In recent weeks, I have shared with you several of this city’s most important and inspiring preservation success stories: the Adelphi Hotel, the Batcheller Mansion Inn, and the Adirondack Train Station. These architectural landmarks are with us today because caring...
Opinion, Editorial, in the Daily Gazette, August 8, 2012 In December 2008, four month after he bought the Winans-Crippen House in his City’s Franklin Square Historic District, Saratoga Springs real estate developer Joseph Boff decided that it wouldn’t be...
Walking along Broadway in the summertime is one of my favorite things about living in Saratoga Springs. Broadway is a playground, a place to have fun and to see and be seen. People watching here is as much a sport as horse racing. I like to imagine what...
Each year in May, as part of National Historic Preservation Month, the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation recognizes those who have preserved the architectural heritage of Saratoga Springs. Award recipients were honored at a public ceremony with Mayor Scott...
You can see it in the Saratoga Race Course, which next year will celebrate 150 years of racing. You can see it in the Canfield Casino, the embodiment of Saratoga’s Gilded Age. You can see it all over the city from the stately commercial buildings that line Broadway to...
State Supreme Court Justice Thomas D. Nolan Jr. denied in all respects an application for demolition of historic 66 Franklin Street brought by the owner Joseph Boff. In his March 22, 2012 decision, Justice Nolan found that Mr. Boff’s claims had previously been denied...
