Historic District Nomination | Update

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PUBLIC HEARING: TUESDAY, NOV 14 @7PM, VILLAGE HALL. Details

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We are making good progress for the final push for the Village of Philmont Historic District nomination!  Philmont’s nomination will be considered for nomination to the National and State Registers of Historic Places by the New York State Board for Historic Preservation at its next meeting, December 4, 2023.

Here’s the scoop on this major achievement for the village and community assisted by the Heritage Working Group, PBI, and the Village govt. working in partnership to get to the finish line.

Jessie Ravage, the preservation specialist, has submitted her final draft of the nomination to SHPO as of last week. The agency is now reviewing it and will make comments (if any) back to Jessie. I will email the final document when I receive it from Jessie Ravage.

We now have actual dates for the letters to be sent by SHPO to the property owners and for the scheduled Public Hearing:

Step 1

1st Letter of notification was mailed in the 1st week of October from the New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS Parks) to every owner with properties located within the Village of Philmont Historic District. This letter provides the information of the nomination process, provides a map of the proposed boundary, a letter from the Mayor of Philmont, informational flyers pertaining to the criteria for the evaluation and benefits the nomination will provide to assist property owners with renovations of properties.

Information packet mailed to property owners.

Step 2

Public Hearing in the Village Hall -Tuesday 14th November at 7pm. 

The public meeting will be presented by:

  1. Erin Czernecki, theHistoric Preservation Program Analyst/ Survey and National Register Unit who is overseeing the nomination process with us,
  2. the homeowner tax credit reviewer available to answer questions from the property owners.
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Step 3

State Review Board meeting – December 4th – to evaluate the nomination will take place at the Philpse Manor State Historic Site in Yonkers.

Step 4

2nd Letter to go out from NYS Parks to property owners – After December 4th – to notify the property owners if the State Review Board accepted the nomination for the the Village of Philmont Historic District to be listed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places.

Step 5

3rd Letter to go out from the NYS Parks to property owners confirming if the Service has reviewed and accepted the nomination. They are allowed to take as long as they want to review nominations.  Usually, reviews are completed within a couple of months after they receive the nomination. So, within that schedule, we should expect that letter to go out in February/March 2024.

This effort, which we hope you agree has been worthwhile, has taken 4 years (2019-2023) to accomplish, with a total project budget of $69,940, which breaks down as follows:

  • $ 43,150 Jessie Ravage fees (Cultural Resources Survey, and the nomination)
  • $  3,700 in printing flyers, maps, and outreach/and postage
  • $ 21,000 in PBI oversight Project Management / and match to 3 grants (BOA, and 2 Preserve NY grants)
  • $     450 community Day Pop-up tent and 2 banners
  • $ 1,140 printing for copies of the Cultural Resources Survey books & 4x Appendices books
  • $     500 consultant fees for History of Philmont presentation 2021 / Kierstead / Heritage Consulting
  • An estimated 60 hours each of volunteer in-kind time for 15 members on the Heritage Working Group
  • An estimated 80 hours of SHPO agency staff time, including 3 community presentations
  • 425 buildings included in the Village of Philmont Historic District will benefit from this effort at no cost to the Village taxpayers, or property owners in the District. 

Heritage Working Group members:

  • Sally Baker, Executive Director, Philmont Beautification, Inc. (Facilitator) and resident of Philmont
  • Tobi Farley, Director, Philmont Library
  • Shawn Jennings, Columbia Opportunities Weatherization and resident of Philmont                                         
  • Arthur King,  Business owner and resident of Philmont                                                        
  • Sarah Barton-King, Designer and resident of Philmont                                                           
  • Robert Hoyt, Counselor, Greener Pathways and resident of Philmont
  • Karen Davala, Business owner, Davala Real Estate       
  • David Bolevice, resident of Philmont         
  • Paul Naprstek, Architect and resident of Philmont  
  • Cara Brownell, resident of Philmont       
  • George Brehm, resident (RIP)        
  • Jake Lewis, resident of Philmont                     
  • Mark Katz, resident of Philmont  
  • Jennifer Thibeault, Business owner
  • Jeane Laporta, Local Historian, Town of Claverack