Save the Frozen Cup!
From: Alan Woodruff ([email protected])
Village Historian
Incorporated Village of Bellerose
Dear Friends and Neighbors
As many of you may be aware, the beloved Neighborhood Icon, “The Frozen Cup” will most likely fall prey to the wrecking ball to make way for a new hotel.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation sponsors a program called “This Place Matters” which is a website which showcases all types of properties of historic nature and/or properties of importance to the community. The Frozen cup has been a part of our landscape and our lives for half a century. As the Bellerose Village Historian, the importance of it’s place in our community history should be documented. Also, this website many times spurs action among other preservation and historical organizations which may lead to an effort to save the building. It could be preserved in it’s present location, or maybe someone who would want to move it to another location. Sometimes aspects of a significant property can be saved, such as Frozen Cup Iconic “cone sign” At the very least, it will start the documentation of a meaningful part of our local landscape in our history.
What can you do?
1. Visit the website at www.preservationnation.org/thisplacematters
2. Join me in creating a photo to send to this site on Thursday November 13th at 4 PM. I will print out several copies of the “this place matters” sign for people to hold and I will take a group photograph. I encourage children in particular to be part of this historic moment. (so I am cc’ing my Cub Scouts!) Meet me “at the Cup” at this time.
3. Please share with me your memories and stories about the Frozen Cup for our historical archives.
4. Spread the word, buildings are often saved by unlikely resources.
5. Spread the word, that I am collecting information on the Frozen Cup for our historical record.
6. Continue “the buzz” maybe the developer of the property will see that the Ice Cream stand has more importance and support from the community than a hotel would.
Thanks for your support!
Alan Woodruff
Village Historian
Incorporated Village of Bellerose
See also http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2008/10/frozen-cup-is-history.html