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Projects & Places
Preservation Grant Fund Recipients

by Caitlin Meives

Hillcrest Estate, In the latest round of funding,
Town of York, our Preservation Grant Fund
Livingston County
$2000 towards preliminary Committee awarded grants to
architectural services that several exciting and important
will lay the groundwork for
the sensitive rehabilitation projects:
of this country place estate
into an event venue Launched in September, 2012, The
Landmark Society’s Preservation
Grant Fund program offers funds for
preliminary design and planning studies
to help make positive improvements
to at-risk buildings. The program was
initially funded through a bequest from
Elizabeth (Libby) Stewart. Libby was a
longtime Landmark Society staff member
who was dedicated to the revitalization of
Finger Lakes neighborhoods and historic structures.
Regional Land Bank
Corporation The Preservation Grant Fund provides
$2750 towards a feasibility initial “start-up” funding to assist in
study that will guide the saving historic resources and will not
rehabilitation of the vacant pay for any “bricks and mortar” work.
and deteriorated Judge J.K. Only pre-construction services are
Richardson House in the eligible for funding. Specific use of funds
Village of Waterloo is flexible. Examples of eligible projects
include: code compliance studies,
construction estimates, visual project
renderings, measured drawings, and cost
comparisons.

Contact Caitlin Meives at cmeives@
landmarksociety.org to determine if your
project is eligible for this program. Visit
Rochester Refugee our website for the latest information on
Resettlement upcoming application deadlines.
Services, Driving
Park Hotel, Rochester
$1750 towards architectural
services to plan for the
rehabilitation of the vacant
former Driving Park
Hotel in the Maplewood
neighborhood of Rochester

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