The Preservation League of NYS has been helping communities retain, rehabilitate, and reuse threatened sites through its Seven to Save Endangered Sites Program since 1999. [Read more…] about Seven to Save Preservation Nominations Sought
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Effort Underway to Restore Historic Homeowner Rehabilitation Tax Credit Cuts
As of January 1, 2025, the New York State Historic Homeowner Rehabilitation Tax Credit was significantly reduced. The maximum credit dropped from $50,000 to $25,000 per project, and the program’s rebate option — a lifeline for homeowners without sufficient state tax liability — was allowed to expire.
To address this setback, legislation has been introduced in Albany to restore the credit to its full pre‑2025 value, but has not yet passed. [Read more…] about Effort Underway to Restore Historic Homeowner Rehabilitation Tax Credit Cuts
Historic Preservation Conference Deadline Extended, Young Professional Event Planned
The deadline for submissions to the 2026 NY Statewide Preservation Conference has been extended to 11:59 pm on Monday, December 15th. This year’s conference will be held April 15-17 at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown, NY.
This the only event of its kind in the state – a multi-day gathering for anyone involved in preservation and community revitalization. [Read more…] about Historic Preservation Conference Deadline Extended, Young Professional Event Planned
Preservation League Announces Award Winners
The Preservation League of New York State‘s annual Excellence in Historic Preservation Awards program shines a light on the people who are using historic preservation to create positive change — through exemplary restoration projects, indispensable publications, individual action, and organizational distinction.
Recipients of the Excellence Award represent the very best of what the League stands for and supports in historic preservation. [Read more…] about Preservation League Announces Award Winners
Preservation League of NYS Annual Excellence Awards Call for Nominations
The Preservation League of NYS has officially opened nominations for their 2025 Excellence in Historic Preservation Awards. The League’s annual Excellence Awards program shines a light on the people who are using historic preservation to make our world better — through exemplary restoration projects, indispensable publications, individual action, and organizational distinction. [Read more…] about Preservation League of NYS Annual Excellence Awards Call for Nominations
Church of the Mediator in The Bronx Threatened with Demolition
The Church of the Mediator is a conspicuous and distinguished building that rises to the top in any list of un-landmarked buildings of New York City.
When it was consecrated in 1927, Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning called it “the cathedral of the Bronx.” The church is now at imminent risk of demolition. [Read more…] about Church of the Mediator in The Bronx Threatened with Demolition
Six Historic Preservation Projects Get Much-Needed Private Funding
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
Harlem’s Historic Amsterdam News Building Faces Uncertain Future
The New York Amsterdam News was started more than a century ago and has continued to be one of the most important Black newspapers in the country.
Serving a Black audience since 1909, the newspaper has been in residence in their Harlem building, around the corner from the historic Apollo Theatre, since 1936. Their original signage remains intact on the building’s façade. [Read more…] about Harlem’s Historic Amsterdam News Building Faces Uncertain Future
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’
Historic Preservationists Seek Restoration of Buffalo’s Humboldt Parkway
Constructed at the height of Urban Renewal, Buffalo’s Kensington Expressway tore through neighborhoods and destroyed the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Humboldt Parkway.
The original Humboldt Parkway was part of a historic system of parks, parkways, and circles designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the late 1800s. [Read more…] about Historic Preservationists Seek Restoration of Buffalo’s Humboldt Parkway
Preservationists Rally Around Abandoned Wells College Campus
Wells College in Cayuga County, NY, founded in 1868 as a women’s college, was a historically significant institution that embodies the educational and architectural legacy of 19th-century liberal arts education.
Its campus features notable historic buildings and landscapes that contribute to its designation as part of the Aurora Village Historic District (established in 1980). [Read more…] about Preservationists Rally Around Abandoned Wells College Campus
Troy’s Historic River Street Buildings Threatened With Demolition
Troy, NY is defined by its urban architecture. The city’s well-preserved 19th-century streetscapes, featuring excellent examples of every major 18th, 19th, and 20th-century architectural style, are what make it both a destination and a home for businesses, arts, and culture.
Historic River Street was the birthplace of commerce in Troy, and the warehouses and commercial loft buildings which served sloops, steamboats and railroads and numerous retail businesses still line the western side of the two blocks between 1st Street and Congress Street. [Read more…] about Troy’s Historic River Street Buildings Threatened With Demolition
Under Threat: Silver Bay YMCA’s Rustic Hepbron Hall
The Silver Bay YMCA campus on Lake George is an important grouping of Adirondack vernacular resort structures situated in a spectacular natural setting. Hepbron Hall, formerly known as Forest Lodge, represents an architectural style that captures early Adirondack rustic construction.
It is one of 32 significant buildings on the campus, built by a succession of owners between 1880-1925 and reflecting regional architectural influences in terms of their rustic style design features, scale, and native construction materials. [Read more…] about Under Threat: Silver Bay YMCA’s Rustic Hepbron Hall
A Historic Preservation Workshop on Long Island
On April 17, 2025 from 9 am until 4 pm Preservation Long Island will host an historic preservation workshop with experts from the New York State Historic Preservation Office (State Parks) and the Preservation League of New York State. [Read more…] about A Historic Preservation Workshop on Long Island
Some 30 Organizations Join Opposition to Erasure of LGBTQ+ History
The Preservation League of NYS has drafted a statement decrying recent actions by the federal government to rewrite and censor LGBTQ+ history, notably by removing all mention of Transgender and Queer people from the Stonewall National Monument website.
Now nearly 30 historic preservation organizations from around New York State have joined their opposition. [Read more…] about Some 30 Organizations Join Opposition to Erasure of LGBTQ+ History
State Brownfield Cleanups Aid Housing, Preservation
In 2024, 61 brownfields were certified as cleaned-up sites by the New York State’s Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP).
Thirty-five of the 61 are planned for the creation of thousands of affordable housing units across New York City and the state, an announcement from DEC said. [Read more…] about State Brownfield Cleanups Aid Housing, Preservation
Preservation League Announces Virtual Winter Author Series
The Preservation League of NYS will welcome five authors as part of their ongoing Preservation Book Club program in early 2025. These virtual author talks will take place via Zoom and are free and open to the public. [Read more…] about Preservation League Announces Virtual Winter Author Series
2024 Excellence in Historic Preservation Award Winners
Now in its 40th year, the Preservation League of NYS‘s annual Excellence Awards program shines a light on the people who are using historic preservation to make all our lives better — through exemplary restoration projects, indispensable publications, individual action, and organizational distinction. [Read more…] about 2024 Excellence in Historic Preservation Award Winners
Seven to Save Endangered Sites Nominations Sought
The Preservation League of New York State has been helping New York State communities retain, rehabilitate, and reuse threatened sites through its Seven to Save Endangered Sites Program since 1999. Building on partnerships with groups and individuals, Seven to Save listing has been a key catalyst to the successful revival of dozens of buildings, downtowns, neighborhoods, and landscapes endangered by threats such as lack of regulatory protections, neglect, imminent demolition, and incompatible development. [Read more…] about Seven to Save Endangered Sites Nominations Sought
Research Underway to Document Millbrook’s Innisfree Garden
Innisfree Garden in Millbrook, Dutchess County, NY, is the recipient of a 2024 Preserve New York Grant from the Preservation League of NYS in the amount of $15,800 for work toward a Cultural Landscape Report that will document its unique landscape architecture. [Read more…] about Research Underway to Document Millbrook’s Innisfree Garden