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New York Landmarks 

Conservancy 

newsletter 

Winter 2006

in this issue 

News & Notes 

Presentations and Celebrations • page 2 

Landmark Victories and Losses • page 4 

Special Reports 

Editorial: “It Was the Worst of Times” • page 6 

Reviewing Easements • page 8 

Program Updates 

Advocating for Churches • page 9 

Supporting Restorations • 

page 11 

The Tugboat Pegasus • 

page 12 

Cover Story: St. Edward the Martyr • 

page 14 

Events 

Living Landmarks 2005 • 

page 16 

Young Landmarks and Fall Tours • 

page 18 

Professional Circle • 

page 19 

Inside the Conservancy • 

page 28 

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from the president 

Dear Friends, 

New York is our focus, of course, and this 

newsletter is full of the preservation challenges, 

victories, and losses we have dealt with 

recently. 

But the devastation caused by Hurricane 

Katrina presents the greatest preservation 

challenge this country has faced. And we are 

glad we could offer some help to our sister 

organization, the Preservation Resource Center 

of New Orleans. 

PRC is about the same age and size as the 

Conservancy. And I have gotten to know its director, Patty Gay, through 

national preservation meetings. Like us, PRC’s programs physically restore 

buildings. They had bought, restored, and sold numerous buildings in 

the now-devastated Lower Ninth Ward, for instance. Currently, they are 

offering advice and equipment to homeowners trying to clean, restore, and 

re-inhabit their residences. And they are working to ensure that officials 

recognize and assist buildings that can be preserved. 

The first thing we did after the hurricane is send PRC a check from our 

Endangered Buildings Fund. While Patty got back to her home relatively 

quickly, the PRC staff was scattered around the country, and their normal 

fundraising was totally disrupted. Then we helped the National Trust 

for Historic Preservation identify expert volunteers who could evaluate 

damaged historic structures. The Trust has since sent volunteer teams to 

Louisiana and Mississippi. 

Most recently, we co-sponsored a January 12 fundraiser for PRC, 

securing free space for the event at The Museum of the City of New York 

and getting Kitty Carlisle Hart, a “Living Landmark” and New Orleans 

native, to be the honorary chair. The Museum and Conservancy also 

sponsored a talk by Patty Gay the evening before the gala. 

Throughout this, our website has kept people up-to-date on preservation 

news from New Orleans and federal proposals for post-hurricane 

assistance. 

Katrina’s devastation is a painful reminder that historic buildings 

provide a city’s character, sense of history, and personal sense of place. We 

will continue to try and assist PRC, and we will also maintain our efforts 

to protect what New York is blessed with—the greatest collection of 

historic architecture in the country. 

Sincerely, 

Peg Breen 

President 

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news & notes 

Preserving a Picasso 

The Conservancy received an unusual gift in 

mid-December: a large theater curtain, painted 

on canvas by Pablo Picasso in 1919. It hangs in 

the entrance hall to the Four Seasons Restaurant 

within the Seagram Building, both designated 

City landmarks. The curtain was created for a 

ballet, “The Three-Cornered Hat,” staged in 

Spain by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev, 

who had retained Picasso to design the sets and costumes. 

The late architect Philip Johnson, who designed the restaurant in 1959, 

was instrumental in selecting the work for the space. The donation was 

made by the Vivendi Universal Corporation with the cooperation of Edgar 

Bronfman, Jr., principal owner of the restaurant, and Aby Rosen of RFR 

Realty, owner of the Seagram Building. 

The Conservancy already owns and cares for two modern sculptures 

created by artist Richard Lippold, which hang from the restaurant’s Grill 

Room ceiling. Although integral to the landmarked spaces, works of art are 

moveable and cannot be classified as landmark features or be protected 

under the City’s Landmarks Law. In return for the honor of these gifts, 

we are dedicated to their care and to assuring that they remain in their 

landmarked home. 

