Sentence examples for private preservation from inspiring English sources

But it would remove the brick and bluestone, which has troubled both the Landmarks Preservation Commission and Landmarks West, one of the city's most active private preservation organizations.

The Goelets, accompanied by Mr. Field, their lawyer, asked the board not to burden the island with regulations, which they said would hamper their private preservation efforts.

Such is the warning of Richard Moe, president of the trust, which is based in Washington and is the nation's largest private preservation organization.

During his tenure, 7,271 buildings were designated for preservation, both individually and as part of historic districts, according to a 1987 study by the Society for the Architecture of the City, a private preservation group.

"The partnership was done for a very good reason, and I find it very sad that for all the work, it comes to this," said John Stubbs, vice president of the World Monument Fund, a nonprofit private preservation group.

It is the city's only major structure in which a private preservation group was in effect an equity partner in the deal that transformed it into apartments, a hugely complex arrangement that provided more than $7 million over the years for a revolving loan fund to help brownstone owners and churches restore their landmark buildings.

The land is now administered by the Mount Gulian Society, a private nonprofit preservation group based in Beacon.

He is on the board of advisers of the Historic Districts Council, a private nonprofit preservation group in Manhattan, and a founder and past president of the Douglaston and Little Neck Historical Society in Queens.

Late on Thursday, Gov. George E. Pataki and two private land preservation groups announced a deal in which the estate had been bought by the groups for about $4 million and would be sold to the state within a year or so.

The New Jersey Conservation Foundation announced yesterday that it had entered into formal agreement to buy 9,400 acres in the heart of the Pine Barrens, representing what it said would be the largest private land preservation deal ever undertaken by a nonprofit organization in the state.

The true American model is hunter-funded private sector preservation.