POP PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST TO HONOR CITY HALL AND LOCK 17 CENTENNIALS A photography contest honoring the 100th anniversary of Little Falls’ City Hall and the 1916 completion of an enlarged Lock 17, sponsored by Preserve Our Past, is scheduled for the upcoming 2016 fall season. Cash prizes will be awarded by local judges who are […]
PRESERVE OUR PAST HONORS INDIAN CASTLE BOARD WITH RESTORATION AWARD Preserve Our Past of Little Falls has presented its 2016 spring preservation award to the board of directors of Indian Castle Church. This effort has been an on-going process since 1970’s when the Mohawk Indian mission church erected by Sir William Johnson was the victim […]
MANY LITTLE FALLS STREETS NAMED AFTER LOCAL HEROES — Nan Ressue, POP Chair Gansevoort Street is one of the longest and most beautiful streets in Little Falls and takes its unusual name from Colonel Peter Gansevoort who was the young but determined officer in command of Fort Stanwix in August of 1777 when it suffered […]
POP SALUTES THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF NATIONAL PRESERVATION LAW Preserve Our Past of Little Falls salutes the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, our country’s first and most important legislation on the subject. This law established the National Register of Historic Places in America and outlined the […]
Short sleeve tees in Historic Little Falls design in olive, gold or grey. 100% cotton priced at $15.00 Long sleeve tees in Historic Little Falls design in cranberry, cobalt or charcoal, 100% cotton priced at $18.00. Original design is line drawing of selected fine houses within our National Historic District. White china coffee mugs in […]
Preserve Our Past Nominates Schafsteck Family for Preservation Award Preserve Our Past, Little Falls, has announced that its fall 2015 award for excellence in historic preservation has been awarded to Ramona and Kurt Schafsteck of Cherry Valley for their work on the 1890 Queen Ann residence at 14 Burwell Street, Little Falls. This project was […]
Ann Tomei, owner of the handsome brick Italianate home at 547 Garden Street, Little Falls, has been nominated by Preserve Our Past’s Board of Directors to receive the spring 2015 Historic Preservation Award. Ms. Tomei assumed ownership of the building in 1979 and has been moving carefully through a series of restorations aimed at preserving […]
Students tour city hall for Preserve Our Past essay By Stephanie Sorrell-White, Times Staff Writer Posted May. 5, 2015 at 6:24 PM LITTLE FALLS — Where the staircases meet at Little Falls City Hall is a stained glass picture window of Moss Island, made by Abram Zoller in 1918*. (*Actually he was the mayor at […]
The first annual Little Falls Cheese Festival sponsored by Main Street First is scheduled for July 11, 2015 and planned for a West Main Street location in the city. Preserve Our Past is happy to support this effort by providing a documented summery of the Herkimer County Cheese market as influenced by Harry Burrell and his […]