See Also
Essential Books
& Publications
“Biosphere Reserves—The International Vanguard
of Rural Depopulation”-
National Park Service: Part 2, Positions on Property, Vol. 2,
No. 1
(PRFA, Jan. 1995)
(excerpt)
“Zoning
and Building Codes”
- Positions on Property Vol. 3, No. 2 (PRFA, 1996)
Publication
Order Form
Additional Resources
Testimony
to National Parks Subcommittee
Hearing on the National Historic Register, April
21, 2005
By Peter F. Blackman
The National Register is supposed to be elective and an honor.
The National Park Service literature trumpets time and again
that you can do anything you wish with your house without penalty.
The “National Park Service and others will use the
National Register as a bludgeon against the property owner and
trample his property rights, if they can.”
“Supplemental Statement to Testimony”
Subcommittee on National Parks
Hearing on the National Historic Register, April 21, 2005
By Peter F. Blackman
Owner of house in the Historic Green Springs District located
in Louisa County, Virginia, cannot repair his unexceptional,
decrepit house because of National Park Service’s
purported conservation easement on his house. The dispute is
in litigation.
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In-Depth Information
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 “Property Law
Today—The New Feudalism” -By Peter Blackman, Author
and Attorney, Louisa, Virginia, Speech to the Ninth Annual
National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany,
N.Y., October 22, 2005)
Mr. Blackman discusses the disastrous ramifications of the
disregard of property rights in American law today. He points
out that we “have a burden of proof, but one that
we can ably meet, to show that not only are property rights consistent
with these other human rights, but that property rights are critical
to them.”
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 “National
Historic Register Challenges Private Property Rights—Worth
Commenting” - By Carol W. LaGrasse, Reprinted from the
New York Property Rights Clearinghouse, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Spring
2005).
Formal listing on the National Historic Register is deceptively
portrayed by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and
Historic Preservation as non-regulatory, but, once the designation
is in place, the agency uses the weight of its office to enforce
the designation when a building or zoning permit application
is made.
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- “Group
Campaigns to Save Hurricane Mountain Fire Tower” - By
Carol W. LaGrasse PRFA, April 21, 2005
Loyalty to the 80-year old local landmark in Essex County
is fueling a battle led by Elizabethtown resident Gretna Longware
against the DEC’s proposed reclassification of the
area to “wilderness,” apparently at the
behest of influential environmentalists.
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- “Questions
Historic District” - By Carol W. LaGrasse, PRFA, Letter
to Editor published in Freeman’s Journal, Cooperstown, N.Y.,
May 7, 1999
Once a building is placed on the National Historic Register,
either individually or as part of a Historic District, the state’s
Environmental Quality Review Act, SEQRA, mandates that every
state and local agency take into account the historic preservation
of the building when the agency receives an application for the
permit.
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