ABOUT THE FIRM

Based in Manhattan with services extending throughout the New York Metropolitan Area and beyond, Gregory Dietrich Preservation offers historic preservation expertise encompassing historic tax credits, National Register Nominations and grant applications, along with services related to client representation, research and documentation, preservation planning and Cultural Resource Management. Responding to a broad spectrum of clientele, GDP works with individuals, groups, and municipalities advocating for historic resources, owners and developers seeking to designate and/or redevelop their historic properties, and planning, design, engineering and legal professionals requiring assistance for multiple types of regulatory compliance. GDP also assists historic preservation commissions and planning boards in the adoption of preservation ordinances, and offers ongoing review and testimony of redevelopment applications in order to ensure property owner conformance with local preservation laws.

AWARDS

  • 2024

    75th Police Precinct Station
    Lucy G. Moses Preservation Project Award
    New York Landmarks Conservancy

  • 2016

    Storehouse No. 2, US Navy Fleet Supply Base
    Adaptive Reuse/Historic Preservation Merit Award
    American Institute of Architects – Brooklyn + Queens Design Awards

  • 2015

    Old Brooklyn Fire Headquarters
    Lucy G. Moses Preservation Project Award
    New York Landmarks Conservancy

    Old Brooklyn Fire Headquarters
    New York State Historic Preservation Award
    New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation     

  • 2006

    Austin, Nichols & Company Warehouse Local Designation Coalition
    Grassroots Preservation Award
    Historic Districts Council

  • 2005

    Union County Park System Cultural Landscape and Resource Survey
    Research Award
    New Jersey Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects

  • 2001

    "Austin, Nichols & Company Warehouse" Research Paper
    Cleo & James Marston Fitch Student Prize
    Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning

ABOUT THE PRINCIPAL

A graduate of Columbia University's Historic Preservation and Real Estate Development programs, Gregory Dietrich has been working in the field of Historic Preservation for over twenty-five years. Having worked in both the public and private sectors, he served as the Acting Director of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission’s Historic Preservation Grant Program between 1999 and 2000 before undertaking the National Register Nomination of Lincoln Center in 2001. In 2002 he joined Cultural Resource Consulting Group, where he managed the New York office between 2004 and 2009. At CRCG, Gregory was a project manager and principal investigator on numerous cultural resource studies to satisfy local, state and federal regulatory permitting requirements, while also serving as the company’s Director of Historic Preservation. In 2009 he established Gregory Dietrich Preservation, where his work entails historic tax credit applications, National Register Nominations, and grant applications, along with a variety of services involving historical research, survey, analysis and writing. In addition, he has appeared before municipalities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to offer expert review and testimony on a host of redevelopment applications affecting historic buildings and districts.