PRESERVATION

Read the REPORT:PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED BY COMMUNITY GROUPS WORKING WITH THE LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSION

Read Charles Lockwood's Glowing Tribute to the Landmarks Preservation Commission on its 40th Birthday And Wonder Why Queens Isn't Mentioned

St George's Parsonage in 1840
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LPC Rejects Landmark Application

Remsen House
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LPC Rejects Landmark Application

Sohmer Piano Factory
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Pennsylvania Railroad Power Plant
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The tide of population ebbs and flows. We cannot get the people … in our churches for they do not remain long enough and so we have to do the best we can. Moreover, the community is no longer a community where neighbors know neighbors. To overcome this tendency I have striven in vain. We have shared the general national and social tendency toward no church attendance. A majority of people … attend church only occasionally. Many of them do not go to church at all. The national phenomenon which depleted our local congregations has defied solution. I suppose people do not go to church because they do not want to. Their children will unfortunately inherit their neutral attitude toward religion or carelessness in regard to it.

--Pastor McGuffey, St. James Episcopal Church, Newtown Register, November 20, 1911

Preservation Fees

Amendments to Demolition Laws

Community Facilties Reform

Norwood Gardens

In 2002, Development Came To This Neighborhood

St. George's Parsonage

To Be Demolished

Astoria Presbyterian Church

Another Church To Be Demolished?

Douglaston Hills

One Old House Is Neighborhood Flashpoint

Astoria Town Hall Meeting

Preserving Historic Church Buildings (Queens Tribune Coverage)

Renovating a Landmark

Elmhurst Elk's Lodge Sold To Religious Group. Interior Only To Change

Douglaston Hills Denied Landmark Designation

Landmarks Preservation Commission Plays Manhattan Favorites?

Historic Districts

Why doesn't Queens have many?

Sunnyside Gardens

Trouble In Paradise: Some In the Neighborhood Want Landmarking

Sunnyside Gardens

The Neighborhood Considers Landmarking