Historic Preservation

As housing costs continue to rise in Jersey City, there are plans to designate one Bergen-Lafayette redevelopment project as affordable housing.

This Thursday the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy is holding their annual Preservation Awards Ceremony where they honor local companies and individuals for their role in historic preservation.

A historic Mercer County building is slated to be renovated and converted into light fixture manufacturing.

A plan to build a municipal recycling center threatens the serenity of a historically significant 18th-century home called the Samuel P. Paul House.

A group that has long promoted a plan to convert an abandoned rail line into a shared-use nature trail just gained membership into a notable non-profit started by the co-founder of Manhattan’s High Line.

Recently, the National Park Service (NPS) announced $1.2 million in Underrepresented Community Grants for 21 projects in 16 states. Atlantic City was the only city in New Jersey to be awarded a grant.

A new facility has opened in a historic building in Union City for residents who have lost their house or apartment in a fire.

A group of preservationists is trying to buy the former home of a freed slave that is for sale in Montclair.

These futuristic- and island-themed accommodations were frozen in time and preservationists had all but given up on establishing a historic district dedicated to this quirky decade in architecture.

The city’s planning board signed off on a residential housing project that will see a historic but vacant church torn down.