In the coming weeks, a two-person Arcadis inspection team will conduct in-home service line inspections at select Manchester residences. Team members will carry identification badges and wear Arcadis-branded safety vests. If your property is selected for inspection, you will receive a door hanger notice in advance. Please call 860-647-6050 with any questions or concerns.
Due to staffing shortages in the Building Inspection Division, permit processing and inspection scheduling may be delayed. To monitor your permit status, visit the Online Permit Portal or call 860-647-3052. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience.
Log Cabin Appreciation Day
The public is invited to learn more about the effort to preserve the log cabin at Case Mountain on Wednesday, April 26, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., starting at the parking lot at Birch Mountain Road, Manchester, near its intersection with Camp Meeting Road. Additional parking at the Greenway lot on Camp Meeting Road at the intersection of Porter Street, near Highland Park Market. Weather permitting, there will be music. Mark Connors and Matt Panecki, organizers of the Friends of the Log Cabin will describe some options for saving the historic summer house from demolition, including some incremental improvements. The cabin is in the Case Brothers National Historic District, and is described as a “circa 1918 log cabin…fashioned of salvaged timber from the Highland Park property at the time of the chestnut blight. Family members believe the cabin, built for Carol Maude Case Dennison and her husband Robert Dennison (b. l875), was erected by mill workers under the supervision of French Canadian builders brought to Manchester specifically for the project.” The public can come any time between 5:30 and 7:00. Rain or shine, but extreme weather cancels. The Friends have a Facebook group called Save The Cabin At Case Mountain. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1082646399352100/
1918 photo of the Adirondack-style summer house.