HOUSING : Crawford & Stearns, Architects and Preservation Planners, PLLC has provided documentation, architectural design, planning, code compliance, historic preservation rehabilitation tax credit consulting, and historic preservation conservation services relating to the restoration, preservation and/or adaptive reuse of numerous historic properties for residential rental occupancy including the following representative projects:
Harbor Street Lofts / Syracuse, NY
Architects and preservation consultants for $7,000,000 adaptive reuse of National Register-listed factory building as 40 units of housing (2015-2016). The structure was originally designed in 1906 by prominent Syracuse architect Gordon A. Wright as new state of the art knitting mill to house the growing company started by brothers Eugene and George West known as West Brothers Co. The 3+ story structure is 58’ x 175’ red brick building with load bearing masonry walls and wooden joist supported by heavy wooden posts. The project was presented with a preservation award from the Preservation Association of Central New York in 2018.
Babcock Shattuck House / Syracuse, NY
The Babcock Shattuck House was originally constructed for Dr. Archer D. Babcock in 1895. The Queen Anne style house served as a post for Jewish War Veterans after World War II and played a key role in the lives of Jewish residents in Syracuse. By the mid-1990s the house, a landmark at the entrance to the Westcott neighborhood, sat vacant for over fifteen years. Crawford & Stearns, under contract to the University Preservation Neighborhood Association (UNPA), provided architectural and historic preservation consulting services for the comprehensive $1,100,000 adaptive reuse of National Register-listed residence for use as four condominium units utilizing a NYS EPF-funded grant and New York State Historic Homeowners’ Tax Credits (2011-2015). The project was awarded a 2014 Pat Earle Award from the Preservation Association of Central New York and an Excellence in Historic Preservation Award from by the Preservation League of New York State in 2016.
Franklin Apartments / Watertown, NY
Architects and Preservation Consultants for $9,000,000 rehabilitation of late 19th century former YWCA building located in the downtown Watertown Public Square National Register Historic District for residential and commercial occupancy. The project has received multiple awards including from the Preservation League of New York State. (2007-2010)
The Five Sisters / Syracuse, NY
Architects and Preservation Consultants for comprehensive exterior rehabilitation of five contiguous two-family Queen Anne style residences located on Park Avenue as part of a neighborhood revitalization project sponsored by Home Headquarters, Inc., a not-for-profit organization dedicated to revitalizing and stabilizing neighborhoods in Syracuse and Onondaga County. These houses were subsequently transferred to a local developer who remodeled the interiors and sold them to private owners. (2006-2007)