Purchase and Personalize a Brick for Grandview Farm

The following is a release from the Grand View Advisory Committee:

Replication of the barn is close to completion, and town officials are poised to tackle the next project: site grading, parking, and landscaping.

Requests for renting the barn and/or farmhouse are growing, but Assistant Town Administrator Tom Hickey, who is responsible for the Grand View project, said recently that rentals will not be available until landscaping and parking is completed and a rental policy is in place.  

In the meantime, the Grand View Advisory Committee (GVAC) continues to help oversee the renovations, and to raise money to help fund Grand View. 

The Buy A Brick program, now in its second phase, has sold more than 500 bricks, as of March 26.  Brick Chairman Bill McDonough reminds residents and local businesses that buying a brick is an excellent way to mark a milestone, honor or remember a loved one, or note an important life event.

To date, scores of individuals, families and businesses have bought bricks with a variety of inscriptions.  Children, grandchildren, parents and grandparents are honored and remembered.  Businesses, civic groups, and town departments have bought bricks.   And, many families have inscribed bricks with personal words.  For example:

• ‘Since 1972, we call Burlington home.’
• ‘Celebrate Burlington.’
• ‘Happy Birthday, son.’
• ‘Thanks for all you are, we love you, Mom.’
• ‘Mark and Scott Fusco, Olympians.’
•  ‘Glad to help and restore.’
• ‘Dedicated to a wonderful son, my pride and joy.’
• ‘Grand visions for Burlington, past and future.’
• ‘I love you, ma!’
• ‘Pride in restoring Burlington’s history.’
• ‘Four generations in Burlington.’
• ‘To my family. I love you to the moon and back!’

Descendants of the Marion and McIntire families, who lived in Grand View during its history, have also bought bricks.

Location of this second phase of bricks on the site has not been finalized.

4 x 8 bricks available, including three lines of inscription, at a cost of $50. Also available are 8 x 8 bricks, with six lines, at a cost $150.

To buy a brick, contact McDonough at 781-272-8195. 

The Grand View Advisory Committee meets the second and fourth Wednesday of every week, at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall annex.  New members are always welcome.