Projects:
Loans.
Photo shoots.
Exhibit cleaning.
Environmental monitoring.
Moth problem. New stuff
Christmas decorating. De decorating.
Data base update.
Possible year round tea house.
Possible digital collections project.

1. ) Barn Basement artifact storage: mitigation on going and stable.
2. ) Cellar artifact storage. Stabilized.
3. ) Attic artifact storage. Mitigation seeking.
4. ) Roof leaking at front ( east ) masonry. Plaster damage in front hall. Mitigation seeking. Re flash the chimney.
5. ) Clothes moths. Trapping, tracking source. New info.
6. ) Possible wasp nest in east wall. Woodpeckers have drilled two holes in the S.E. window frames. Blocked.
Tracking trapping. Waiting for spring now.

The primary source of environmental problems can be attributed to the door leading out to the ground level and crawl space access area beneath Point Ellice House it's self. This door, un insulated and without weather stripping, poorly prevents cold wet air flowing down stairs from outside and into the cellar area. The cellar is under grade level of brick and mortar construction and seems to be water tight with no detected seepage. Mitigation seems possible as thermal loss would not be great under ground.
A small population of spiders supply insect pest management on an all you can eat basis.
 
 

A "blanket" of polyester batting and polyethylene sheet can be secured to the entrance mentioned, secured by cotton tape or twine, to prevent air flow through to the cellar.
A recently purchased ( $46.00 ) small ceramic heater with fan is left running on a low or medium setting to give both heat and air circulation to the room and by this slowly bring both temperate and humidity to acceptable stable levels. While these remedies will improve conditions greatly it is unlikely the cellar would ever be an ideal artifact storage area and a new one is needed.

With a small amount of planning many of the garden related artifacts now stored in the cellar might be housed in a new permanent exhibit featuring the heated green house that once occupied an area on the P.E.H. site and could be nicely built into a glassed in tea house environment, should one be constructed.