Project Information

Bid Title

Historic Cemeteries Gravestone and Monument Conservation Project

Issuing Agency

City of Northampton

Location

Massachusetts

Published Date

Dec 16, 2025

Closing Date

Jan 22, 2026

Government Level

State & Local

Status

Closed

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Project Description

Bid Title:	Historic Cemeteries Gravestone and Monument Conservation Project
Category:	All Departments
Status:	Open

Description: The City of Northampton, Massachusetts owns and maintains several historic cemeteries located in separate areas of the city, and two of the cemeteries, West Farms and Park Street, are the focus of this Invitation to Bid. West Farms Cemetery, laid out in 1788, accommodated the families of late 18th century settlers in the west part of the city. Park Street Cemetery, established in 1825, served the Village of Florence, a subsection of Northampton, located to the north and west. City crews have maintained the trees, paths, and lawns in both cemeteries, however many of the monuments and grave markers are tilted, have fallen, or are broken. In 2018, the city contracted with a professional conservator to begin the process of treating the most hazardous stones –17 at West Farms and 44 at Park Street. In 2026, the city intends to continue this effort by conserving the remaining at-risk (unstable) and tilted markers. In 2017, the city worked with a team of consultants to prepare a Preservation Master Plan for the two cemeteries. The planning process included thorough assessments of the cemeteries’ monuments and markers, identification of all the markers in need of repair and proposed treatments and priorities for conservation. The plan keyed the damaged markers to cemetery maps. As previously noted, the most hazardous stones (“Priority 1”) were conserved in 2018. Remaining to be treated are 82 at-risk (or “unstable”) markers (“Priority 2”) and 42 tilted markers (“Priority 3”) This project aims to conserve a total of 124 markers in the two cemeteries. Please see Section Two of the Invitation for Bid for precise methods for treating these markers appear in Section Two of this Invitation for Bids , and the condition assessments of each cemetery are included in the Preservation Master Plan. Publication Date/Time: 12/16/2025 12:00 AM Closing Date/Time: 1/22/2026 2:00 PM Related Documents: Northampton Cemeteries Conservation-IFB 2025.12.16

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• NAICS 236220Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
• NAICS 238990All Other Specialty Trade Contractors

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