State Board Recommends 27 Nominations for State & NationalRegisters of Historic Places
ALBANY -- The New York State Board for Historic Preservation recommended the addition of 27properties and districts to the State and National Registers of Historic Places, including the nationallysignificant home of abolitionist James C. Beecher, the world's oldest pet cemetery, and a modern housingcommunity planned by architect Frank Lloyd Wright."These latest nominations are representative of New York's rich and diverse heritage," said Rose Harvey,Commissioner of the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. "The recognition and supportgiven to these landmarks helps highlight our past and preserve irreplaceable resources."Listing these properties on the State and National Registers can assist their owners in revitalizing thestructures, making them eligible for various public preservation programs and services, such as matchingstate grants and state and federal historic rehabilitation tax credits.The State and National Registers are the official lists of buildings, structures, districts, landscapes, objectsand sites significant in the history, architecture, archeology and culture of New York State and the nation.There are 90,000 historic buildings, structures and sites throughout the state listed on the National Register of Historic Places, individually or as components of historic districts. Property owners, municipalities andorganizations from communities throughout the state sponsored the nominations.Once the recommendations are approved by the state historic preservation officer, the properties are listedon the New York State Register of Historic Places and then nominated to the National Register of HistoricPlaces, where they are reviewed and, once approved, entered on the National Register.
STATE REVIEW BOARD RECOMMENDATIONS
Broome County
Ansco Company Charles Street Factory Buildings, Binghamton
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the factory building, power house (1910-11) and warehouse (1953-54) are the only remaining industrial buildings associated with the camera andfilm company's Charles Street complex, the site of one of Binghamton's largest and most importantindustries.The General Cigar Company Building, Binghamton
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the exceptionally intact 1927 building is associatedwith two of Binghamton's most important industries, the city's thriving cigar manufacturing industry of thelate 19th and early 20th centuries and, later, the nationally prominent Ansco camera and film company.
Cattaraugus County
Randolph Historic District, Randolph
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the district is the core of an early 19th century community thatgrew into a successful and prosperous village based on its initial profitable lumber industry and access towater transportation, followed by its proximity to the railroad, which attracted other industries.
Clinton County
Pike's Cantonment, Plattsburgh
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is the only known surviving portion of Col. Zebulon Pike's winter encampment of November 1812-March 1813. During the War of 1812, U.S. troops under Pike encampedhere after an unsuccessful attempt to invade Canada and endured severe winter conditions before their spring invasion and subsequent burning of York (Toronto), Ontario. The nominated site has survived witha remarkable level of integrity for over two hundred years despite being surrounded by intensivedevelopment.
Columbia County
North Chatham Historic District, North Chatham
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the remarkably intact rural hamlet largely composed of mid- 19th century homes, churches, farms and agricultural and industrial buildings developed along theChatham & Hillsdale Turnpike, an important overland transportation route which linked North Chathamto outlying areas.
Essex County
Putnam Camp, St. Hubert's
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the extremely well-preserved Adirondack summer retreat has maintained itsoriginal character since its establishment in the mid-1870s by a group of Boston intellectuals as a 19th-century wilderness destination for distinguished artists, scholars and writers.Talichito, Schoon Lake
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built in the late 1910s for a prominent executive of the Buffalo General ElectricCompany and largely unaltered since its completion, the camp is purposefully difficult to access in asecluded location away from the bustling resort village to capitalize on the remarkable Adirondack setting.
Herkimer County
Big Moose Community Chapel, Eagle Bay
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a distinctive and exceptionally intact example of religiousarchitecture and the work of an Adirondack master builder Earl Covey, the 1931 church exhibits a freeblending of Gothic-inspired forms combined with the local Adirondack style.
Jefferson County
Grindstone Island Schoolhouse, Clayton
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constructed in 1885, the remarkably intact school buildingserved the residents of Grindstone Island until 1989, making it one of the last operating one-room schoolsin New York State.
Kings County
Mary A. Whelan
, Red Hook
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built in 1938, the tanker delivered gasoline to coastal terminals up and downthe east coast and, later, home heating fuel and other fuels to terminals in the Gowanus Canal and other restricted waterways in the New York metropolitan area; it's a rare and exceptionally intact example of atanker from this period that illustrates the transition from riveted to welded construction.
Loew's Kings Theater, Brooklyn
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completed in 1929 at the height of the movie palace boom, the FlatbushAvenue theater was one of the five "Wonder Theaters" built in the New York City area by Loew's Inc., oneof the nation's largest theater chains, to attract audiences through lavish surroundings.
Monroe County
Holy Rosary Church, Rochester
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the 1916 church is an example of Spanish Eclectic inspired Arts andCrafts style, which reflects the intention of Father Arthur Hughes, the parish priest, to create a Missionstyle church for the parish.
Montgomery County
Fort Plain Historic District, Fort Plain
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located at the outlet of the Otsquago Creek at the Mohawk River,the crossroads location helped Fort Plain to thrive as a commercial center, which is reflected in its growthand development, notably, the 19th century commercial streetscape paralleling the creek and the former Erie Canal.
Onondaga County
St. Patrick's Church Complex, Syracuse
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the church was constructed in 1872 and the complex grewthrough the 1920s to serve the large Irish immigrant population of Tipperary Hill; it was the first Syracuseparish developed to serve this group and includes an exceptional complex of religious buildings.
Otsego County
The White House, Hartwick
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built ca.1792 by Major James Butterfield, a Revolutionary War veteran, theoriginal house, a small square building, was nearly tripled in size in the same decade and remodeled in theColonial Revival style in the early 20th century.
Queens County
St. Mathias Roman Catholic Church Complex, Queens
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the early 20th Italian Renaissance Revival-stylechurch, rectory, school, and convent represent the work of prominent local architect F. J. Berlenbach andis notable for the church's highly decorated interior.
Rensselaer County
Van Rensselaer High School, Rensselaer
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built in 1930-31, the distinctive Art Deco-inspired educationalbuilding served as a public school for City of Rensselaer until 2007 and today is home to the private DoaneStuart School.Brownell Farm, Pittstown
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the farm includes a house with large attached woodshed (ca.1800-25;remodeled early 1900s); a threshing barn (ca.1800); a tool barn/grain house (ca.1830); a hen house andassociated feed shed (1936); a frame garage (1926); and a wagon shed (1940s) which survive in an intactrural setting.
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