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National Historic Landmark Status?

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  • Started 5 years ago by Catherine
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  1. Catherine
    Member

    I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so has anyone determined whether there is an argument against these plans based on the possible withdrawal of the National Historical Landscape Architecture District Landmark status? My present understanding is that this area is bounded by 26th, Ogden, Harlem, and First, and then was amended to include certain properties along the railroad tracks - worker homes, etc. - and that a present request for amendment has been filed. It doesn't seem to me that the National Park Service is fully aware of these designs on the parkland. See

    http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=818&ResourceType=District

    Unless someone has done it - and it seems someone very well may have - I am going to review the applications for landmark status and all such grants made. Also, I have done some research that shows residents feel most strongly about Swan Pond/Park than any other view or space in town, and I think people would be quite interested in designs on that. Last I read, the TIF declared it "vacant" and "blighted."

    Comments?

    Posted Saturday Dec 2, 2006 10:58 #

  2. Catherine
    Member

    By the way, in spite of repeated misstatements in various places, including the TOD, the Village of Riverside is NOT a national historic landmark. Only the Olmsted Landscape Plan as executed is. Therefore, it should not be possible to mess with it in any way.

    Posted Saturday Dec 2, 2006 11:52 #

  3. jjkunka
    Member

    Most of the Village is a National Historic Landmark as the Riverside Landscape Architectural District. The boundaries are defined on a map which is part of the Preservation ordinance, as well as in other Village documents. The TIF area is part of this District.
    John

    Posted Thursday Dec 7, 2006 14:46 #

  4. Catherine
    Member

    Within those boundaries, only the landscape architecture is a national historical landmark.  That is why the Village has had to apply currently for the gas lamps and other things to also be protected.  My point in saying this is that it highlights that our status could be pulled if any other use is made of the landscape architecture, such as for parking or the construction of government buildings.

    Posted Monday Dec 11, 2006 05:25 #

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