PRESERVATION WORKS IN NEW YORK
New York State Historic Preservation Office NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation SHPO PROGRAMS & SERVICES • Historic Resource Surveys • State and National Registers of Historic Places • Certified Local Government • Historic Preservation Environmental Review • State and Federal Tax Incentives • State Historic Preservation Grants
Fort Ontario, Oswego Chemung County Courthouse Complex Rose Hill, Geneva Little Falls Village Historic District Lindesay Patent Historic District, Cherry Valley Houses on Hunterfly Road, Brooklyn— now the Weeksville Heritage Center Former Central Trust Building, Rochester—redeveloped for apartments using the preservation tax credits Eldridge Street Synagogue, Lower East Side, Manhattan Internationally recognized symbol of American way of life Lever House Building Whitney Museum of American Art Seagram Building Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Trans World Airlines Flight Center, JFK Town and County Building, Liberty, 1952 New York State Pavilion – 1964 World’s Fair, Queens Bishop Family Lustron House, Glenmont New York City Subway System Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run, Lake Placid Bush Auditorium, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor The Sloop Clearwater Woodstock Festival Site, Bethel Motor Launch Forward, Lake George Hook Mountain Schooner, Hudson River, Rockland County Parachute Jump, Coney Island Cyclone Roller Coaster, Coney Island Forest Park Carousel, Queens Rye Playland, Westchester County Midway State Park, Lake Chautauqua Edward Stanley Recreation Center, Clinton Halfway Diner, Red Hook Walter’s Hot Dog Stand, Mamaroneck The Big Duck, Suffolk County The Tepee, Route 20, Cherry Valley Whiteface Veterans Memorial Highway, Essex County Taconic State Parkway, Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester Counties Olmsted Parks and Parkways System, Buffalo Jones Beach State Park, Causeway and Parkway System, Long Island Opus 40, Saugerties Sunday Rock, St. Lawrence County Canisteo Living Sign, Steuben County Marion Steam Shovel, LeRoy Swart-Wilcox House, Oneonta 218 Dearborn Street, Buffalo Hopkinton Town Green, St. Lawrence County Mohawk Valley Grange, Niskayuna Forestburgh Town Hall, Sullivan County Orchard Street Tenement, Lower East Side, Manhattan Astral Apartments, Brooklyn City and Suburban Homes Company’s York Street Estate Historic District, Manhattan United Workers Cooperatives, Bronx First Houses, Manhattan Anshe Glen Wild Synagogue, Sullivan County Rivoli Theater, South Fallsburg Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue, Manhattan Garment District, Manhattan Lower East Side Historic District, Manhattan Jewish Community Center of Norwich, Chenango County
Orson Ames House, Oswego People’s AME Zion Church, Syracuse Stony Hill African American Cemetery, Westchester County Tobias Ten Eyck Cemetery, Albany County Sannick Family Farm, Chenango County John Jones House, Elmira Rev. Edward J. Nash House, Buffalo Rapp Road Historic District, Albany County Rapp Road Historic District, Albany County Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church, Troy Remains of Italian Community Bake Oven, Little Falls Casa Amadeo, Bronx Stonewall, Manhattan Cherry Grove Community House & Theatre, Fire Island, Est. 1946 Cuyler Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn Lower Niagara River Spear Fishing Docks Historic District, Niagara County Grotto of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Staten Island Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden, Queens Casitas—cultural gathering places for Puerto Ricans in New York City Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville From 2011 to 2012, the SHPO listed 1,900 buildings in western New York on the registers to qualify them for the homeowner tax credit
Chilton Avenue-Orchard Parkway Historic District, Niagara Falls Preservation tax credits will be used to redevelop the mid-20th century Tishman Building in Buffalo Clarksville School, Albany County Levittown, Long Island
Hill Cumorah (Mormon Hill) Manchester, Ontario County
Asbury-Delaware Methodist Church in Buffalo was threatened with demolition Tax credits helped convert the church into a record company headquarters with office, performance and gallery spaces Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs was transformed into an events venue and still houses a small worship space Former St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Buffalo, once threatened with demolition, serves as a neighborhood education center North Park Baptist Church in Buffalo was denied tax credits for apartment redevelopment and was later damaged by fire and demolished Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Buffalo Apartments will be created in part of the complex while the sanctuary will remain a house of workshop and important social services will be retained on site The 7th Regiment Armory has been transformed into one of New York City’s premier event venues Former Masonic Temple, Bath—its apartment conversion was denied the tax credit In 2011-12, the SHPO assisted 54 tax credit applications totaling $1 billion in private rehabilitation projects
Empire State Building, a $550 million tax credit project that included a major energy efficiency retrofit The SHPO assisted 25 tax credit projects in western New York, 18 of which were in Buffalo, creating: . 1,700 construction jobs . Over 400 new jobs . 1,100 jobs retained . $348 million invested . 1.7 million square feet of rehabilitated space
Tax credits helped update the Guaranty Building in Buffalo State historic rehabilitation tax credit programs offer owners of properties that are located in distressed census tracts and qualify for the federal tax credit a state income tax credit equal to 20% of the approved rehabilitation costs up to $5 million in credits Owner-occupied residential properties that are listed on the registers and located in distressed census tracts are eligible for a state tax credit equal to 20% of qualified rehabilitation costs up to $50,000 in credits
Harmony Mills, a $26.4 million tax credit project in Cohoes that converted an abandoned factory into apartments Since 2010, the SHPO has received over 800 applications for a total of over $20 million in homeowner tax credit projects
such as, 19 Garfield Place, Poughkeepsie Prattsville in ruins after Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee New York City’s coastal communities following Super Storm Sandy The flood in Prattsville following Irene and Lee The flood-damaged Laraway Inn in Prattsville was repaired with the help of the homeowner tax credits Guy Park State Historic Site (near Amsterdam) after Irene and Lee Jones Beach State Park’s famous boardwalk after Super Storm Sandy Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn following Super Storm Sandy One of the houses that was elevated after Hurricane Katrina The old and new Lake Champlain Bridge Wind farm in Fenner, NY The redevelopment of the former Alling and Cory warehouse in Buffalo incorporated energy saving features, such as state-of-the-art systems and a reflective roof