Landmarks Commission

Checking on progress at Calapooia Commons

Written January 18th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

Chilly weather this January has not stopped builder Mark Siegner and his carpenters from putting the third floor on the first of the two buildings of Calapooia Commons.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Bill Ryals, Calapooia Commons, Landmarks Commission, Mark Siegner, Monteith Historic District

Big city fine triggers story on old house

Written November 17th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 20 responses.

On Nov. 7 the Albany Landmarks Commission heard from an applicant that the city had fined him $301,000 for failing to get building permits for fixing up an old apartment house. The fine has been sharply reduced, but there’s a story here.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany Building Division, apartments, building permits, code compliance, code enforcement, Hackleman District, historic houses, housing, Landmarks Commission

At least there’s no ‘s’ in Cumberland

Written August 1st, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 9 responses.

Probably the least important question about the Cumberland project in Albany is how to spell it. But it would be helpful to decide on one official version, if only for the benefit of those of us who report on it now and then.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Cumberland center, Department of Interior, event center, Landmarks Commission, National Park Service

Hung up at Landmarks: New set of stairs

Written July 23rd, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 9 responses.

The Albany Landmarks Commission is asking for more details before approving one alteration on the outside of a 114-year-old house in the Monteith Historic District.

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Tags: 925 Walnut, historic house, historic inventory, Landmarks Commission

Saving Central School — with heat louvers

Written May 4th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 10 responses.

Classrooms in Albany’s 109-year-old Central School have problems with ventilation and heating. The school district has devised a solution, and the city’s Landmarks Commission approved it this week.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany schools, Central School, Historic buildings, HVAC, Landmarks Commission, saving history

A new old look for a downtown address

Written April 29th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 10 responses.

If the owners follow through on their plans, the building believed to be the oldest wood-framed commercial structure still standing in downtown Albany will get a new look. An old look, that is.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: 333 W. First, Briggs Building, downtown Albany, historic building, historic district, Landmarks Commission

Box on the roof: City sets public hearing

Written September 24th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 16 responses.

Eventually — maybe one of these years — the oldest former church building in Albany might again get a steeple. But in the meantime it has only the base on which, once upon a time, its steeple sat.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: 238 Third Ave SE, Albany historic inventory, CHANCE, church steeple, historic review, Landmarks Commission