May is National Preservation Month, and following the National Trust's lead, we'll also be celebrating "People Saving Places" to mark the occasion!
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The yellow house at the intersection of 9H and NY-66 in the Town of Claverack has stood as a local landmark for over 200 years. When Quinn Levine and Simon Burstall first saw the building in 2020, it had been vacant and on the market for more than six years. The land was thought to be more valuable without the house, and potential buyers wanted to demolish it. Thankfully, the former owner wanted to see the house saved — and Quinn and Simon saw possibility where others saw a liability.
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Have former asylum properties, built in the late 19th century to house people with mental illness, outlived their usefulness? Or can they once again contribute to modern society? In selecting the former Willard Asylum property for the 2022-2023 Seven to Save list, the League chose optimism. We’ve now researched a number of other asylum reuse projects in which properties very similar to Willard have charted a path toward productive and beneficial reuse, and have begun sharing this information with community members and decision-makers.
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The 2022-2023 inclusion of the Proposed South of Union Square Historic District on the League’s Seven to Save list marks the third time the League has worked with our colleagues at Village Preservation through the STS program. First in 2002 with the Gansevoort Market District and then in 2012 with South Village, the League’s support helped turn the tide for both in securing their much-deserved landmark designations.
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A look at the recently restored Arthur’s 1795 in Schenectady, a neighborhood coffee shop and market with deep roots in the community.
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A 19,000 square-foot schoolhouse with Catskill Mountain and Hudson River views sat vacant and neglected for decades in the city of Hudson, NY. Built in 1903, it functioned as an elementary school until the 1960s, before a short-lived stint as a textile assembly site. Now, after years of meticulous restoration, it has been transformed into an anchor for the creative community.
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Built in 1903, this Adirondack Great Camp is undergoing a major revitalization.
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Bethel Woods Center for the Arts was a Preserve New York grantee in 2013. The Historic Landscape Report the grant funded resulted in an amazing transformation for this historic site.
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A Cultural Landscape Report informs the administrators at Vale Cemetery Association (a Preserve New York grantee) on cemetery preservation — including in their successful restoration of the African American Ancestral Burying Ground.
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The New York projects were two of only six national awards presented at the reception.
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