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The New York State Register of Historic Places is a listing of "properties significant in history, architecture, engineering, landscape design, archeology, and culture" in the U.S. state of New York. [ 1] The register was created by the New York State Historic Preservation Act of 1980 and is administered by the State Historic Preservation ...
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS OPRHP) is a state agency within the New York State Executive Department [5] charged with the operation of state parks and historic sites within the U.S. state of New York. [6] As of 2014, the NYS OPRHP manages nearly 335,000 acres (523 sq mi; 1,360 km 2) of public ...
Historic preservation in New York is activity undertaken to conserve forests, buildings, ships, sacred burial grounds, water purity and other objects of cultural importance in New York in ways that allow them to communicate meaningfully about past practices, events, and people. Governmental programs for historic preservation range from Federal ...
House at 3 Crown Street, Nelsonville, in Putnam County New York State Capitol, in Albany County Eagle Island Camp, Saranac Lake, in Franklin County Empire State Building, Manhattan, in New York County First Baptist Church of Painted Post, Painted Post, in Steuben County Buffalo City Hall, Buffalo, in Erie County
This is a list of New York (state) historic sites. It includes 40 state-designated historic sites and parks managed by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. [1] [2] Twenty-two sites also are National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) of the United States and are described further in List of National Historic ...
The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is a state governmental function created by the United States federal government in 1966 under Section 101 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). [1] The purposes of a SHPO include surveying and recognizing historic properties, reviewing nominations for properties to be included in the ...
A 2006 survey, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, of the 2000 - 2004 Preserve NYS grant recipients found that funds supplied by the Preservation League “lead directly to the rehabilitation of historic places, leverage significant additional resources (cash and in-kind), and protect properties at the local, state and national ...
9th Floor North. New York, NY 10007. Commission executive. Sarah Carroll, Commissioner and Chair. Website. www.nyc.gov /lpc. The demolition of Pennsylvania Station was a key moment in the preservationist movement, which led to the creation of the LPC. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is the New York City agency charged ...