The deadline to submit a nomination for the 2025-2026 Seven to Save list has passed.

The Preservation League has been helping New York State communities retain, rehabilitate, and reuse threatened sites through its Seven to Save Endangered Sites Program since 1999. Building on partnerships with groups and individuals, Seven to Save listing has been a key catalyst to the successful revival of dozens of buildings, downtowns, neighborhoods, and landscapes endangered by threats such as lack of regulatory protections, neglect, imminent demolition, and incompatible development.

This Call for Nominations will result in the listing of seven at-risk sites. Sites selected for the Seven to Save program will receive enhanced attention from the Preservation League’s experienced advocacy and technical assistance staff throughout 2025-2026.

We encourage nominations that reflect the Empire State’s diverse people and places. As New Yorkers prepare to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026, we encourage nominations of sites that reflect the state’s full history; its social, cultural, and economic diversity; and its extraordinary heritage of architecture and design, including all property and building types, from vernacular to high style.

The nomination deadline is Friday, November 8, 2024, 11:59 p.m. If you have questions, please contact Caitlin Meives.

We draw statewide attention to New York’s most important and at-risk historic places through our Biennial Seven to Save program.
Click here to see all of our previous Seven to Saves.

2024 marks the 25th Anniversary of the League’s Seven to Save program.
Click here for our Anniversary Retrospective.

    • Spotlight important endangered historic buildings, structures, landscapes, and communities.

    • Generate enthusiasm for the protection of listed sites.

    • Provide guidance, strategies, and tools to alleviate threats to listed sites.

    • Identify options for economically viable uses of listed sites.

    • Use listed sites to focus public attention on broader statewide preservation issues.

    • Demonstrate the economic and community-building benefits of historic preservation.

    • Statewide Publicity: Listed sites will benefit from media outreach and enhanced visibility through the League’s communication platforms.  

    • Local Publicity: Preservation League staff work with local advocates on a public announcement of the listing. The League will be available to local media for interviews and comments. By mutual agreement, the League will enhance the visibility of the threatened property and its selection as a Seven to Save site by working with the successful nominators to produce and display banners, signs, or other materials for use on-site, as appropriate. 

    • Educational: Listed sites will be given priority for the Preservation League’s educational outreach programs and materials.

    • Financial: Listed sites will receive priority consideration for applicable Preservation League funding programs. Funding generally available includes the League’s Preservation Opportunity Fund, Preserve New York, and Technical Assistance Grant Programs.

    • Historic places important to communities who are historically underrepresented within preservation, including, but not limited to, places associated with women, immigrants, Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, Black Americans, Latinx Americans, Native Americans, and LGBTQ+ communities.

    • Historic places directly threatened by the impacts of climate change.

    • Historic places that have a direct connection to the nation’s Semiquincentennial (250th anniversary) in 2026, including places that help tell the story of social change and the fight for civil rights, since the nation’s founding. 

    • The site must be in New York State.

    • The site must be culturally, historically, and/or architecturally significant (but need not be designated as a local landmark or listed on the State or National Registers of Historic Places).

    • The continued existence and integrity of the site must be seriously threatened.

    • There must be a strong local group with an identified leader/contact person advocating for the protection of the site, with the capacity to effectively partner with the League.

    • The Preservation League will be able to play a meaningful role through one or more of our existing programs, including technical services, public policy, grants, etc.

    • When possible, the nominated site will illustrate a broader regional, state and/or national preservation issue.

    • In selecting the sites for the 2025-2026 list, the Preservation League will consider diversity of historic and current cultural associations, geography, property/historic resource type, preservation issues, stakeholders, and audience.

All listings on the Preservation League of New York State’s Seven to Save Endangered Properties List are made at the discretion of the League’s Seven to Save Committee based on the information available to them at the time. Committee members are guided by the nomination criteria and the goals of the Program.