What's Your Favorite or Most Pleasing View of Windsor Locks?
As we head into the warm summer months, the flags flying from the front porches and stoops on Spring Street seem to snap and wave with more vigor and the red, white and blue colors pop with a crisp vividness.

As I walk or drive east on Spring Street, especially in May, June and July, on that slight crest just before St. Mary's, the flags, the homes, the road and the blue sky perfectly frame the 1891 Montgomery building across the canal. The brick section of the old building seems to quietly observe the Main Street area; the Montgomery buildings comfortably anchor the eastern edge of the town. They also anchor the town's character. For me, it's a pleasing way to see Windsor Locks on a daily basis.

So what's your favorite view of Windsor Locks?
As you walk or drive around town, what physical feature in town is most pleasing to you? It could be a building (private or commercial), a natural feature or a bridge or stretch of railroad tracks. These physical features make up the character of our town. Tell us what your favorite view is: Post it on this blog! If we pull together enough responses and compile them, maybe we can say something about what we want our town to look like in the future.

Have a great June!

- Wayne

Windsor Locks Preservation Association

Strategic Plan

Mission Statement: What's Our Business

We are the Windsor Locks Preservation Association, Inc. Working to in harmony with a love of community, we gather and preserve knowledge, books, records, artifacts and property/real estate relating to the life--past and present--of Windsor Locks, Connecticut. We provide accessibility to all who wish to examine these. We publish books and prepare for observances of Windsor Locks anniversaries. We avail ourselves to all other activities related to Windsor Locks historic preservation and awareness. We provide knowledge and guidance to all who inquire.

Vision Statement: What We're Committed To

The WLPA are preservation advocates and ambassadors for Windsor Locks who want to educate citizens, business owners and visitors about our history and architectural heritage and ensure the vitality of our community through planning rather than chance. We are committed to helping create a community that demonstrates a respect for history.

Values: What We Believe

The WLPA believes that preserving our historic resources will help make our community a better place to live and to visit. We believe we can help make change happen by grassroots organizing and speaking out on issues related to our community heritage. The WLPA will remain transparent in its operations and responsive to its members.

Goals

The WLPA will achieve its mission by:

1. Promote and encourage the adpative reuse of historic properties.
2. Document and promote the town's historic resources and community heritage.
3. Encourage a town vision that uses historic preservation as an important development tool.

Strategies of Achieving Goals

1. Promote and encourage the adpative reuse of historic properties.
• Acquire the train station, restore and make it usable.
• Produce a WLPA brochure that outlines the benefits of historic preservation.
• Create programs for Preservation Month.
• Re-instate preservation award program.
2. Document and promote the town's historic resources and community heritage.
• Conduct an historic building inventory.
• Write articles on local history topics to be published in local papers.
• Create "Walking Tours" program.
• Create programs for Preservation Month.
3. Encourage a town vision that uses historic preservation as an important development tool.
• WLPA attend all public meetings.
• Keep up to date and inform our members about relevant issues.
• Encourage the creation of an historic district or other local regulatory tool.

Initiative	Budget	Schedule
WLPA Brochure
Historic Building Inventory
Write Articles
WLPA attend all Public Meetings
Walking Tours
Keep up to Date & Inform
Preservation Award
Preservation Month
Historic District

Now and In the Future

This the first blog. Our intent is to get information out to people who are interested in the fate of the historic train station on Main Street in Windsor Locks, Connecticut and the value of historic preservation in Windsor Locks.

We will be posting news on the train station acquisition process as well as strategic planning process we are conducting. Feedback is welcomed.

More soon.

-Wayne