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Kingston HLPC denies DAR’s request to replace windows at 106–122 Green Street
Summary
The Historic Landmark Preservation Commission denied a Certificate of Appropriateness for the Daughters of the American Revolution’s plan to replace all windows at the DAR House (106–122 Green Street), concluding the proposed replica windows would harm the building’s historic integrity and directing restoration instead.
The City of Kingston’s Historic Landmark Preservation Commission denied a Certificate of Appropriateness on April 3 for the Daughters of the American Revolution’s (DAR) application to replace all windows at 106–122 Green Street with new “exact replica” windows. The commission said the evidentiary record and a professional condition assessment support restoring the existing historic windows rather than wholesale replacement.
Commissioners focused on how proposed replacement windows differ dimensionally and materially from the existing historic sashes. The commission retained a professional historic wood-window preservationist, Stacy Caputo, who prepared a condition assessment and compared the ordered replacements with the in-place windows. The commission concluded the proposed units were significantly different in dimensional profile, muntin thickness and material qualities, and that removing the existing windows would…
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