College to buy historic home Union, nonprofit strike deal on sale of complex that was environmentalist's home By PAUL NELSON Staff writer Updated 09:57 p.m., Monday, April 25, 2011
NISKAYUNA-- Located three miles from campus and adjacent to a 111-acre nature preserve, the picturesque house in the suburbs seems ideally suited to enhance Union College's educational experience.
"The college will have its hands full in restraining people," said Peter Borrelli, a senior adviser with Protect the Adirondacks, a nonprofit group that has agreed to sell Union the former home of the late Adirondack conservationist Paul Schaefer. The two-acre site at 897 St. David's Lane includes a modern addition that contains an Adirondack Research Library.
The money for the purchase was donated anonymously, and Borrelli declined Monday to disclose the price because the sale must still be approved by the state attorney general's office because of the group's nonprofit status.
Once the transaction is completed, the library -- which has more than 15,000 volumes and an extensive collection of maps, photographs, documents and personal papers of some of the region's best-known conservationists -- will be transferred to the college on permanent loan and managed by Union's Schaffer Library, said David Quinn, the group's treasurer..................>>>>................>>>>...................Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/College-to-buy-historic-home-1351444.php#ixzz1KcmK9ods
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