The latest recipient of a grant through the League’s Donald Stephen Gratz Preservation Services Fund is the Kirkland Art Center in Oneida County.
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Thank you to all who signed Tug URGER's 120th birthday card earlier this summer. Perhaps URGER's best birthday present is that this week (September 20-24) Tug URGER is moving from her prior perch at the Waterford dry dock to the NYS Canal Corporation's Lysander Maintenance Shops in Onondaga County.
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The Parrott Hall Stabilization and Remediation Project is officially out to bid!
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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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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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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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The 2020 Technical Assistance Grant round awarded $96,644 to 26 projects in 18 counties, the largest TAG round in both number of projects and dollars distributed. The successful applicants each provide a twenty percent cash match toward the total cost of their projects. With the announcement of the 2020 awards, support provided by TAG since its launch in 2012 totals $471,021. These grants have directly advanced 155 historic preservation efforts.
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“…a small slice of masked normalcy for the holiday season.”
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The League is proud to help fund a Feasibility Reuse Study with a $9,500 grant from the Donald Stephen Gratz Preservation Services Fund. The Landmark Society of Western New York will contribute $3,500 toward the project cost as a match. The Feasibility Study, including Conditions and Adaptive Use Analysis, will guide future work and enable the Friends of Parrott Hall to prioritize repairs and assess potential new uses for the building.
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At its 2020 meeting, the Preserve New York grant panel selected 19 applicants in 15 counties to receive support totaling $193,390. Many of these grants will lead to historic district designation or expansion, allowing property owners to take advantage of the New York State and Federal Historic Tax Credits.
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Erin Tobin took a bike ride out to Rotterdam Junction and admired several iterations of the historic Erie Canal along the way.
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Projects in Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, and Madison Counties will get financial support thanks to our Northeast Heritage Economy Program, a collaborative grant program between the League, the Preservation Trust of Vermont, Maine Preservation, and the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance funded by the Regional Forest Economy Partnership initiative of the Northern Border Regional Commission.
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A sacred burial ground, a vulnerable lighthouse, a reimagined high school, a susceptible beachside enclave, an iconic canal system, a para-architectural installation, an imperiled research center; each site speaks to what makes our state special.
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The New York State Council on the Arts awarded the Preservation League $1,034,472 over a three-year period in support of our annual partnership grant programs, Preserve New York and Technical Assistance Grants.
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On January 26, 2020, the New York Times published an opinion piece accusing historic preservation of being “elite” and harming the fight against global warming, among other improper characterizations of the field.
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UTCA will use their Gratz grant to fund a feasibility study of their 1927 theatre building.
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The Parrott Hall Coalition is hard at work trying to save this Geneva landmark.
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The League has had a long history advocating for the Watervliet Shaker National Historic District — the site of America's first Shaker settlement. With continued investment and thoughtful preservation, this historic site can continue to have a big impact on the Albany region.
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Through more than $600,000 in grants, technical services, workshops, awards and our Industrial Heritage Reuse Project, the Preservation League has helped individuals, nonprofits and municipalities revitalize their canalside assets.
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The sixth annual grant from our Donald Stephen Gratz Preservation Services Fund was awarded to the City of Amsterdam for an analysis of the Mohasco Power House.
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