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The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission was created following the preservation fight and subsequent demolition of Pennsylvania Station. New York City's right to limit owners' ability to convert landmarked buildings was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978.
Buildings, sites, districts, and objects in New York listed on the National Register of Historic Places: There are over 6,000 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in New York State. Some are listed within each one of the 62 counties in New York State.
Old Ship Church: 1681 1960 Hingham, MA: Vernacular: Puritan, Unitarian Universalist: St. Luke's Church: 1682 1960 Smithfield, VA: Anglican: Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow: 1685 1961 Sleepy Hollow, NY: Dutch Reformed Church: Old Quaker Meeting House of Queens: 1694–1719 1967 Queens, New York City, NY: Society of Friends: Merion Friends ...
Third oldest surviving church in New York City, after the Flushing Friends Meeting House (1694) and St. Andrew's Church, Staten Island (1709). Morris–Jumel Mansion: Upper Manhattan: 1765 Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead: Flatlands, Brooklyn: 1766 Beekman Arms and Delamater Inn: Village of Rhinebeck: 1766 [13]
In 1960, the chapel was named a National Historic Landmark; it was also made a New York City Landmark and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. When St. Paul's Chapel remained standing after the September 11, 2001, attacks and the collapse of the World Trade Center behind it, the chapel was subsequently nicknamed " The ...
The first New York NHLs were eight designated on October 9, 1960; the latest was designated on January 13, 2021. The NHLs and other landmarks outside NYC are listed below; the NHLs in NYC are in this companion article. Seven NHL sites are among the 20 National Park System historic areas in New York state. [4]
Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site is a church and National Historic Site in Mount Vernon, New York, just north of the New York City borough of the Bronx.Established in 1765, Saint Paul's Church is one of New York's oldest parishes and was used as a military hospital after the American Revolutionary War Battle of Pell's Point in 1776.
The Old St. Patrick's church building was designated a New York City landmark in 1966, [7] and the cathedral complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [1] It was declared a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI on Saint Patrick's Day, March 17, 2010.