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    Landmarks Calendars Hamilton Grange for Landmark Designation Amendment

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Landmark Designation Amendment  •  Hamilton Heights, Manhattan

    Hamilton Grange at its current location./Image Credit: LPC

    The Federal-style mansion is also a national historic landmark. On May 19, 2020, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to calendar a decision to amend the individual landmark designation for the Hamilton Grange mansion located in Hamilton Heights, Manhattan. Hamilton Grange is a two-story frame mansion that belonged to Alexander Hamilton. The mansion was located at 287 Convent Avenue at the time of its designation but it was moved to 414 West 141st Street in 2008. The amendment would rescind the designation for the former site and designate the current site.

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    Tags : 414 West 141st Street, Hamilton Grange, Hamilton Heights, Landmark Designation Amendment, Landmarks Preservation Commission
    Date: 06/03/2020
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    LPC Calendars Update to Kingsland Homestead’s Landmark Designation

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Landmark Designation  •  Flushing, Queens

    Kingsland Homestead Image Credit; Queens Historical Society

    Landmark’s works to make sure Kingsland Homestead’s designation is accurate. On May 19, 2020, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to calendar a proposed amendment that would update Kingsland Homestead’s landmark designation to its current location. Kingsland Homestead was built in 1785 on tract of land located near Block 5270 in Flushing, Queens. In 1965, the two-story home was designated as a landmark at 40-25 155th Street in Flushing. Shortly after, in 1968, Landmarks approved a Certificate of Appropriateness to move the landmark to its current Weeping Beech Park location. This amendment would update the landmark designation to 143-35 37th Avenue, the Weeping Beech Park address in Flushing. Timothy Frye, Director of Special Projects and Strategic Planning, presented the application to the commission.

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    Tags : Flushing, Flushing Queens, Kingsland Homestead, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Weeping Beech, Weeping Beech Park
    Date: 05/28/2020
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    Iconic Postmodern Tower Takes Step Toward Individual Landmark Designation

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Hearing  •  Midtown, Manhattan

    AT&T Building. Image credit: LPC.

    Proponents of revitalization stressed need for adaptability in redeveloping currently vacant building, others lamented destruction of lobby, and urged Landmarks to maintain oversight of entire lot. On June 19, 2018, Landmarks held a public hearing on the potential designation of the former AT&T Corporate Headquarters at 550 Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The 37-foot-tall tower was completed in 1984 and designed by Philip Johnson, recipient of a 1979 Pritzker Prize, and John Burgee. An early significant work of postmodern architecture, in the Headquarters Johnson and Burgee, rejected the unadorned glass curtain walls of International Style modernism, exemplified in New York by the Seagram Building. The building is clad in masonry and employs historicist quotations, including its famous pediment recalling design motifs in Chippendale furniture. It possesses a monumental entrance arch on Madison Avenue that is flanked by more arches that originally opened to Italian Renaissance-inspired arcades beneath the tower, and covered pedestrian space between east 55th and 56th Streets. The arcades have since been filled in. (more…)

    Tags : 550 Madison Avenue, AT&T, AT&T Corporate Headquarters, designation, Italian Renaissance, Landmarks, postmodern architecture
    Date: 06/29/2018
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    Scenic Landmark Designation of Coney Island Boardwalk Proceeds

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Designation Hearing  •  Coney Island, Brooklyn

    Coney Island Boardwalk. Image credit: LPC.

    Many speakers asked Landmarks to seek more binding control to ensure the boardwalk’s wood planking is replaced in kind. The Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing on the potential scenic landmark designation of the Coney Island Boardwalk at its meeting on April 17, 2018. The designation would include the boardwalk and all structures on it, including furniture, concession pavilions, comfort stations, and lifeguard stations. A 100-foot-wide corridor of sand below and adjoining the boardwalk would be included in the designation. (more…)

    Tags : Boardwalk, Coney Island, Coney Island Boardwalk, landmark, Mermaid Parade, scenic landmark
    Date: 04/26/2018
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    Landmarks Votes to Calendar Harlem Branch of New York Public Library for Designation

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Calendaring  •  Harlem, Manhattan

    The Harlem Branch of the New York Public Library. Image Credit: LPC

    The library that would become the Harlem Branch was originally established in 1825. On February 2, 2021, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to calendar the Harlem Branch of the New York Public Library for future designation. The Harlem Branch is located at 9 West 124th Street across from Marcus Garvey Park in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. (more…)

    Date: 02/08/2021
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