Six capital projects will receive funding from The Preservation League of NYS’s Preservation Opportunity Fund, which provides funding for urgent historic preservation projects. The creation of the Preservation Opportunity Fund in 2024 allows the League to have an immediate impact on historic sites in need of maintenance and repair. [Read more…] about Six Historic Preservation Projects Get Much-Needed Private Funding
Cathedral of All Saints
Preservationists Hope To Revive Albany Settlement House ‘Guild Hall’
Situated behind Albany’s neo-gothic Cathedral of All Saints (the central church of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany and the seat of the Episcopal Bishop of Albany) is the similarly styled Guild House.
Built in 1902 as an immigrant settlement house and school, it has fallen into disrepair over the years and now is in dire need of rehabilitation to bring it back to its former glory – and return it to providing space for much-needed social services. [Read more…] about Preservationists Hope To Revive Albany Settlement House ‘Guild Hall’
Albany’s Unique Architecture: H.H. Richardson
Any visitor to Albany has to consider the unique architecture styles that define the city. New York Almanack had the recent opportunity to talk with Andrew Alberti, the program manager for Lakes to Locks Passage, about Albany’s architecture.
Alberti studied the history of Albany’s architecture when he was a Masters student at the University at Albany’s public history program. [Read more…] about Albany’s Unique Architecture: H.H. Richardson
New Reference Book: Architects in Albany
Architects in Albany, published by Historic Albany Foundation and Mount Ida Press in 2010, is a collection of profiles and images of the work of 36 designers and their firms that played a major part in forming Albany‘s architectural heritage. [Read more…] about New Reference Book: Architects in Albany