BANGOR – Members of the city’s historic preservation commission voted 4-1 Thursday to recommend that the Wing Estate, one of two historic properties on State Street owned by Eastern Maine Medical Center, be designated a local historic landmark.

The nearly 200-year-old house is one of only four remaining Gothic Revival-style houses in Bangor that are in good enough condition to warrant the protection that designation as a landmark would provide, according to research by Sara Martin, an architectural historian who serves on the city commission.

Action on the other EMMC property, known locally as the Robinson House, was tabled until July, pending creation of a proposed State Street Historic District. That home was built in the 1930s, but is located on property where the first home in Bangor was believed constructed in 1781.

If approved, the district would encompass several of the stately homes that sit upon the bluff overlooking the hospital’s main campus and the Penobscot River.

The district likely would run from the Wing Estate almost to Cascade Park, according to Sara Martin and Jeremy Martin of the city’s code enforcement division.

The panel’s decision Thursday night to recommend that the City Council list the Wing Estate as a city historic landmark ran contrary to the hospital’s wishes.

During the meeting, Patrick Taber, EMMC’s construction project manager, asked the commission to table both applications out of concern that designation as historic landmarks could mean the loss “of an option or two for preserving the buildings and that’s our priority.”

In a status report regarding the hospital’s plans for the two buildings, Taber said that members of the State Street Neighborhood Work Group, convened by EMMC after people in the community rallied to rescue the structures, had recommended that the Robinson property, located at 424 State St., be sold and that the Wing Estate be sold or leased to a developer, preferably one willing to renovate it at its current location.

The hospital also could give or sell the Wing Estate to someone who wants to relocate the house, but some members fear a move would harm its structural integrity, according to a press release issued Tuesday by the hospital.

The EMMC working group will continue exploring options for that property when it next meets on Jan. 22.