THE Pink House DEEMED in SOlid Shape TODAY

When Governor Healey stepped in to stop The Pink House from imminent demolition,  the next day an article came out in the State House news with fairly shocking claims to those of us in the know. 

On February 14, 2025 STPH had a licensed contractor do a house health check and full walk through. He confirmed the house is in remarkably solid shape, and can be fully restored. This after being fully exposed over 3 mo. to multiple heavy rains, high winds, weeks of freezing temps.  See attached letter from Ted Caswell.

This is in direct contrast to FWS quotes from the 10/31/24 Drysdale article widely shared by the Boston Globe, the Daily News, etc quoting Matt Hillman, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge Manager.  “What we’re left with is a shell of a structure. It’s dangerous for me and my team to be out there near it,” Hillman said. “The dilapidated structure is a safety hazard.”

“But we are very concerned about the condition of this property. We don’t know how long we can hold,” he said.

The roof referred to in the article as collapsed was not even part of the house, but a flimsy storage shed in back, that would have been removed in restoration anyway. Very misleading - yet most of the public could not know this. And it was unfortunately spread from the State House News to the Boston Globe to the Daily News without calling us for comment.  

1. This confirms the 11/2023 house health letter from our Building Advisor, who performed checks multiple times per year since 2/5/2016. See his letter attached, which also appeared as a pg. 3 half page ad in the Daily News, and got the highest open rate on our blog. 
2. Some involved in the remediation told us the levels were not as represented to the public. We were given the asbestos report by the prior FWS manager and it seemed so from what we had.

Both are in direct contrast to how the house is being portrayed to the public and the press.