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
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City of Jamestown Updating Cultural Resource Survey To Expand Black History
The City of Jamestown in Chautauqua County, NY is the recipient of a 2024 Preserve New York Grant from the Preservation League of NYS in the amount of $20,000 to update the Jamestown’s existing cultural resource survey (CRS) to help guide future historic preservation efforts. [Read more…] about City of Jamestown Updating Cultural Resource Survey To Expand Black History
Historic District Proposed for Stuyvesant Landing in Columbia County
The Stuyvesant Landing Historic District committee in Columbia County, NY is the recipient of a 2024 Preserve New York Grant from the Preservation League of NYS in the amount of $8,000 for work toward recognition as a registered Historic District. [Read more…] about Historic District Proposed for Stuyvesant Landing in Columbia County
Buffalo’s Last Erie Canal-Era Streetscape Gets Preservation Grant
The Black Rock Historical Society in Erie County, NY is the recipient of a 2024 Preserve New York Grant from the Preservation League of NYS in the amount of $7,568 for work toward documenting the preservation in the city’s Lower Black Rock Historic District, believed to be the only remaining Erie Canal-era streetscape in Buffalo. [Read more…] about Buffalo’s Last Erie Canal-Era Streetscape Gets Preservation Grant
Preservation Work Underway at Nash House Museum in Buffalo
The Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission in Buffalo, Erie County, NY is the recipient of a 2024 Preserve New York Grant from the Preservation League of NYS in the amount of $14,000 for work toward preserving the Nash House Museum. The Museum was once the home of Rev. Edward Nash, the longest-serving pastor of the Black community’s Michigan Street Baptist Church. [Read more…] about Preservation Work Underway at Nash House Museum in Buffalo
Pine Hollow Arboretum Hopes For National Register Historic District
The Pine Hollow Arboretum is the recipient of a 2024 Preserve New York Grant from the Preservation League of NYS in the amount of $5,168. Dr. John W. Abbuhl began planting trees around his home in 1966. His affinity for the land, interest in horticulture, and love of trees combined to inspire the creation of Pine Hollow Arboretum. [Read more…] about Pine Hollow Arboretum Hopes For National Register Historic District
Silver Bay’s Historic Fisher Gymnasium Rehabilitation Project Moving Forward
Silver Bay YMCA is one of this year’s Preserve New York (PNY) grantees. Their grant of $11,200 will fund a facility condition assessment of the historic Fisher Gymnasium. [Read more…] about Silver Bay’s Historic Fisher Gymnasium Rehabilitation Project Moving Forward
Westport’s Railroad Depot Theatre Getting Preservation Attention
The Depot Theatre in Westport has been awarded a Preserve New York grant of $4,712 to complete a condition analysis of the 1876 train station in which the theatre resides.
The Depot Theatre is a nonprofit, professional theatre located in a historic, functioning 1876 train station owned by the Town of Westport, and it is the only theatre in New York’s Adirondack Park that operates under an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. The theatre is also the caretaker of the station on behalf of Amtrak. [Read more…] about Westport’s Railroad Depot Theatre Getting Preservation Attention
Grant Will Support Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse Preservation
The Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse was initially constructed in 1850 at the intersection of Route 9H and Fisher Road as the District #6 Schoolhouse for the town of Kinderhook.
Although the structure was moved just 200 yards from its original location in 1974, it remains an excellent and intact example of a rural, one-room schoolhouse with a gable roof, clapboard siding, and a single pent-roofed entrance. [Read more…] about Grant Will Support Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse Preservation
Historic Preservation Grants Available
2018 Preserve New York grant applications are now available to not-for-profits and municipalities seeking to complete building condition reports, historic structure reports, cultural landscape reports, or cultural resource surveys. [Read more…] about Historic Preservation Grants Available
Southern Tier: Free Preservation Grant Info Sessions
Not-for-profit groups and municipalities have been invited to attend one of three free information session on Preserve New York and Technical Assistance Grants (TAG), the signature grant programs of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and the Preservation League. At each meeting, Erin Tobin, the League’s Director of Preservation, will explain the requirements of the grants, the process of applying, and discuss some successful previous applicants. [Read more…] about Southern Tier: Free Preservation Grant Info Sessions