After a few months, progress stopped when a large crack developed on the north wall and the building sank by about 4 inches (100 mm).

The BCA Center presents exhibitions, and high-quality artwork, as well as exhibition-related discussions, and arts activities.

Their exhibitions and education programming attempt to build and sustain audiences for contemporary art outside of major urban centers.

[5] In 2001, BCA Center learned that the Shelburne Museum hoped to give the original bell back to the Firehouse tower.

Ravaged by years of water, damage, a re-engineering and renovation of the tower as well as a concentrated fundraising effort took place.