What Makes Clark Hill Woods Unique?
We have gone to considerable lengths to preserve the character of the area and have done selective forestry management to enhance the health and beauty of all of the wooded areas that make up the majority each lot.
- Located animal trails on the property; designed lots so as to allow these to remain with little or no disturbance
- Selectively removed some trees to improve overall health of forested areas, allowing more sunlight to reach the forest floor, make walking, hiking, or cross-country skiing easier, and provide the ability to orient each home so it can benefit from passive solar warmth with no increase in building costs (more…)
Conserving Land and Wildlife
Several ways to conserve land and its wildlife are to put it in Current Use (this land is already in CU), to put a Conservation Easement on all or part of your property, and/or to have Covenants on the property (some Covenants are already in place) (more…)
Build Your Energy-Efficient Dream Home in New Hampshire
Clark Hill Woods Sign at Entrance (click to enlarge)
We have beautiful GREEN estate lots available in New Boston, New Hampshire, a New England village that retains its small-town character. These wooded parcels vary in size from 2+ to 12+ acres. Manchester, New Hampshire and its airport (Manchester-Boston Regional) are a short drive away, and Boston is just over an hour’s drive.
If you are interested in Clark Hill Woods as a place to build your dream home and/or if you’d like to learn what some of the options and technologies are when building a sustainable (green) home, please take a tour of our website. Also check out Build Green NH®.
We would be delighted if you’d take our survey after looking around the site, reading some of our posts and checking out some of our links. The survey should only take a few minutes and you can do so anonymously if you wish. Thanks!
Please contact John MacGilvary at Prudential Verani Real Estate if you are looking for pricing. Thanks!
John MacGilvary’s contact information:
Email: john.macgilvary@verani.com
Office: 603.4342377
Agent Phone: 603.845.2201, ext. 2201
Cell: 603:860.6488
Home Buying Tax Credits – 2010
The chart at left illustrates tax credits that are available to home buyers and the criteria for eligibility. These credits are part of the Federal Stimulus Package. (Source: FixR)
Click on the chart to see it at full size.
Superinsulation
What is superinsulation? What are its advantages? Is it cost-effective?
Superinsulation is an approach to building design, construction, and retrofitting. A superinsulated house is intended to be heated predominantly by intrinsic heat sources (waste heat generated by appliances and the body heat of the occupants) with very small amounts of backup heat. This has been demonstrated to work in very cold climates but requires close attention to construction details in addition to the insulation. (more…)
HERS Energy Rating System
HERS Index and related scales (From Wikipedia, “Home Energy Rating”)
Ratings provide a relative energy use index called the HERS Index – a HERS Index of 100 represents the energy use of the “American Standard Building” and an Index of 0 (zero) indicates that the Proposed Building uses no net purchased energy (a Zero Energy Building). The lower the value, the better.
For capitalizing a building’s energy performance in the mortgage loan, certification of “White Tags” for private financial investors, and by the US government for verification of building energy performance for such programs as federal tax incentives, the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building America Program.
The HERS Index was introduced in 2006 and replaced the earlier “HERS Score”, which ran in the opposite direction: The higher the value, the better.[1] In 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy presented a new scale, the “EnergySmart Home Scale (E-Scale)”, “based on” the HERS Index, apparently simply by subtracting the HERS Index from 100. In this new scale, higher values correspond again to better performance.[2]
Home Energy Rating System (HERS) Scale
Photos of New Boston Village
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Piscataquog River On Way Into New Boston
Dodge's General Store, New Boston, NH
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“The Apple Barn” Garden Shop
Bandstand Where Summer Concerts Are Held
New Boston Town Hall
New Boston Fire Station and the Community Church
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Is There Anything Special About New Boston?
- Central Elementary School (one of the top elementary schools in the State of NH)
- Town established in 1736; Incorporated in 1763
- Piscataquog Land Conservancy has its home in New Boston
- White Water Rafting
- Hillsborough County Agricultural Fair
- Central School, New Boston, NH
- Whitewater Rafting, New Boston Area
(ABOVE) A technical Class II paddle through forests and historic New Boston. A regular on the New Hampshire AMC’s early-spring trip list, the South Branch of the Piscataquog River is a fun paddle with plenty of rocks to dodge on its way to a wavy twist through the center of New Boston. It is a small river that must be run in March or early April when the water is high enough to float a kayak or canoe. There is one small dam that requires a short portage about a third of the way through the trip, but the dam in the center of New Boston has been breached and is easily runnable in high water.
New Boston NH Residents
A Few Notable Past and Present Residents of New Boston
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Jon Brooks
Roger Ward Babson
Also see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8561740@N08/4051768482/
Marty Kelley, Author/Illustrator
