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SARATOGA SPRINGS — A new six-story building is being proposed to fill a vacant lot on Caroline Street, and a century-old building on the Yaddo grounds is under consideration for demolition.
The city’s Design Review Board is anticipated to review both proposals during its 6 p.m. meeting at City Hall, on Wednesday, Sept. 7.
On Caroline Street, an Architectural Review has been requested for the proposed mixed-use project to be sited in between Sperry’s, and Hamlet & Ghost. The location formerly housed a two-story commercial building that was constructed as a tannery in the late 1800s, but which was felled in the aftermath of a Thanksgiving Day 2016 blaze which started at a neighboring restaurant.
The proposed six-story multi-use building is to feature a restaurant or retail business at the street level consisting of 1,825 square-feet, and a total of 15 apartments on floors two through six, with an approximate per-floor size of 3,025 square-feet. The applicant is Louis Lazzinaro, and the owner GM 30 Caroline Street Corp., of Brooklyn, who had acquired the property in June 2014.
Yaddo
On the grounds of the Yaddo estate, a determination of the architectural/historic significance of the East House building and potential review of the demolition of the structure is under consideration by the board.
The Yaddo estate, off Union Avenue, is fitted with dozens of artist studios and residences, which includes the main manor home or Mansion, West House, Pine Garde, Stone Studios, Pigeon and Dairy/Courtyard studios, and Stone Tower Studio – each of which is considered among the most “sacred” of the estate’s grounds.
East House was built by Spencer Trask sometime before 1903 for the families of his coachmen living on premises. Sometime after 1923, the building was converted into an apartment and the executive director’s office. Location-wise, the 1-1/2 story, Tudor-style structure stands in between the current office building/Trask garage, and the Archway Studio.
An engineer’s inspection in March determined the structure to be “unfit for human habitation,” unsafe, and “in condition of imminent collapse,” according to a report to the city by Ernest Gailor, of Harlan-McGee of North America. “The structure is hereby condemned (and) the building will need to be demolished.”
