Grist Mill renovation received a boost recently with grants from Nassau County, the Town of North Hempstead, and the Village of Roslyn, all designed to enhance stabilization projects on both the interior and exterior of the structure, which is located on Old Northern Boulevard.

According to Harrison Hunt, supervisor of Historic Sites for the Nassau County Parks Department, the renovation work will include removing concrete from the west side of the building and covering it with textural plywood. Other projects include removing the "twentieth century" partition from the upper floor of the Grist Mill. Pending specifications by a restoration architect, workers will also remove the modern roofing from the building, both the asphalt roofing and the concrete roofing, the latter of which was constructed in 1916.

The Roslyn Preservation Corporation is sponsoring the architect and the renovation work is being done by E & A, a Long Island-based company, which, according to Hunt, does "careful work" on such aging buildings as the Grist Mill.

Renovation work on the Grist Mill has been under way, in various forms since the late 1990s. Around that time, the project received a large grant from the Nassau County Legislature, one that was cut back substantially when the county's fiscal crisis hit. Since then, the project has relied on modest grants from the same sources that subsidized the current project, plus those from the state government in Albany.