Five-Mile Visual Ape Architectural Resource Survey
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FIVE-MILE VISUAL APE ARCHITECTURAL RESOURCE SURVEY Northeast Branch FOR THE PROPOSED DEER RIVER WIND FARM, 2390 Clinton Street Buffalo, NY 14227 Tel: (716) 821-1650 TOWNS OF PINCKNEY, HARRISBURG, AND Fax: (716) 821-1607 Southeast Branch 2301 Paul Bryant Drive MONTAGUE, LEWIS COUNTY, NEW YORK Tuscaloosa, AL 35401 Tel: (205) 556-3096 Fax: (205) 556-1144 NEW YORK STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE Mid-South Branch 91 Tillman Street #17PR05791 Memphis, TN 38111 Tel: (901) 454-4733 Fax: (901) 454-4736 Corporate Headquarters P.O. Box 20884 Tuscaloosa, AL 35402 Prepared for: Tel: (205) 248-8767 Fax: (205) 248-8739 STANTEC 30 Park Drive Topsham, Maine 04086 Prepared by: PANAMERICAN CONSULTANTS, INC. Buffalo Branch Office 2390 Clinton Street Buffalo, NY 14227 (716) 821-1650 December 2018 FIVE-MILE VISUAL APE ARCHITECTURAL RESOURCE SURVEY FOR THE PROPOSED DEER RIVER WIND FARM, TOWNS OF PINCKNEY, HARRISBURG, AND MONTAGUE, LEWIS COUNTY, NEW YORK New York State Historic Preservation Office #17PR05791 Prepared for: STANTEC 30 Park Drive Topsham, Maine 04086 Prepared by: Christine M. Longiaru, M.A., Senior Architectural Historian/Principal Investigator Mark A. Steinback, M.A., Senior Historian Michael A. Cinquino, Ph.D., RPA, Project Director PANAMERICAN CONSULTANTS, INC. Buffalo Branch Office 2390 Clinton Street Buffalo, New York 14227 (716) 821-1650 December 2018 Management Summary SHPO Project Review Number: #17PR05791 Involved Federal and State Agencies: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Public Service Commission Phase of Survey: Five-mile Visual APE Architectural Resource Survey Project Location Information: Location: Lewis County / Jefferson County Minor Civil Division: Towns of Harrisburg (MCD 04905), Montague (MCD 04912), Pinckney (MCD 04915) / Town of Rodman (MCD 04517) Five-Mile Visual APE Study Area Location Information: Location: Lewis County Minor Civil Division: Towns of Denmark (MCD 04902), Harrisburg (MCD 04905), Montague (MCD 04912), Pinckney (MCD 04915), and Village of Copenhagen (MCD 04943) Location: Jefferson County Minor Civil Division: Towns of Champion (MCD 04506), Rodman (MCD 04517), Rutland (MCD 04518), Watertown (MCD 04520), and Worth (MCD 04522) Number of Proposed Turbines: 25 USGS 7.5-Minute Quadrangle Maps (all New York): Barnes Corners (1959), Carthage (1943), Copenhagen (1942), New Boston, (1943), Page (1943), Rodman (1959), Rutland Center (1959), Sears Pond (1943), Watertown (1959), West Lowville (1943), Worth Center (1960) Survey Area (Metric & English): approximately +198.44 sq. miles Results of Historic Resources Identified in 5-mile Visual APE Study Area (See Tables 4.1) Number of S/NRHP-Listed resources: 1 Number of S/NRHP-Eligible (Individual) resources: 20 (Note, six other S/NRHP-eligible resources in study area but not in Visual APE). Number of recommended State/National Register Eligible (Individual) resources: 12 Number of Historic Districts with an “Undetermined” S/NRHP eligibility status: 2 Number resources recommended with an “Undetermined” S/NRHP eligibility status: 9 Report Author(s): C.M. Longiaru, M.A. Steinback, D.A. Smith Date of Report: December 2018 Panamerican Consultants, Inc. ii Deer River Wind Farm 5-Mile Visual APE Table of Contents Management Summary .................................................................................................................................. ii List of Figures and Tables ............................................................................................................................. iv 1.0 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 1-1 1.1 Project Description ................................................................................................................. 1-1 2.0 Context and Background Research ................................................................................................. 2-1 2.1 Historic Period ........................................................................................................................ 2-1 2.2 Historical Maps ....................................................................................................................... 2-8 3.0 Methodology ..................................................................................................................................... 3-1 3.1 National Register Criteria ....................................................................................................... 3-1 3.2 Assessment of Adverse Effects to Historic Properties ........................................................... 3-1 3.3 Project Consultation ............................................................................................................... 3-3 3.4 Previous Historic Architectural Resources Surveys in the Study Area .................................. 3-3 3.5 Surveys Methods .................................................................................................................... 3-3 4.0 Historic Resources Survey Results .................................................................................................. 4-1 4.1 Jefferson County Municipalities .............................................................................................. 4-1 Town of Champion (MCD 04506) ........................................................................................... 4-1 Town of Rodman (MCD 04517).............................................................................................. 4-1 Town of Rutland (MCD 04518) ............................................................................................... 4-2 Town of Watertown (MCD 04520) .......................................................................................... 4-2 Town of Worth (MCD 04522) .................................................................................................. 4-2 4.2 Lewis County Municipalities ................................................................................................... 4-2 Town of Denmark (MCD 04902)............................................................................................. 4-2 Town of Harrisburg (MCD 04905) .......................................................................................... 4-2 Town of Montague (MCD 04912) ........................................................................................... 4-2 Town of Pinckney (MCD 04915) ............................................................................................. 4-3 Village of Copenhagen (MCD 04943) .................................................................................... 4-3 5.0 Visual Impacts to Architectural Resources ....................................................................................... 5-1 6.0 Mitigation of Visual Impacts .............................................................................................................. 6-1 7.0 References ....................................................................................................................................... 7-1 Appendix A: Locations of Architectural Resources within Five Miles of Project Location (Project map) Appendix B: Annotated List of Architectural Resources in Deer River Five--mile Visual APE Panamerican Consultants, Inc. iii Deer River Wind Farm 5-Mile Visual APE List of Figures and Tables FIGURE PAGE 1.1 General visual APE study area in the Towns of Pinckney, Harrisburg, and Montague, Lewis County, and the Town of Rodman, Jefferson County, New York .................................................... 1-2 1.2 General boundary of the five-mile visual APE study area in Lewis and Jefferson counties, as well as the general locations of previously investigated wind-power projects in proximity to the current project .................................................................................................................................. 1-3 2.1 Approximate location of the project area (red oval) as shown with Northern New York land purchases prior to 1800 .................................................................................................................... 2-2 2.2a The approximate location of the project area (between red lines) in the Town of Pinckney in 1875 .................................................................................................................................................. 2-9 2.2b The approximate location of the project area (to the left of the red line) in the Town of Harrisburg in 1875 .......................................................................................................................... 2-10 2.2c The approximate location of the project area (in red) in the Town of Montague in 1875 .............. 2-11 2.3 The approximate location of the project area (to the right of the red line) in the Town of Rodman in 1864 ............................................................................................................................. 2-11 2.4 The approximate location of the project area (to the right of the red line) in the Town of Rodman in 1888 ............................................................................................................................. 2-12 2.5 The approximate location of the project area in Lewis and Jefferson counties in the early 1900s .............................................................................................................................................