"These architectural treasures belong to every resident of the city," said Erin Tobin Bearden, director of preservation services, and the foundation hopes to spark interest in saving them.

It's been five years since Historic Albany issued an endangered list. The Wellington, including the properties around it on State Street, and three other buildings singled out are still under watch -- Trinity Church in the South End; the Queen Anne-style mansion at 755 State St., vacant for decades; and the Third Precinct police station at 22 N. Pearl St.

Newcomers to the list are the Church of the Holy Innocents, built at 271 N. Pearl St. about 1850; the 127-year-old School 17 at 43 Second Ave., which has been closed for about 30 years; and the Albany Knitting Co. at 373 South Pearl St., which was built in 1886 to house the Leiderkranz Singing Society, founded by Albany's German residents.

Also for the first time, a planning concept, rather than a building, made the list: the city's Traditional Neighborhood Overlay District, which officials created in 1993 to protect historic homes in the Pine Hills, Manning Boulevard, Helderberg and New Scotland neighborhoods. Historic Albany has reached out to homeowners of the many Arts and Craft and Colonial Revival houses to offer technical services and assistance for preserving their architectural integrity.

Bearden was flanked by preservationists and politicians outside Trinity Church to announce the new list and a planning session this spring aimed at finding ways to restore the buildings.

County Executive Michael Breslin said the county wants to help put tax-foreclosed historic properties into the hands of developers willing to restore them. While none of the privately owned properties are on the county's foreclosure list, two are currently tax-delinquent.

The defunct Capitol Hill Improvement Corp., which still legally owns Trinity Church, owes $677 in property taxes from 2001, said Breslin spokeswoman Kerri Battle. Albany Asian Community Associates owes about $13,600 in taxes on the Third Precinct station since 2001.

School 17, which was closed in 1975, was left out of the city school district's $175 million rebuilding plan after engineers determined it would cost too much to restore it, said district spokeswoman Tara Mitchell.

In 2003, voters approved selling the school building to a South End resident who wanted to convert it into an arts and community center, but the sale never closed. The resident, Trudy Magee, estimated the project would cost $3.5 million.

One of the most significant landmarks to come off the endangered list is St. Joseph's Church, a key feature of Albany's skyline.