Cutline: The Lakewood Village Hall was nominated to state and national registers of historic places. P-J Photo by Michael Zabrodsky

LAKEWOOD — The Lakewood Village Board of Trustees Monday heard an update about the nomination of Lakewood Village Hall to the New York state and national registers of historic places.

Village Historic Preservation Committee Chairman Ted McCague said with the nominations, the village will have more funding opportunities.

McCague said in 2014 the village began the comprehensive planning process for long-term preservation of the village’s historic building.

“Our nomination is automatically submitted to the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. for review and approval. If that is approved it will go on the national listing of historical places,” McCague said.

McCague added that the review process will take about two to three weeks. “That would be the final step in the process.”

He told the board that if the building receives approval, the village will receive a plaque for the building and a ceremony of acceptance. He also said the building would be properly restored, and it broadens the number of financial resources that are available to the board to fund these kinds of projects.

“By being on the listing, we now got a whole new world of opportunities and funding sources,” McCague said.

At an October 2022 meeting of the village board, McCague updated trustees on the nomination process. At that meeting, McCague said an application was submitted to the New York State Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation Office. The application was reviewed and returned by officials. The building received an approval, so the village hall was officially eligible for historic preservation.

The village recently was awarded a $13,400 grant from the Preservation League of New York State to study the building.

According to the league’s website, preservenys.org, the hall was constructed in 1915 to serve as the first established location for the volunteer Lakewood Hose Company. Over the course of its more than 100 years of continuous operation, the building also functioned as a police station, history museum, community center, and Lakewood’s Village Court.