We wrote a post up last night reporting that the Landmarks Preservation Committee was planning to hold a hearing tonight to calender the Hebron Seventh Day Adventist School complex (originally the Methodist Home, built in 1899). Unfortunately, we got word this morning that it has been postponed. But it’s still worth discussing. Although this complex, which is almost an entire square block in size, is in the proposed Crown Heights North Historic District, it is in Phase 2 and therefore potentially still vulnerable to a developer who would care more about the huge plot of land than the building’s architectural significance. The building, which the AIA Guide notes “has the look of an asylum,” sat abandoned for many years until the church acquired the property less than a decade ago. For all the critics who say that preservationists only re-act, this is an example of a community group trying to be proactive to save an important part of its history.
Hebron Seventh Day Adventist School [Brownstoner] GMAP