The Maritime Museum at 70 Water St. is soon to get a new look.
The city will deploy a little over $78,000 of Community Preservation Act funding to remove the existing fac?ade — the steel matrix and infill panels imitative of a New York City terminal that the Fall River Line frequented back in the day — from the front of the building.
The museum has been closed “for safety issues,” Battleship Cove COO Chris Nardi said in a City Council meeting on Nov. 5. These concerns are related to “the problem” of the building’s fac?ade, he said.
In an August storm, third-story infill panels were disengaged and wound up on the lawn. Nardi estimated this happened at about 3 a.m., when no visitors were present.
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