4 DECEMBER 13, 2018 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Richmond Hill a step closer to historic neighborhood status
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
CMOHAMED@CNGLOCAL.COM
The New York State Historic
Preservation Board has recommended
that a sizable portion
of Richmond Hill featuring Victorian
homes and other notable structures
be added to the State and National
Registers of Historic Places.
The registers are the offi cial lists of
buildings, structures, districts, landscapes,
objects and sites signifi cant in
the history, architecture, archeology
and culture of New York state and the
nation.
“We are grateful for the support of
our Council member Eric Ulrich, who
provided funding for the Survey of
Richmond Hill and for the application
process to the State Historic Preservation
Offi ce, which has made this all
possible,” the Richmond Hill Historical
Society said on its Facebook page.
“We are also thankful for the support
of the Historic Districts Council,
Executive Director Simeon Bankoff
and his staff, who have provided
guidance and support to preserve
Historic Richmond Hill and countless
historic buildings and communities
in New York City.”
Richmond Hill is one of the fi rst
garden communities and planned
suburbs in eastern Queens County,
according to the Richmond Hill
Historical Society. The organization
preserves and revitalizes Richmond
Hill through education and resource
exchange to the community on historic
preservation, restoration and rehabilitation
of its historic homes, churches
and commercial buildings.
The society has also advocated for
landmarking large sections of the
neighborhood for years.
The recommended historic district
consists primarily of large, Victorian
styled and architecturally distinguished
houses built between 1890 and
1915 for railroad commuters working
in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The area
also includes smaller homes built
between the arrival of the subway
in 1917 and the Great Depression in
1930, according to the Richmond Hill
Historical Society. A number of these
homes have been torn down in recent
years and replaced with multi-family
dwellings.
The Richmond Hill Historic District
encompasses a small, early portion
of the current residential neighborhood.
The historic district comprises
a signifi cant, and the most intact,
portion of the original Richmond Hill
subdivision as mapped out in 1868 by
business partners Albon Platt Man
and Edward Richmond.
Its boundary was drawn to take
in the largest concentration of intact
historic houses in the neighborhood,
including nearly all of the earliest
surviving examples (1880s and early
1890s). The district is bounded on the
north by the natural boundary of Forest
Park and the historic boundary
of 84th Avenue (originally known as
Division Avenue since it demarcated
the border with Kew Gardens). To
the east, south and west the district
stops short of Leff erts Boulevard and
Myrtle Avenue.
State and National Registers listing
can assist property owners in
revitalizing buildings, making them
eligible for various public preservation
programs and services, such as
matching state grants and state and
federal historic rehabilitation tax
credits.
Once the recommendations are
approved by the state historic preservation
offi cer, the properties are
listed on the New York State Register
of Historic Places and then nominated
to the National Register of Historic
Places, where they are reviewed
and, once approved, entered on the
National Register.
Photo courtesy of Offi ce of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
One of the many Victorian homes in Richmond Hill
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