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PLSI - Butler Manor Landmark Alert!
Submitted by SecretSI on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 13:35
The following is a message sent by the Preservation League of Staten Island:
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| Help Save the Butler Manor House by Lamb & Rich |
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| Preservation League of Staten Island Landmarks Alert |
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Greetings!
Your support is needed to Save the Butler Manor House, the only country style home designed by renown Architects Lamb and Rich in New York City.
Request that the Manor House be 'Calendared" for Landmarking, meaning scheduled for a public hearing to save it from demolition.
Until a month ago, it was used as the S.I. Montessori School at 500 Butler Blvd, Butler Manor/Tottenville. It is under consideration for landmarking but was recently purchased by a developer who may demolish it. There are alternate plans for educational, cultural and recreational uses for the mansion, if it can be preserved for future generations.
It is adjacent to Mount Loretto State park and Bulter Manor Woods, a N.Y.S Bluebelt. Preserving the Butler Manor House offers an opportunity to connect the public to park lands, the shoreline along the Raritan bay and Staten Island's history.
Tell the NYC Landmarks Commission ,
They Must Act Now!
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Tell NYC Landmarks to let the Public Decide!
'Calendar'
the Butler Manor House
for a public hearing NOW!
Call:212-669-7817
Fax: 212-669-3844
Email:
Commissioner Robert Tierney at rtierney@lpc.nyc.gov
Mary Beth Betts, Sr. Researcher at mbetts@lpc.gov
Tell NYC Landmarks:
- Let the public decide and schedule a public hearing for this 1908 country estate.
- Landmark Staten Island's Only Lamb & Rich designed house.
- Landmark the Only Country style home designed by Lamb & Rich in NYC.
- Landmarking will allow this site to be adaptively reuse for cultural, educational and recreational uses.
- Landmarking preserves the history of the South Shore,Staten Island.
- The house is contiguous with NYS and NYC parkland, originally part of the 65 acre Butler Manor Estate.
- Preserve the legacy of Architects, Lamb and Rich/
Lamb and Rich (Hugo Lamb and Charles A. Rich)are a noted architectural firm in the late 19th century,for its commercial and institutional architecture in the
Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne, Neo-Gothic styles. They designed Sagamore Hill Estate for Theodore Roosevelt and are known to design estates for wealthy families on the Northeast coast . For more on the history. |
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Sincerely,
Butler Manor Civic Association
Preservation League of Staten Island
Tottenville Historical Society |
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