St. Joe's is on there.

The latest edition of the Historic Albany Foundation's endangered building list is out. It includes more than 20 historic properties and places the org says "suffer from vacancy and disinvestment or inappropriate development pressure, and are often potential targets for emergency demolition."

HAF releases this list every five years. It says the list is an effort to raise awareness and help find solutions for reuse and preservation.

This time around it's grouped the properties into categories. You'll definitely recognize some of the buildings -- and there might be a few others you didn't even know were there.

Here's a quick overview, along with the list.

Categories

+ Vacant religious properties: Most of these are vacant churches that have struggled to find new uses. Example: St. Joseph's in Arbor Hill.

+ Zombie buildings: These are properties that are vacant or unmaintained and seemed to be stuck, in either foreclosure or some state of neglect. Example: 558 Madison Ave (on the corner at New Scotland Ave) -- the building that was once an ice cream parlor.

+ Underutilized municipal buildings: "This theme represents municipal buildings that once served the community and represented public investment and civic pride, but have since fallen into disservice and are unoccupied." Example: Public Bath No. 2 in the South End.

+ Historic commercial districts: HAF identifies both the Warehouse District and Central Ave as historic commercial districts "threatened by inappropriate development which would destroy much of their character" -- advocates for them to be listed as historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places, which could bring rehabilitation tax credits.

+ Rapp Road Historic District: "The Rapp Road settlement is an excellent example of a priceless cultural and architectural resource in the Capital Region, representing a once thriving African American farming community of the mid-20th Century adjacent to the Pine Bush Preserve. Today the site is faced with the threat of outside development, and while already listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a local nomination would protect this precious resources and its unique ecosystem." (Here's more about the history of the neighborhood.)

+ James Hall House: "The Italianate Villa style building, a National Historic Landmark, hidden along the western edge of Lincoln Park was designed for geologist James Hall in 1852 by prominent American architects Andrew Jackson Downing and his student Calvert Vaux. ... Each year the building remains vacant, it will continue to fall deeper into disrepair and is an example of an underutilized resource that is significant at both the local and national level for its architectural and cultural significance."

List and map

These places are mapped above in large format -- click or scroll all the way up.

Vacant religious properties

St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church - 38 Ten Broeck Street

Herkimer Street Synagogue - 94 Herkimer Street

German Evangelical Church - 82 Clinton Street

St. John's Roman Catholic Church - 142 Green Street

Mount Olive Baptist Church - 226 Northe Pearl Street

Church of the Holy Innocents - 275 North Pearl Street

Krumkill Road Cemetery - Krumkill Road and Bender Ave

Zombie properties

161 Eagle Street

558 Madison Avenue

62 Spring Street

274 New Scotland Avenue

49 Park Avenue

114 Fourth Avenue

Underutilized municipal buildings

Public School 22 - 292 Second Street

Third Police Precinct - 222 North Pearl Street

Bath House No. 2 - 90 Fourth Avenue

Public School 17 - 43 Second Avenue

Central Fire Alarm Station - 25 Delaware Avenue

Historic commercial districts

Warehouse District

Central Avenue business corridor

Rapp Road Historic District

Rapp Road Historic District

31 Rapp Road

54 Rapp Road

59 Rapp Road

Rapp Road Smoke House

Rapp Road community

Rapp Road ecosystem

James Hall House

James Hall House - Lincoln Park

List PDF

HAF 2015 Endangered List