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The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announced Friday that the Peleg White House in Ledyard has been nominated for the state's Register of Historic Places.

If listed on the state register, the house will be nominated to the national register and listed there if approved by the National Park Service.聽

The聽two-story yellow house was built in 1836 and is located聽on a half-acre lot at 2297 Dixon Road. Entrepreneur Peleg White and his wife, Eunice, lived there after moving to the area from Massachusetts.聽

According to the house's by Auburn preservationist Andrew Roblee, White sold a medical ointment called White's Sticking Salve. He was also聽notable for being a聽signatory of an 1835 petition to Congress calling for the emancipation of slaves in Washington, D.C., that was drafted at the North Street Friends Meeting House near Aurora. He and Eunice were members of the Quaker church there.

Roblee told 水果派AV that a major part of the house's significance is its architecture. It was constructed in a transitional Federal and Greek Revival style, bridging the two periods in its design.聽

鈥淭he building is also really unique because it has a centrally located stairwell, which was unusual for its time,鈥� Roblee said.

Roblee said there were initially doubts whether the stairs were original since homes built in that period typically had central chimneys. However, a hidden building technique put those doubts to rest.聽

鈥淲e could tell it was original because the plaster behind the staircase was riven,鈥� he said, 鈥渨hich means it was pulled together by hand and not cleanly cut by saw.鈥�

The current owners of the house are hoping to use the tax breaks that come with historic register status to renovate it into a rental property for short and extended stays, Roblee said. Because it would be considered a commercial property with a projected cost under $2.5 million, it would be eligible to have up to 50% of its renovation costs covered by federal and state tax credits if added to both registers.聽

Roblee estimated that 75% of the work would be restoring the building to its original state, while the rest would add modern amenities like central air that would make it more preservable long-term.

While the house's current name includes just Peleg, Roblee said the name will soon be updated to the Peleg-Eunice White House to include his wife.聽

Randy Simons, the commissioner pro tempore of the state historic preservation office, said in a news release that investing in such properties helps bring New York state鈥檚 diverse history to light.聽

鈥淚n doing so, we鈥檙e increasing our knowledge of our past and helping preserve these places for the future,鈥� he said.

According to the office, New York state spent more than $7.17 billion on rehabilitation efforts between 2018 and 2024, making it the top user of historic tax credits in the country over that period.聽

A from the National Park Service found that the tax credits created 91,386 jobs and netted approximately $1.79 billion in federal, state and tax revenue between 2019 and 2024.聽聽

Other nominations with the Peleg White House included John Steinbeck鈥檚 writing cottage in Sag Harbor, a commercial historic district in Buffalo; the post-Vatican II St. Peter鈥檚 Church in Manhattan; the home of prominent Black community leaders George and Theodora Bragg in Elmira; and additional documentation of LGBTQ+ history for the Louis N. Jaffe Art Theater in New York City.

Apart from the economic benefits of historic preservation, Roblee said it also gives communities something that money cannot buy.聽

鈥淚t really preserves a sense of place, it鈥檚 part of our heritage, and it gives the places that we live a sense of identity,鈥� he said.聽

鈥淵ou can travel the country and there are plenty of places you can go where the modern architecture and urban development doesn't give you a personal sense.鈥澛