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The state's Board for Historic Preservation recommended 26
properties, resources and districts to be added to the State and
National Registers of Historic Places, New York Governor Andrew
Cuomo said.
"New York's history is this nation's history, and we are leading
the way to preserve the sites of significant events for future
generations," Cuomo said in a statement.
Formally known as the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the festival
attracted an estimated 400,000 people to a 600-acre dairy farm
in Bethel, New York for three days in August 1969.
Featuring performances by Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis
Joplin, the festival was one of the most important social and
music events of the 20th century.
The site is currently home to a monument and the Bethel Woods
Center for the Arts, which houses a museum dedicated to
Woodstock.
If approved by the state's historic preservation officer, it
would be listed on the New York State Register of Historic
Places and nominated to the National Register of Historic
Places, making it eligible for various public preservation
programs and services.
Other nominations included the Waterloo Downtown Historic
District in Waterloo, New York built in 1803, the Offerman
Building constructed in Brooklyn in 1890, and the South
Presbyterian Church in Syracuse, New York opened in 1907.
The Niagara Power Project Historic District, a 2,589-acre
hydroelectric power plant in western New York that is one of the
biggest in the United States, also made the list of nominations.
Cuomo said the nomination of the sites will help ensure that the
state's rich heritage is recognized and that the sites remain
viable destinations to attract visitors.
(Reporting by Gina Cherelus, editing by Daniel Wallis and
Cynthia Osterman)
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