Presenting at 

International Symposium 

In October, Sacred Sites Director Ann-Isabel Friedman participated in an 

international symposium in Montreal, What Future for Which Churches 

(Quel avenir pour quelles églises). Co-sponsored by the Quebec Religious 

Heritage Foundation, the Heritage Council of Montreal, the University of 

Quebec in Montreal, and Concordia University, the symposium brought 

together historians, architects, conservators, urban planners, preservation 

advocates, and heritage tourism officials from academic, public, and private 

institutions and organizations to discuss the future of redundant religious 

structures throughout North America and Europe. 

Friedman’s presentation, “Real Estate vs. Religion: Can New York’s 

Historic Houses of Worship Withstand the Hot Real Estate Market” was 

part of a panel on the challenges facing US religious heritage. 

New Online 

The Conservancy has launched online our Restoration Directory, 

formerly a print publication. This directory of New York firms 

specializing in historic preservation is searchable by expertise and 

region. A $25 subscription gives you access to the Directory for three 

years. Learn more at http://www.nylandmarks.org/publications.php 

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news & notes 

Marking a Milestone 

Community members celebrated major 

exterior renovations to St. Sava Serbian 

Orthodox church. Front row: (left to 

right) Very Rev. Fr. Toma Stojsic, His 

Grace Bishop Dr. Mitrofan, and Sen. 

Liz Krueger. Second row: (left to right) 

Rev. Fr. Zivko Velimirovic, Rev. Fr. 

Djokan Majstorovic, Mira Luna, Dr. 

Zorka Milich, and the Conservancy’s 

Sacred Sites Director Ann Friedman 

The Conservancy helped celebrate the completion of $2.5 million in exterior 

restoration work to the 155-year-old Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. 

Sava on West 26th Street, just west of Broadway. Designed by Richard M. 

Upjohn as an uptown chapel of Trinity Church, the magnificent Gothic 

Revival Cathedral is a New York City Landmark. It has been the mother 

church of the Serbian Orthodox community in North America, serving as 

both a spiritual home and community center for successive waves of 

Serbian immigrants to the metropolitan region for over sixty years. 

The Conservancy has helped St. Sava with several grants and loans 

since 1990, totaling nearly $600,000. Fifteen years in the planning, the 

completed exterior work includes a new patterned slate roof, copper roof 

trim and drainage system, and repairs to brownstone facades and projecting 

masonry cupolas and spires. A September 28th ceremony marked the 

completed work, attracting prominent supporters and garnering a cover 

story in the New York Resident. 

New Consulting Grants 

An offshoot of the Upper Manhattan Historic Preservation Fund 

(UMHPF), the E-Z Consulting Grants Program will provide matching 

grants for technical assistance to historic houses of worship in the 

Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (E-Z). Over the past six years, 

UMHPF has financed restoration work on 30 projects, including 29 

religious properties, through grants and loans to congregations. Now, 

via loan repayments to the Fund, matching grants of up to $10,000 

will be provided to engage architects, engineers, or other preservation 

professionals to: troubleshoot or visit a site to investigate a particular 

problem and issue a short report; prepare a brief conditions survey or 

preliminary assessment of building conditions, focusing on the exterior 

envelope and structural systems; and/or prepare a conditions survey 

and construction documents, including plans, specifications, and bid 

documents geared toward implementing the recommendations of the 

conditions survey. 

For more information, please contact the Conservancy’s Sacred 

Sites staff at (212) 995-5260 x26 or email emctigue@nylandmarks.org 

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news & notes 

Landmark Victories 

The Conservancy’s testimony before the New 

York City Landmarks Preservation 

Commission, and advocacy alongside our 

peers, helped achieve several victories during 

the summer and fall of 2005. 

The Windermere apartment building on Ninth Avenue at West 57th 

Street received landmark designation in early June. Built in 1881, the 

Windermere was the first place in Manhattan to offer residences for independent, 

single women. It is also the second-oldest large apartment building 

in all the boroughs. We have pursued this designation since 1998 in an 

effort to assure that this endangered building be restored and reused appropriately. 

The same month, the Commission designated 

67 Greenwich Street, also known as the 

Robert and Anne Dickey House. Remarkably, 

this case was first heard by the Commission 

in 1965—its first year of existence—but the 

Commission did not move to designate it 

then. This 204 year-old building is one of 

thirteen Federal-era rowhouses, built between 

1800 and 1830, which we and the Greenwich 

Village Society for Historic Preservation have 

championed for designation. Despite defacing 

alterations, this rare survivor could be 

restored to its historic appearance. 

