Friends of Stewart Park and the City of Ithaca are proud to announce that as of May 5, 2023, Stewart Park is now officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This comes on the heels of the park’s placement on New York’s State Register earlier this spring. A listing on the State and National Registers recognizes the importance of the property to the history of our country and, in the case of Stewart Park, provides the park with added protections that preserve the integrity of park buildings, which were built in the late 1800s. The National Register listing is not only a wonderful feather in the cap for the park, but also means the park will be eligible for state historic preservation matching grants.
This important designation is the result of a collaboration between FSP, Wharton Studio Museum and Historic Ithaca! In 2021, we received a Preserve New York grant enabling us to hire historic preservation consultant Jessie Ravage, who wrote the nomination application for both the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
