Friday, May 17, 2013
The state has approved a matching $25,000 grant earmarked for the repair of Hatboro's 200-year-old clock tower.
Hatboro will be $25,000 closer to restarting the hands of time, an official told Patch. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission this week approved a $25,000 matching grant for Hatboro's ongoing clock tower restoration project, Bill Dixon, a legislative aide for State Rep. Tom Murt told Patch. Dixon said PHMC green-lighted its share of funding for the project on Wednesday and is in the process of sending a contract to Hatboro with pertinent details. In all, the total restoration and repair of the borough's circa 1812 clock tower is expected to cost $51,000, Dixon said. Hatboro Councilwoman Patty Fleming, who sits on a clock tower committee along with Dixon and Hatboro community members, said in March that the group was "better …
Friday, March 29, 2013
As Hatboro awaits the next grant to repair its 200-year-old clock tower, fundraising continues for the project's local match.
Whether or not Hatboro receives the $25,000 matching grant sought to restore its historically significant clock tower, fundraising efforts are on pace to cover the borough match, an official told Patch. "We’re better than halfway to our $25,000," said Hatboro Borough Councilwoman Patty Fleming, who sits on a committee overseeing the clock tower's restoration efforts. "I’m not worried about it. People have been generous. This projet has really gotten some nice attention from people." The council submitted its latest Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission grant application last month. If received, that $25,000 grant, plus the local match, would cover construction costs associated with repairing and eventually restarting the hands of …
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Hatboro has received state funding to cover the 100 hours required to take apart and diagnose fixes for the clock tower atop borough hall, but fundraising is ongoing to repair, reassemble it.
At a minimum, the 200-year-old clock tower perched above the Hatboro municipal building will require 291 hours of work to clean, repair, restore and replace any parts not in working order. But, to pinpoint with better preciseness exactly what is needed to once again move the hands of time, antique clock restoration expert Keith Winship of Winships’ Pieces of Time said he first must take the historic clock apart, photograph and document each and every piece to determine exactly what parts are needed and exactly how much the labor and materials will cost. “It’s very difficult to say exactly what we’re going to do without taking the clock apart,” Winship told the council on Monday night. “I can’t just look at what’s up there and say, ‘this …
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
The next step in restoring Hatboro's 200-year-old clock tower is to have clockmaker Keith Winship devise a restoration plan.
Money is in hand for the first phase of a long-awaited project aimed at bringing Hatboro's 200-year-old clock tower back to life. Hatboro Borough Councilwoman Patty Fleming, one of about a dozen volunteers serving on a committee for the clock’s restoration and preservation, told Patch that the Millbrook Society – the local fundraising arm of the initiative – was successful in raising the $5,000 needed for a $5,000 matching grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. "We're still fundraising," Fleming said. To date, volunteers have obtained in excess of $6,000, she said, adding that anything above the $5,000 needed for the first phase will go toward future clock restoration efforts. Officials had expected to have a …
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