The Commission designated both the 

Windermere and 67 Greenwich over the substantial and vocal opposition 

of their owners. And the City Council sustained both designations, marking 

two clear victories for the public interest. 

In July, all of the significant interior spaces in the Plaza Hotel were designated 

as interior landmarks. The Commission acted unanimously on both 

the designation and the hotel owner/developer’s proposal to replicate the 

historic, leaded-glass laylight in the Palm Court. However, despite the 

Conservancy’s dissent, a majority of the Commissioners also voted to pave 

the way for zoning waivers that will facilitate the conversion of much of 

the hotel’s lower floors to retail uses. They acted on the retail approval 

without seeing any specific plans from the owner. 

Most recently in early November, our testimony 

urged the Commission to spare from 

demolition 16 West 18th Street, a former stable 

in the Ladies’ Mile Historic District. Built 

in 1867, the two-story building was to be 

replaced by a much larger new building under 

recently revised zoning intended solely to 

redevelop vacant lots. The Commission again 

sustained the important principle of preserving 

contributing buildings in historic districts. 

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news & notes 

...and Losses 

After a heated battle that drew volumes of international support for its 

landmarking, the dismantling of the façade of 2 Columbus Circle, 

Huntington Hartford’s former Gallery of Modern Art, has begun. This 

irrevocable step marks the end of a protracted preservation battle led by 

Landmark West!, the local group which has advocated for the creation and 

protection of the historic resources of Manhattan’s Upper West Side for 

two decades. 

In September, Landmark West! lost the last of its legal challenges to the 

sale of the property by the City and its redevelopment by the Museum of 

Art and Design. Throughout the nine-year battle, a broad coalition of 

preservationists, including the Conservancy, repeatedly called upon the 

Commission to hold a public hearing and debate the merits of landmarking 

this 1964 work by internationally renowned architect Edward Durrell 

Stone. But the Commission, led by three different Chairpersons under 

two Mayors, steadfastly declined to do so. During this period, the city was 

seeking to sell the building and was adverse to it being landmarked. 

This fall, the City Council rejected two landmark designations: the 

Elmhurst Branch of the Jamaica Savings Bank in Queens, designed by 

architect William Caan in 1969; and the Austin Nichols & Company 

Warehouse on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn, designed by 

architect Cass Gilbert in 1913. Such action by the Council is rare: it has 

only occurred five times before, since 1991. 

While the bank was not in the same architectural category as the 

warehouse, the Conservancy supported widespread community efforts to 

encourage the City Council to sustain both designations. The owners of 

these two commercial buildings were strongly opposed to designation and 

retained teams of attorneys and expert witnesses to plead their cases. 

Historic Properties Fund Recapitalized 

A seven-year campaign has recapitalized the Historic Properties Fund 

(HPF), raising almost $3.4 million in a combination of direct grants, 

program-related investments by banking institutions, and funds for 

the Brendon Gill Endowment. 

At the outset of this initiative in 1998, The LuEsther T. Mertz 

Charitable Trust and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation committed a 

matching grant of $625,000 toward a new endowment named after 

Brendan Gill, one of the founders, former chairmen, and steadfast 

supporter of the Conservancy. Income from the Endowment pays for 

a portion of HPF’s operating costs. 

This past year marked the final drawdown of the challenge grant. 

We raised over $1.4 million in matching funds, with grants larger than 

$100,000 from the Altman Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst 

Foundation, Ronald S. Lauder, The Overbrook Foundation, The 

Rhodebeck Charitable Trust, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for 

the Visual Arts. 

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special reports 

An Editorial: 

“It Was the Worst of Times...” 

The year 2005 ended with many veteran preservationists feeling that public 

confidence in historic preservation governance in New York City was at its 

lowest ebb in decades. 

Why In the forty years since the passage of its pioneering Landmarks 

Law, the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has made great 

progress in designating, regulating, and protecting historic resources throughout 

the five boroughs. We now can count 1,129 individual landmarks, 105 

interior landmarks, 9 scenic landmarks, and over 23,000 buildings in 83 historic 

districts with 11 extensions. The vast majority of these historic places 

are well cared for and being preserved in an appropriate manner. 

