The TI Park National Register
Update Survey is now complete
You might have thought that the most disrupted summer since the years of World War II wasn’t the best time to try to complete a historic preservation survey in Thousand Island Park. Starting in April, the Thousand Island Park Landmark Society thought hard about how we could survey the buildings not covered in 2019, including the boathouses. We had no idea how many members of the TI Park community would arrive for the summer and how many would want to participate. Volunteer and community safety was top-of-mind.
We are very happy to report that, once again, TI Park rose to the occasion. The survey that will update our architectural data and renew our status on the National Register of Historic Places is complete. With the support of Katie Eggers Comeau, our Historic Preservationist, London Hainsworth, our 2020 Summer Intern and veteran volunteers, we were able to provide individual training to new volunteers and ensure that everyone could survey safely.
Landmark would like to thank the volunteers who, over two years, walked or rode the length and breadth of TI Park and completed electronic survey forms for 330 cottages, 10 public buildings and 6 landscapes correctly and on time. Katie surveyed the Park’s 88 boathouses.
Katie speaks for all of us when she says, “I'm so grateful to all the volunteers who took time out of their summers to help with this project! This survey has been a joy for me and I hope those who helped enjoyed it too. Many thanks as well to the project steering committee and to our two conscientious interns, Mackenzie Carroll and London Hainsworth, who did a great job providing the on-the-ground tech support, survey assignments, and much more! I look forward to wrapping up the nomination in the coming months and celebrating everyone's great work in 2021.”
We are very happy to report that, once again, TI Park rose to the occasion. The survey that will update our architectural data and renew our status on the National Register of Historic Places is complete. With the support of Katie Eggers Comeau, our Historic Preservationist, London Hainsworth, our 2020 Summer Intern and veteran volunteers, we were able to provide individual training to new volunteers and ensure that everyone could survey safely.
Landmark would like to thank the volunteers who, over two years, walked or rode the length and breadth of TI Park and completed electronic survey forms for 330 cottages, 10 public buildings and 6 landscapes correctly and on time. Katie surveyed the Park’s 88 boathouses.
Katie speaks for all of us when she says, “I'm so grateful to all the volunteers who took time out of their summers to help with this project! This survey has been a joy for me and I hope those who helped enjoyed it too. Many thanks as well to the project steering committee and to our two conscientious interns, Mackenzie Carroll and London Hainsworth, who did a great job providing the on-the-ground tech support, survey assignments, and much more! I look forward to wrapping up the nomination in the coming months and celebrating everyone's great work in 2021.”
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We would especially like to recognize Roger and Maggie Reid, who, together, surveyed 71 buildings, as well as Dick Greene, who, in addition to surveying buildings on the ground, skippered the boathouse survey work from the river. London surveyed 29 buildings during her summer internship.
Katie is now checking this year’s survey forms and writing up the submission to the State Historic Preservation Office and the National Register for Historic Places. To recognize and thank those who donated or volunteered, Landmark is planning an end-of-project celebration for June of 2021, in hopes that such an event will be possible.
Our continued appreciation goes out to our individual donors and the Preservation League of New York State, the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, the Northern New York Community Foundation, the Thousand Island Park Foundation and the Thousand Island Park Corporation for their support.
Katie is now checking this year’s survey forms and writing up the submission to the State Historic Preservation Office and the National Register for Historic Places. To recognize and thank those who donated or volunteered, Landmark is planning an end-of-project celebration for June of 2021, in hopes that such an event will be possible.
Our continued appreciation goes out to our individual donors and the Preservation League of New York State, the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, the Northern New York Community Foundation, the Thousand Island Park Foundation and the Thousand Island Park Corporation for their support.