Vineyard Trust

May 27, 1977

Historic Preservation Society Will Restore Vincent House

George W. Adams
A home has been found for what may well be the Island’s oldest house. Within a matter of months the old Vincent house which now stands on the MacKenty property on Edgartown Great Pond will be moved to the back yard of the Dr. Daniel Fisher House at the entrance to Edgartown proper.
Vineyard Trust
Vincent House Museum
July 18, 1980

Preservation Society Gains Historic Whaling Church

Hollis L. Engley
The trustees of Edgartown’s stately, pillared Methodist Church have voted to transfer ownership of the building to the Martha’s Vineyard Historical Preservation Society.
Old Whaling Church
Vineyard Trust
May 27, 2021

Flying Horses Reopening Friday

The historic platform carousel in Oak Bluffs whirls again beginning this weekend, and daily once Island schools are out.
Flying Horses
Vineyard Trust
June 4, 2021

Town Stalls Funding for Whaling Church Restoration

Noah Asimow
Public funding for a project to repaint and restore the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown is on hold after the discovery that a work estimate from the Vineyard Trust had been altered.
Old Whaling Church
Vineyard Trust
Community Preservation Act

1980

August 29, 1980

North Water Corp. Looks to Merger

Vineyard Gazette
Vineyard Trust
The proposed merger of the North Water Street Corporation with the Vineyard Historical Preservation Society moved several steps nearer at the annual North Water street stockholders and directors meeting yesterday.
 
July 18, 1980

Preservation Society Gains Historic Whaling Church

Hollis L. Engley
Old Whaling Church
Vineyard Trust
The trustees of Edgartown’s stately, pillared Methodist Church have voted to transfer ownership of the building to the Martha’s Vineyard Historical Preservation Society. The gift of the 137-year-old church of whaling days ends years of struggle by the small congregation to keep the building, and opens the way to the creation of the largest year-round auditorium on the Island.
 
July 11, 1980

Island History Reveals Itself At Edgartown’s Vincent House

Tom Dunlop
Vineyard Trust
Vincent House Museum
Edgartown History
The 300-year-old Vincent House, perhaps the oldest home on the Island, is open once again to the public in Edgartown for the summer.
 
The remarkable aspect of this house is it’s architecture. There are only limited furnishings inside, and the restorers - John Warren Norton, Anne Baker and C. Stuart Avery of the Martha’s Vineyard Historic Preservation Society - have fashioned the house in the most interesting way possible.
 

1977

May 27, 1977

Historic Preservation Society Will Restore Vincent House

George W. Adams
Vineyard Trust
Vincent House Museum

A home has been found for what may well be the Island’s oldest house.

Within a matter of months the old Vincent house which now stands on the MacKenty property on Edgartown Great Pond will be moved to the back yard of the Dr. Daniel Fisher House at the entrance to Edgartown proper.

1975

November 7, 1975

Funds Are Sought for Saving Effort

Vineyard Gazette
Vineyard Trust
Dr Daniel Fisher House
The trustees of the two-year-old Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Society have begun a campaign - low-key, by mail - for funds and something besides.
 
“At the moment we are preparing a federal tax exemption application requesting tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service,” says a letter signed by trustees Paul R. Anderson and C. Stuart Avery. “In making this request we are anxious to show the Internal Revenue Service that what started out as an interest of a group of people does have public support and is likely to continue to do  so.”
 

1974

May 3, 1974

Details Prove the Care Taken with Fisher House Restoration

Edith Blake
Dr Daniel Fisher House
Vineyard Trust
The columns on the Dr. Daniel Fisher house in Edgartown could not be called fakes, because they certainly have done their job of holding up the portico for over 130 years. They are better called copies, for originally they were designed for the Tower of Winds built in Athens from 100 to 35 B. C., and they come highly recommended by Asher Benjamin, who was the godfather of this period of American architecture.
 

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