Run-down historic buildings always are a problem. They're important to the community but expensive to fix, hard to adapt and a drain on taxpayers. Amherst and Williamsville have reluctantly sat on two of them for years. Now, the man who redeveloped one of the most iconic structures on the Buffalo skyline hopes to acquire two of the region's oldest buildings, recasting the dilapidated Williamsville Water Mill and Mennonite Meeting House as profitable enterprises.
Advocates of preservation for seven historic Baltimore buildings, including the former town hall of the 19th century village of Waverly, expect a City Council committee to approve their designation as landmarks at a hearing next week. If any or all of the buildings receive the approval of the Urban Affairs and Aging Committee on Nov. 9, their addition to the registry will be determined by vote of the full Baltimore City Council.
Using a panel data set, a hedonic model is estimated to determine the characteristics of buildings that have influenced the market value assessments of a set of historic and non-historically designated buildings. Holding constant the characteristics of buildings, the findings indicate higher assessed values for some classes of historic buildings. Furthermore, using a two-stage Heckman sample selection model, the findings show that the expenditures on renovations contribute significantly to the change in assessed values of buildings, although less than might be expected. These and other results may be helpful in the design of cost effective rehabilitation strategies for historic preservation.
Here's an item for the state's "to-do" list in 2012: Act now to improve and extend the historic rehabilitation tax credit program. The tax credit program was created to assist developers willing to restore life to old buildings in struggling neighborhoods. The law offers redevelopers of historic commercial buildings a state tax credit of up to $5 million per project. That tax credit leverages private investment dollars to create jobs.
YALE University's School of Management is planning to move from its buildings on Hillhouse Avenue to a new site across from the Peabody Museum on Whitney Avenue. While waiting for architect Norman Foster's design for the new facility to be unveiled, there is an opportunity to reflect on preservation issues the project has raised. Two buildings occupy the site. The older was constructed for the Security Insurance Company in 1924, from designs by Henry Killam Murphy, an architect with strong ties to Yale. The first commercial intrusion into an upper-class residential neighborhood, Murphy's building sought to fit in with its neighbors. It is compact, constructed of soft-colored brick and richly trimmed in stone. It sits back from the street on a lawn dotted with shade trees. The building's...
It was fall 1935, and I had just taken my date home. Strolling down Ninth Street toward Cherry, I noticed the music floating down from the second floor in the rear of the Niedermeyer Apartments. Instantly, I knew a jam session was in progress in Eddie Gibbons' apartment, and I joined the gathering crowd. Members of Eldon Jones Band, including Gibbons, Francis Griffin, Count Solomon and others, played their hearts out into the early hours of the next morning. How anyone slept that night I'll never know! I loved their music as I listened to them often at the Harris Cafe, where I worked as a college student. Just a few months ago, a charming lady, Jerri Cummins Crook, purchased a copy of our book "Historic Downtown Columbia." She brought her book to David James and me to sign and mentioned...
Two landmark churches in Buffalo will receive state money for significant repairs and restoration work on their historic buildings. The state's Environmental Protection Fund will provide $526,796 to Trinity Episcopal Church on Delaware Avenue and $200,000 to Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church at Lafayette and Elmwood avenues.
The city of Portland recently released a report that details a number of Portland's modern historic buildings, properties built between 1945 and 1985 in downtown and inner east Portland. The selective survey documents 152 out of a potential 976 historically significant properties in an effort to provide baseline data for future land-use policy decisions. Complied by Peter Meijer Architect in collaboration with the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the city of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, the report breaks down the age and architectural styles of the buildings surveyed. To the delight of Mad Men fans everywhere, it found that the lions share of the buildings (87 percent) fall in the modern period; the next most common style was Utilitarian.
By Mary E. O'Leary Register Topics Editor moleary@nhregister.com NEW HAVEN -- Buildings from New Haven's late 19th century heyday as a business and industrial center were shown off to the public Wednesday in an updated reincarnation as the newest apartments in the Ninth Square.
By Josh Brown The Virginian-Pilot
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