Andover Community Trust’s first permanently affordable home
Haverhill Street

Haverhill Street home     Andover Community Trust Executive Director, Susan Stott, with Greater Lawrence Technical School carpentry instructor and construction coordinator, Bill Berard, giving the key to Andover Community Trust’s first permanently affordable home to new owner, Mercedes Duran. The students from the Greater Lawrence Technical School built this home under the supervision of their instructors in 2001.

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The land for the Haverhill St. home was donated by Bill Perkins, a local developer. The lot complied with Andover Zoning so the home required only a building permit and a utility connection permit for Town approval. The Town of Andover waived the building and utility connection fees to help keep the price of the home as low as possible. Spencer Johnson, a retired architect on the Andover Community Trust board of directors, designed the house and the students from the Greater Lawrence Technical School built the home in 2000-2001, under the supervision of Bill Berard, the construction coordinator at the school. The owner of the apartments next door was very helpful, even allowing the school to connect temporarily to his electricity and water. Andover Community Trust’s first homeowner, a single mother of three school age children at the time she purchased the home, continues to live in the Haverhill St. home and says she plans to stay forever.