Sailors' Snug Harbor Building E
New York, NY
Photo credit: Doug Romines
A National Historic Landmark as well as a designated New York City landmark located on an 83-acre site on Staten Island’s North Shore, Sailors’ Snug Harbor served as a retirement community for sailors from 1833 through 1976. Now a cultural complex, the site has significant architectural resources in the Greek Revival, Italianate, Victorian, and Beaux-Arts period styles, set within varied landscapes, e.g., picturesque lawns, formal gardens, and restored wetlands. Li · Saltzman Architects served as preservation consultants for the exterior restoration of Building E, the easternmost “bookend” of the site’s Greek Revival style buildings. Restoration included brick and marble façades, fieldstone moats, granite steps, cast-iron window pediments, wood windows, sheet-metal roof, cornices, and ornamental ventilators. The elegant nineteenth-century landmark is repurposed as part of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center.
Designation: National Historic Landmark, NYC Individual Landmark
Awards: New York Landmarks Conservancy Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award (2014)
