Draper Park, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
An historic nine acre property in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York contains five nineteenth-century structures in a relatively intact landscape setting. The entire site, buildings and park, is a designated National Historic Landmark.
Stephen Tilly, Architect was commissioned by the Village of Hastings to do an Historic Structures and Landscape Report, Protection Plan and Preventive Maintenance Manual for the property. Controls we developed for future improvements to the structures and property constitute the basis of ground leases for four houses sold at auction. We have given guidance on landscape improvements and on the preservation, relocation and removal of accessory structures.
For the Observatory Cottage, still in Village ownership, we directed exterior and interior restoration/preservation efforts and designed a sympathetic state of the art archive addition for the Hastings Historical Society.
awards
Award for Excellence, Lower Hudson Conference of
Historical Agencies and Museums, 1994
Community Design Award, AIA Westchester/Mid- Hudson
Chapter, 1995
Historical Services Award, Lower Hudson Conference of
Historical Agencies and Museums, 1997
photo: Fred Charles