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Hudson Valley Demolition Alert As
the Hudson Valley region undergoes its most massive physical
transformation since Urban Renewal, we are losing historic sites at an
alarming pace. Call it suburbanization, sprawl,
whatever you like. We are losing the places that gave the Hudson Valley
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Storms Tavern, |
UPDATE: The rock quarry company
Tilcon has been renovating an 18th-century home uphill from its operations in
central Rockland County. In 2006, a company spokesperson stated that the house
was "uninhabitable" and "infeasible to refurbish," leading
to concern hat the house would be demolished. Due to community opposition
to demolition, Tilcon decided to keep and renovate the building and the company
will rent it out to employees for housing. Storms Tavern is believed to have
been built in 1765. (Thanks to Eric in Rockland for the update.)
Link to this entry:
http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/alert/2008.html#storms
Original Entry: March
4, 2006
April 24, 2008
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The Lancaster, |
The village of Hastings-on-Hudson recently
buried the remains of the steamboat Lancaster during the creation
of a new riverfront park. A small remnant of the boat is still visible at
low tide. Built in 1892, the Lancaster was brought to New York in 1924
and abandoned about 1928. It later became a shad fishing camp known as "Capt.
Popp's fish house," which ceased operation in the
1960s.Although celebrated on the village's "Museum in the Streets"
signs, the actual boat was apparently forgotten about, or simply deemed not
worthy of inclusion in the new park.
Link to this entry:
http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/alert/2008.html#lancaster
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Ruins - Rob Yasinsac
WARBURTON AVENUE BLOCK UPDATE:
At its April 22 meeting, the Yonkers City Council voted
in favor of designating the Manor House Square a historic landmark district. The
Greyston Foundation will work to preserve the previously-threatened Warburton
Avenue block into its plans for the site.
Original Entry: February
1, 2008
April 17, 2008
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Kedem Winery, |
Next week, the Town of Marlborough will begin demolition of the Kedem Winery storage building in Milton, on the Hudson River in Ulster County. The Town acquired the property as a donation in 1999; Marlborough will use funds from a New York State Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation grant to pay for demolition of the winery building and redevelopment of the land as a public park. Demolition should be completed in June.
Source Article:
"Building to make way for park." By Greg Marano, The Poughkeepsie
Journal. April 17, 2008.
Link to this entry:
http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/alert/2008.html#kedem
February 2, 2008
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Fort Slocum, |
The New Rochelle City Council voted
unanimously on December 4, 2007, in favor of demolishing all remaining
structures on David's Island. The 78-acre island one-half mile off the shore of
mainland New Rochelle was developed as a Civil War hospital and became known as
Fort Slocum in the 1870s, serving eventually as a recruitment center, training
school, Air Force Base and a Nike Missile Control Base. Fort Slocum closed in
1965. Since then, redevelopment plans including housing and a nuclear power
plant, have all come and gone. The United States Army Corps of Engineers has
demolished many buildings in the past few years, and it seemed as if a small
number of structures were going to be preserved. The recent City Council vote
came as the city did not want to bear any responsibility for preservation and
maintenance of the structures.
Source Article:
"All buildings on Davids Island to go." By Ken Valenti, The Journal
News. February 2, 2008
Link to this entry:
http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/alert/2008.html#davids
February 1, 2008
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Masonic Lodge
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Warburton Avenue Block, |
An intact block of 19th-century buildings
in Yonkers is threatened by a proposal for a high-rise apartment building. The
buildings are lcoated directly across from Philipse Manor Hall State Historic
Site, and the
Greyston Foundation wants to raze the north half of the block to build a
16-story, 108-unit condominium tower. Ironically, Greyston has preserved two
other buildings in downtown Yonkers but does not want to take that approach for
this block.
Source Article:
"Yonkers historic district may derail Greyston's condo high-rise." By
Ernie Garica, The Journal News. December 17, 2007.
Link to this entry:
http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/alert/2008.html#warblock
January 25, 2008
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Centennial Hose Company
No.4 Firehouse, |
The New York State Department of
Transportation plans to demolish the Centennial Hose firehouse at the corner of
Central Avenue and Water Street by June 1. The DOT owns the building and wants
the building demolished in order to plant pylons for a new Route 9 bridge, to replace
the overpass seen in the photograph here. The City of Peekskill has earmarked one
million dollars for the preservation of the firehouse, and a group of
preservationists would like to move the building across the street, adjacent to
the restored New York Central Railroad freight station, popularly known as the
"Lincoln Depot" (Abraham Lincoln gave a speech in front of an earlier
station on that spot). The Centennial Hose firehouse was built in 1890 (the fire
company was formed in 1876) and abandoned in 1977.
Source Article:
"Time running out for historic Peekskill firehouse." The Journal News,
January 16, 2007, by Robert Marchant.
Link to this entry:
http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/alert/2008.html#centennial
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