Cranberry House Cranberry HouseAbout 1/4 mile down the main road from the Great Cranberry Island town dock, Cranberry House has many great attractions:
Cranberry House opens in 2008!
Hitty's Café was opened 4 June, after a pre-opening "Sweet Sale."
The Preble-Marr Historical Museum opened 15 June.
The first event at the Cultural Center - Movie Night - was on 16 June.
The official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony will be held on 4 July.
We could still use funds to support events at the Cultural Center. 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
click to enlarge Cranberry House Lot Layout (updated 10 apr 2007) |
click to enlarge Cranberry House Landscaping (updated 16 aug 2005) |
Actual photo of Cranberry House
21 June 2007
previous (obsolete) version
click to enlarge Museum (lower floor) layout (updated 20 mar 2007) |
click to enlarge Cultural Center (upper floor) layout (updated 20 mar 2007) |
click to enlarge Multimedia Center (basement) (10 apr 2007) |
click to enlarge Hitty's Café Kitchen (20 Jan 2008) |