Climate Resiliency

Climate change poses a threat to nearly every aspect of our lives, including the preservation of our cultural sites and resources. Areas of concern at The House of the Seven Gables include but are not limited to monitoring the hydrology of our site to understand how storm water flows and how best to protect our historic resources, making our seawall resilient enough to handle rising sea levels, and investigating how to protect our utilities and critical infrastructure from future water inundation. Like all curators of historic properties, we consider the span of centuries, rather than years or decades. This consideration makes preservation and sustainability an ideal pairing. At The Gables, we seek to enhance this partnership not only through the improvement of energy efficiency and conservation of historic building materials but also through using the lens that inherently sustainable design can come from the past.