more than $3.5 million in matching grants to support 31…