Miki Conn reads her book The Story of House, followed by a kid's activity inspired by the story led by the Historic Albany Foundation.
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Over the course of two days, trainers Ramona Bartos, Friedericke Mittner, and Abbey Christman took us on a jam-packed seven hours of training on legal fundamentals, design review guidelines, alternative materials, procedures and commissioner roles, infill design, and mid-century resources.
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A few recent webinars exploring one of our favorite topics — Historic Tax Credits. Each of these webinars focus on a slightly different aspect of Historic Tax Credits, but they all touch on the broader positive impact this program, and historic preservation more generally, has on community revitalization.
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If you have historic windows in your home, you might be tempted to replace them – but might we suggest rehabbing them instead?
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Scenic Hudson received a 2020 NYSCA-funded Preserve New York grant to fund a Cultural Resource Survey of 12 historic steel truss bridges that were built to provide access to the Hudson River over the Hudson River line railroad tracks. With their Survey recently completed, we reached out to Scenic Hudson’s Director of Land Use Advocacy Jeffrey Anzevino to see if he would be interested in sharing a bit about this exciting project.
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Although we missed our traditional Capitol Hill visits in DC this year, hundreds of historic preservation supporters from around the country convened virtually to advocate for preservation with their state Congressional Representatives.
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A few places to explore women’s history in New York in honor of International Women’s Day.
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Roberta Brandes Gratz is a noted urbanist and journalist, as well as a longtime Preservation League Trustee. Her newest book, It’s a Helluva Town: Joan K. Davidson, the J. M. Kaplan Fund, and the Fight for a Better New York, explores the profound impact of Joan K. Davidson and her work through her family fund.
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While we’ve been reading Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration as our February Preservation Book Club pick, we wanted to dive into the topic of the Great Migration and its effect on New York. On Tuesday, February 23, we welcomed historians Dr. Carla DuBose-Simons and Dr. Jennifer Lemak and members of the Rapp Road Historical Association Beverly Bardequez and Stephanie Woodard to share their expertise.
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While we wish we could have joined our supporters in person to attend meetings in the Capitol and Legislative Office Building in downtown Albany, we successfully transformed our advocacy to a virtual Zoom event. Our attendees included familiar faces as well as some new advocates from across New York State who were eager to convey to legislative leadership the importance of preservation in their communities.
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As one of the League’s first events of 2021, our Excelsior Society was honored to welcome A’Lelia Bundles and Julie Seely to speak about their work in sharing the stories of their families and preserving their historic family homes.
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As part of our Sparking Recovery Through Preservation webinar series, we welcomed Katie Comeau from Bero Architecture to talk about National Register Districts — what they are, and what their benefit is.
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Historian and documentation photographer Bruce Harvey joined us during a recent site visit to Syracuse Central Tech to take a few photos inside this long-vacant local landmark.
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“I have spent my career thinking about and working toward making sure the nonprofit historic preservation sector is sustainable over time. Naming the League in my estate plans was a natural outgrowth of that.“
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On Thursday, February 11, we welcomed Diana S. Waite to share some highlights about her book The Architecture of Downtown Troy: An Illustrated History.
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On January 11, 2021, after many years of advocacy from the Southampton and greater Long Island preservation community, the Pyrrhus Concer Homestead became a Landmark in the Village and Town of Southampton.
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Earlier this month, our Southern Tier Field Consultant Janna Rudler donned her mask and made the trip to Syracuse to get a look inside the Seven to Save-listed Central Technical High School.
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In perhaps the first virtual northeastern regional preservation event, New Hampshire reached out to fellow northeast statewide organizations and the National Barn Alliance to partner. The National Barn Alliance, Maine Preservation, Preservation Connecticut, Preservation League of New York State, Preservation Massachusetts, Preservation Pennsylvania, Preserve Rhode Island and Preservation Trust of Vermont all joined the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance and over 240 participants for an afternoon of barn discussion and fiddling!
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On January 25, our Southern Tier Field Consultant Janna Rudler hosted a webinar with Cindy Falk from the Cooperstown Graduate Program all about how to piece together the history of an old house.
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Historic preservation is woven throughout Governor Cuomo’s proposed FY 2022 New York State Budget. We appreciate his continued support of the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation and the New York State Council on the Arts, as well as his leadership during these challenging times.
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