Rocky Ridge Music Center Foundation

Preservation of our historic facility.preservation and modernization of our historical campus is an ongoing effort and part of our board's focus. Our facility was homesteaded and constructed as an inn in the early 1900s, occupied by rocky ridge since 1951, and was declared a national historic district in the early 1990s. The rustic historic feel is integral to the intimate, personal nature of our music education experience. Nature and community are part of our mission statement and the small student body and the close communal living in rustic cabins reinforce the mutual support the students feel for each other's accomplishments. Thus, it is imperative that we preserve the historic nature of our facility while carefully modernizing it to meet current safety codes and student expectations. By modernizing our campus, our goal is to keep the accommodations comfortable for today's students' expectations - both adult and youth - so that our program and the facility continue and prosper. It has also been necessary to bring the facility up to current safety codes which we have accomplished. We are careful to keep the historic aesthetic of our campus in these modernizations. We began modernization in the early 1990s when the owner/founder turned the organization over to a volunteer irs sec 501(c)(3) board. Grants from the state historical fund (shf) were crucial in getting the process started by addressing the two major buildings at the heart of the campus. Later shf grants helped restore 3 cabins. It has been a long process to catch up, and then match, the standards of modern codes and student expectations, and it is ongoing. For example in 2018 and 2019 we replaced the second of three septic systems, winterized one cabin for year-round living for seasonal staff, and installed the water/sewage infrastrucure and added a bathroom to a cabin. We are now replacing our water filtration system that processes surface water for our camp.

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