Free this evening? Come support the proposed Washington Avenue Corridor Historic District nomination to the State and National Register of Historic Places!
Join us at 5.30pm in the ACDA Community Room (200 Henry Johnson Blvd, 2nd Floor) for the Historic Resource Commission Meeting.
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It's official! We are out to bid on the stabilization project at 48 Hudson! Yay! What stabilization project you may ask? HAF is reconstructing the south and east foundation wall (they were removed as the building expanded in the 19th century) and restoring the canonical Dutch H-Bent framing. This work has been funded by a generous matching Environmental Protection Fund grant from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. It has also been awarded an Endangered Property Intervention Program loan from the Preservation League of New York State to help carry the construction costs.
This is the first two phases of a five phase project to stabilize the building and restore the front facade so that the Van Ostrande-Radliff House will once again appear like the Dutch building it is.
Information on the bidding process can be found on our website at www.historic-albany.org/stabilization-bid.
Be on the look out for hard hat tours once we are under construction. In the mean time, you can check out the interior of the building as it is today on our website via a virtual tour developed for Historic Albany by Hudson Reality Capture. Take a tour: www.historic-albany.org/48virtualtour
National Register listing is honorific recognition of a group of buildings, sites, landscapes that have historic or architectural importance. Most importantly, buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places are eligible for the Federal and New York State Rehabilitation Tax Credits. The Rehabilitation Tax Credits are the best incentive for investors and homeowners to rehab and improve historic buildings, and are often the gap filler in a project’s funding stream.
National Register listing also requires that any project utilizing state or federal funding be reviewed by the State Historic Preservation Office to ensure no harm will be done to the historic district’s buildings or an individual landmark. This may be a state or municipal project or a private project. For example, a DOT project would require review, as would a project accepting tax credits.
Buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places DO NOT need state or federal approval for any work on the property, including demolition, UNLESS state or federal funds are used for that project.
Want to Know the Difference Between a National & Local Register? Click here
More information about the National Register of Historic Places can be found here.
More information about the New York State Rehabilitation Tax Credit (20% of rehabilitation costs) can be found here.
More information about the Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit (20% of the rehabilitation costs) can be found here.
The proposed district will make over 280 buildings along and just off of Washington Avenue and Western Avenues eligible for the NYS and Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credits.
HAF has been working on this district for over 10 years and is hopeful that later in the year it will officially be listed on both the New York State and National Register. Note that HAF is not seeking local listing.
We encourage you to support Albany's newest historic district by attending the public hearing of the Historic Resources Commission at 5:30pm on Wednesday, August 7th at 200 Henry Johnson Boulevard in the Second Floor Community Room or by sending a letter of support.
Letters can be emailed to Erin Glennon at eglennon@albanyny.gov and addressed to:
John Myers, Chair
Historic Resources Commission
Planning Department
200 Henry Johnson Boulevard
Albany, NY 12210
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