The New York State Board for Historic Preservation recommended 25 properties and districts for addition to the State and National Registers of Historic Places during a meeting March 12.
The nominations include industrial sites, historic homes, churches, schools and neighborhoods that reflect development and community history across New York.
Several sites in the Capital Region are among the nominations. They include the Pine Hollow Road Historic District in Slingerlands, a small cul-de-sac development featuring three homes designed between 1941 and 1947 by Albany architect Henry L. Blatner, and the Stuyvesant Landing Historic District in Columbia County, a Hudson River landing community with buildings dating from about 1750 through 1935.
The board also recommended the Whelan Bottling Works in Troy, established around 1881 and associated with mineral water and bottled beverage production, and the Liddle Warehouse in Glens Falls, which operated as a wholesale grocery distribution center from 1918 to 1939.
Industrial history is reflected in additional nominations, including the Railway Steel Spring Company Foundry and Sand House in Hudson, built in 1905 as part of a metal casting operation, and the Albany Industrial and Warehouse Historic District, which developed as the city’s industrial center near the Erie Canal and major rail and river routes.
Central New York nominations include the Coughlin Brothers–Babson Brothers Factory in Syracuse, built in 1927 for confectionery manufacturing and later adapted for dairy equipment production, and the Ignatius Fiesinger House, an 1873 residence tied to immigrant settlement and later preservation efforts.
Other recommended properties include the LeRoy Methodist Episcopal Church in Genesee County, built in 1885–1886, and the Nathaniel Hawthorne School No. 25 in Rochester, constructed in 1914–1915 with a design reflecting early 20th-century educational planning.
In the Mid-Hudson region, the Demarest–Bernard House in Highland and the Grinnell–Satterlee House in Wappingers Falls were nominated, along with the Howell-Hinchman Tannery complex in Middletown and an expanded listing for the historic Senate House property in Kingston that adds a 1920s museum annex.
Additional nominations include the DeVillers-Cope Mills Historic District in Otsego County, two public housing developments in New York City built in 1950–1951, the Church of Saint Sacrament in Bolton, and Six Nations Cemetery in Schuyler County.
Western New York nominations include the Middlesex Gardens Apartment Complex in Fredonia, the Chapel Road Apartment Houses in Kenmore, the South Presbyterian Church and Cold Spring Storage Company Warehouse in Buffalo, the Seeger-Scherer Furniture Store Building, and the Arcade Downtown Historic District in Wyoming County.
If approved by the state historic preservation officer, the properties will be listed on the New York State Register of Historic Places and then nominated for listing on the National Register of Historic Places for review by the National Park Service.
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