Tarrytown Music Hall one of first on New York’s Historic Business Preservation Registry

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — A historic company preservation registry is now in spot thanks to a new initiative to celebrate and honor some of New York’s oldest enterprises.

Tarrytown Tunes Corridor, a cultural crown jewel in Westchester County, is a single of the to start with to be stated, CBS2’s Tony Aiello documented Monday.

“This is a beloved put. We’re taking care of it for awhile. Somebody’s gonna occur just after us, and that sense of continuity definitely is what’s impressive and unique about doing work in this article,” explained Executive Director Bjorn Olsson.

The Tarrytown Songs Corridor has been welcoming patrons due to the fact 1885, the gilded age when captains of marketplace constructed mansions in this Hudson River city.

“Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson have spoken right here. We have observed profit shows featuring Irving Berlin,” Olsson explained.

B.B. King, the B-52’s, and numerous more far too.

The hall survived the 1918 Spanish Flu, as perfectly as the 460-day mandated shutdown in the course of the COVID pandemic, many thanks to really like and help from the community.

“Individuals saved their memberships. They said ‘Hey, do not refund my tickets. Just continue to be there so that you can be there for when this matter is over. I will be again,'” Olsson mentioned.

The appreciate is shared by Condition Senate Leader and Acting Lieutenant Gov. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who nominated the music corridor for the inaugural New York State Historic Company Preservation Registry.

“The character, the history, the attractiveness of the architecture, the acoustics, these factors you will not get a possibility to truly knowledge,” Stewart-Cousins said.

The corridor grew to become a not-for-gain cultural business in the 1980s.  

Placement on the registry provides advertising and advertising help from the state to preserve patrons in the seats for a long time to appear.

Just six % of carrying out arts venues in the U.S. opened ahead of 1900, placing Tarrytown Music Corridor in elite company.