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“Crow
House”–Henry Varnum Poor House
(1920 with additions); New City, Rockland County.
saved
landmark status: Eligible for lising on the National Register.
threat: Sale for inappropriate development including demolition.
Henry Varnum Poor was a painter and ceramist who built the house and annexes, incorporating a variety of finishes and styles – medieval, arts and crafts, early modernist. The house remains as it was at his death in 1970. The property includes the house and two studios on 6.5 acres. Project nominators, the West Branch Conservation Association and Friends of Crow House, have been working with elected officials to arrange for the public acquisition of the site as open space property with an artists-in-residence program. The current owner (Poor’s son) has entered into a contract to sell to a local businessman who has plans to demolish the site – but who has agreed to re-sell.
objectives: Transfer of ownership to a buyer interested in conserving the property. The League has been providing technical support related to funding and planning strategies.
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