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Cranberry House

Great Cranberry Island Historical Society's
new permanent Historical Museum
and multipurpose Cultural Center

Cranberry House is poised for its Grand Opening in 2008!
But we do have two current pressing needs:

To help out:


Construction Progress
Donations and Grants Received


Electrical Plan
obsolete working notes

Design
Cranberry House consists of a 2-story building with a walk-in basement.  The ground floor contains the Historical Museum and a kitchen for a take-out café with seating on the front deck.  The second floor holds the Cultural Center -- a large multipurpose room -- plus a bathroom.  The Multimedia Center, computer lab, and archival and utility rooms are in the walk-in basement.

Cranberry House sits on a 2-acre lot adjacent to the Parsonage.  The driveway entrance is directly off the main road, at the top of Schoolhouse Hill, with good views of the road in both directions.  The driveway goes past Cranberry House to a parking lot behind.

Walk-in and wheelchair visitors can mount an earthen ramp from the driveway to the front deck (and thence enter the Museum) -- or they can continue down the driveway to the parking lot, and onto a sloped path to the walk-in basement at the rear of the building.  All path slopes are 1-in-20, to allow safe wheelchair passage.  A lift will be installed between the first and second floors, funds permitting.


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Cranberry House Lot Layout
(updated 10 apr 2007)

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Cranberry House Landscaping
(updated 16 aug 2005)

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Artist's Conception of Cranberry House
(updated 16 aug 2005)


Actual photo of Cranberry House
21 June 2007


previous (obsolete) version


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Museum (lower floor) layout
(updated 20 mar 2007)


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Cultural Center (upper floor) layout
(updated 20 mar 2007)



Multimedia Center (basement)
(10 apr 2007)



Hitty Café Kitchen
(20 Jan 2008)



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