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The Historic & Landmarks Preservation Board met Thursday, October 29, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. in the Common Council Chamber. The board approved the September 24, 2026 meeting minutes, adjusted the agenda to hear 38 North Division Street first, reviewed two Certificate of Appropriateness applications, and held over remaining business until December 3.
29th first agenda item of the evening is the approval of minutes from the September 24th meeting. I know they were circulated. Was anybody have any questions or concerns about the meetings as written? Motion to approve. Second. All in favor? I I abstained because I wasn't present. There you go. We're going to adjust the agenda for the evening to the third item, which is 38 North Division Street. How are you guys doing this evening? Uh my name's Patty Neville, 38 North Division Street. I'm the owner. Um looking to change the windows that are on there right now. Okay. Uh they were a very bad. Uh sure, go ahead. Very bad replacement that was done on them prior to the building that was bought. They're being held together and up with duct tape. If everybody's seen the bad aluminum windows with the springs that constantly fall out. So they're an eyesore and everything else. So the windows, there was a little confusion with the windows when they were ordered. Um what we're looking to do is you can see if the look at the board 38 North Division is the one with the at the lower part. Um the windows that we ordered are black to match the ones that are going on to the new Kathleen's tea room and stuff like that. So there's continuity going through the back. There are four over one. Uh the building is from 1893. Um, we have I wasn't able to get any photos of the frontage of the building from the dates going back. We searched throughout trying to see if we could find it. Um, one of the reasons like we went with the four over one was across the street. I have the speakeasy tattoo that's actually a six over one down the block. They did a four over one as well on the uh taco district. Um, a couple of the other windows that are historical in the area. Washington Street has a bunch that are four over one, um, Nelson Avenue, uh Union, um the Uriah School over uh that has four over one on there. So it's trying to keep something that was period error and stuff like that that also will one energy efficient and two uh kind of go back to the old historical look of the the multiple panes. Your interior pictures were alarming. Yeah. Oh, they're bad. They're bad. I've been trying to do this now for since 2022 to get these replaced, but we had to wait and everything to get approval from the state and all the other stuff, and then there was confusion with the state. We finally got another letter from the state that that's uh good with uh going with the four over one. Maybe just for the group's clarity, explain how the state's involved with this decision. States involved in it, which I still don't know if I'm gonna go through with it. Uh we were we were given a uh approval for a DRI grant for updating the windows doing the stucco. Eventually, it was to put an outdoor patio into the back of Whiskey River to clean up that whole area. So instead of it being a trash dump and a spot for the junkies to throw their needles to actually beautify it, clean it up and make it more attractive as people come into Peteskill, come down Main Street, see that location as beautified and everything, and then it you know it sets a tone for coming into the rest of the town.