I Nstead of celebrating its 40th anniversary, the New Hampshire Snowmobile Museum has found itself homeless.

The building the nonprofit museum occupies in Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown is structurally compromised and the state says it cannot be saved. It is set to be razed. Signs on the outside note the building is closed until further notice, while planks and concrete blocks shore up a wall that is visibly bowing out.

The basic wooden building that has housed the museum’s collection since 1985 was built in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, a program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to put men to work during the Great Depression. The building is part of the original CCC work camp, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.

“It’s been a great buil

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