Habitat dedicates its 60th home

DateSeptember 29, 2008 | Filed Under Habitat News 

Friends, neighbors, Habitat staff, Board members and volunteers celebrated the dedication of 18 Shepard Street, New Haven, with Habitat’s newest homeowner Tonya Sherman and her family on Sunday, September 14. The house, which dates to 1900, was sponsored by the Habitat sponsor group Madison Cares (click here to visit their website). Habitat acquired the property from the City of New Haven.

The Shepard Street project was the fourth home sponsored by Madison Cares. MC’s supporters contributed generously and provided volunteers who helped rehab the once derelict property. Sponsors for 18 Shepard Street are: ACT II Thrift Shop; Christ Chapel, Madison; First Congregational Church of Madison; Kevin and Tina Garrity; Madison Rotary Foundation, Inc.; North Madison Congregational Church; St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church; Temple Beth Tikvah; The Madison Foundation; United Illuminating Company; and Peter Indorf Jewelers.

Madison Cares is gearing up to begin work on a new Habitat home on Wilson Street in New Haven. Build V is scheduled to get underway in October.

See the four photos below for 18 Shepard Street’s amazing transformation!

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18 Shepard Street (before)

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June 2008

June 2008
August 2008

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September 2008