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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An empty building in Albany’s Downtown Historic District would be restored pretty much to look the way it did a century ago, according to plans submitted to the city’s planning division.
Big city fine triggers story on old house
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.
Tags: Albany Building Division, apartments, building permits, code compliance, code enforcement, Hackleman District, historic houses, housing, Landmarks Commission