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In-Depth Information
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 “The
Campaign to Save Hurricane Mountain Fire Tower” - By
Gretna Longware, Elizabethtown, N.Y.; Speech to the Ninth
Annual Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany,
N. Y. October 22, 2005)
The 80-year-old Hurricane Mountain Fire Tower is the symbol
around which local Adirondack people are rallying to preserve
their cultural heritage. Mrs. Longware is leading a campaign
to stop a State plan to dismantle the tower.
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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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 “Government, the New
Leviathan” - By James Bovard, Author, Public Policy
Analyst, from Proceedings of the Second Annual N. Y. Conference
on Private Property Rights (Property Rights Foundation of America,
Oct. 19, 1996)
Classical churches are becoming victims of historic preservation.
St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue, New York
City, was blocked by the City Landmarks Commission from selling
its community house to build an office hi-rise, which would have
enabled the church to fund its charitable activities.
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