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    Landmarks Votes to Designate Harriet and Thomas Truesdell House as Individual Landmark

    Designation  •  Downtown Brooklyn

    Harriet and Thomas Truesdell House Image Credit: LPC

    The designation retains its historical significance despite having alterations. On February 2, 2021, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designated the Harriet and Thomas Truesdell House as an individual landmark. The house, located at 227 Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn, recognizes abolitionists Harriet and Thomas Truesdell and the City’s abolitionist movement. For CityLand’s prior coverage of this designation process, click here. (read more…)

    Tags : Landmark Designation, Landmarks
    Date:02/03/2021
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    GUEST COMMENTARY: Demarest Be Damned

    Jeffrey A. Kroessler

    The Demarest Building, at 339 Fifth Avenue. Image Credit: Google Maps

    Landmarks decisions should not be made behind closed doors. Yet they are when the Landmarks Preservation Commission refuses to hold a hearing as it recently did with the Demarest Building. (read more…)

    Tags : 339 Fifth Avenue, demarest building, guest commentary, landmark calendaring, Landmark Designation, Landmarks Preservation Commission
    Date:01/30/2020
    Category : Commentary
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    Landmarks Designates Sunset Park Historic Districts

    Designation  •  Sunset Park, Brooklyn

    Rowhouses along 50th Street in Sunset Park 50th Street Historic District. Image Credit: LPC.

    The four historic districts contain the most cohesive intact concentrations of high-quality architecture in Sunset Park, representing its primary periods of development. On June 18, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designate four areas of Sunset Park, Brooklyn as historic districts: Sunset Park North, Sunset Park South, Central Sunset Park, and Sunset Park 50th Street. Sunset Park North, South, and Central Sunset Park Historic Districts are areas where coherent historic streetscapes continue across several blocks and together create a strong sense of place. The Sunset Park 50thStreet historic district contains two complete rows of browstones designed by Henry Spicer and Thomas Bennet and is the most consistent block in Sunset Park. The district boundaries were determined following extensive analysis of over 4,000 buildings between 40th and 60th Streets and 4th and 7th Avenues. Landmarks calendared the districts on January 22, 2019, and held a public hearing on May 7, 2019. (read more…)

    Tags : Brooklyn Historic Districts, Central Sunset Park HD, Landmark Designation, Sunset Park 50th Street HD, Sunset Park Historic Districts, Sunset Park North HD, Sunset Park South HD
    Date:06/25/2019
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Landmarks Votes to Designate Seven Broadway Buildings as Individual Landmarks

    Landmark Designation  •  Union Square, Manhattan

    Five of the seven buildings designated as individual landmarks on June 11, 2019. Image Credit: Google Maps

    Commissioners commented on the importance of communicating the benefits of landmarking to the public. On June 11, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to designate seven buildings as individual landmarks on Broadway south of Union Square. The buildings are located at 817 Broadway, 826 Broadway, 830 Broadway, 832 Broadway, 836 Broadway, 840 Broadway, and 841 Broadway. The seven buildings were constructed between 1876 and 1902. The buildings housed garment manufacturers, book publishers, and even a movie studio and reflected a time when Manhattan was continuing to grow north. (read more…)

    Tags : 817 Broadway, 826 Broadway, 830 Broadway, 832 Broadway, 836 Broadway, 840 Braodway, 841 Broadway, Landmark Designation, Landmarks Preservation Commission
    Date:06/17/2019
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Landmarks Designates the National Society of Colonial Dames in New York Headquarters as Individual Landmark

    Landmark designation  •  Yorkville, Manhattan

    The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York Headquarters at 215 East 71st Street in Manhattan. Image Credit: LPC.

    Although the original landmarking proposal also included an application to designate the Headquarter’s interiors, the Colonial Dames Society withdrew their support for that application. On June 11, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to designate the Headquarters of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York as an individual landmark. The four-story Headquarters building is located at 215 East 71st Street in Manhattan, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York commissioned Richard Henry Dana Jr. to design the building in 1928 to serve as the Society’s headquarters and a house museum displaying colonial residential architecture and interior design. Dana, a specialist in colonial revival architecture, designed the Headquarters in the Georgian Revival style, using as inspiration a variety of colonial homes along the eastern seaboard, with the 1750 Colonel John McEver House as his primary reference. (read more…)

    Tags : 215 East 71st Street, Colonial Era, Georgian Revival Style, individual City landmark, Landmark Designation, Richard Henry Dana, The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York
    Date:06/13/2019
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Landmarks Holds Designation Public Hearing for Seven Broadway Buildings

    Landmark Designation  •  Union Square, Manhattan

    Five of the seven buildings considered for designation. Image Credit: Google Maps

    Residents divided between bureaucratic concerns and a desire for a larger historic district. On December 4, 2018, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held public hearings for the individual landmark designation of seven buildings on Broadway south of Union Square. The buildings are located at 817 Broadway, 826 Broadway, 830 Broadway, 832 Broadway, 836 Broadway, 840 Broadway, and 841 Broadway. (read more…)

    Tags : Landmark Designation, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Union Square
    Date:12/10/2018
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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