But despite all this good work, public cynicism and distrust about the 

landmarks process is very widespread. Clearly, the long-running saga of 2 

Columbus Circle (see page 5) has taken its toll. The steadfast refusal of the 

Commission to hold a public hearing justly earned the mockery of author 

Tom Wolfe, as well as criticism from the National Trust for Historic 

Preservation, the World Monuments Fund, the editors of the New York 

Times, and noted architect Robert A.M. Stern. 

The fate of the landmark Plaza Hotel made matters worse. While the 

Commission designated the major public rooms, it also approved a special 

permit that amounts to a zoning waver to allow massive new retail uses in 

the building. They did this without details of the architectural changes the 

proposal would entail. 

At mid-year, a critical report by the Women’s City Club highlighted 

many public concerns. These included: questions about the selection and 

compensation of the Chair and Commissioners; the scarcity of landmark 

and district designations, especially 

outside of Manhattan; the lack of a 

robust research and survey capacity in 

the City’s agency; and delays in issuing 

permits. 

This clamor drew the attention of 

two City Councilmembers, Simcha 

Felder (D, Brooklyn), then head of the 

Landmarks Subcommittee, and Bill 

Perkins (D, Manhattan), who chaired 

the Government Operations 

Committee. Both held oversight 

hearings that were well attended 

and passionately argued. 

Surprisingly, the hearings revealed 

far more dissatisfaction among preservationists 

than from the traditional 

opponents of landmarking, such as the 

development community or religious 

groups. Two of the most vocal critics 

of the status quo were former 

“Despite 

all this 

good work, 

public cynicism 

and distrust 

about the 

landmarks 

process 

is very 

widespread.” 

Commissioners, Tony Tung and Gene Norman, as well as many residents of 

historic districts whose homes and historic neighborhoods are safeguarded 

by the very same agency they came to castigate. 

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The debate over the controversial building at 

2 Columbus Circle, whose signature façade is 

already lost to construction, weakened many 

preservationists’ faith in the city landmarks 

governance. 

In the fall, Councilmember 

Perkins introduced legislation 

that was intended to address 

some of the concerns voiced at 

the oversight hearings. 

Initiative #705 of 2005, also 

known as the “Perkins Bill,” 

empowered the City Council, 

by a majority vote, to “direct 

the Landmarks Preservation 

Commission to hold a public 

hearing on a proposed landmark 

designation within sixty 

days of such vote.” However, 

at year’s end, the bill had not 

been acted upon and term 

limits compelled Councilmember 

Perkins to leave office. Councilmember Tony Avella of Queens has 

reintroduced similar legislation in the newly constituted City Council. 

How do we revive public confidence in the landmarking 

process in New York City Here are five suggestions: 

1. Pass an Amended Version of the “Perkins Bill.” Having the Council send 

the Commission a limited number of requests for hearings a few 

times a year will not bury the agency. But it will provide a political 

safety-valve for situations like 2 Columbus Circle, if the 

Commission ignores overwhelming public demand for a hearing. 

2. Increase the Commission’s Budget. The City literally spends more 

annually to perform emergency demolitions than it does on all the 

good work of the Landmark Preservation Commission. Over the 

past twelve years, the agency’s workload has more than doubled, 

while its budget has remained the same. 

3. Beef up the Research and Survey Staffs. The Commission could be more 

pro-active in identifying and documenting prospective landmarks 

and districts if it had the professional staff to do so. This step 

would increase the sluggish pace of designations of landmarks and 

districts—in all five boroughs. 

4. Forge a Better Relationship with the City Council. By City Charter, the 

Council has a very important role to play in the land use and 

landmarking process. It confirms the appointments of 

Commissioners and can overturn landmark designations or 

modify district boundaries. The Commission and preservationists 

should renew their efforts to develop a sound working relationship 

with the Council. 

5. Pay the Commissioners. Ten Commissioners receive no compensation 

for their extensive labors on behalf of preserving our City. It 

is time for their voluntary contributions to be recognized and 

rewarded with a reasonable per diem, just as the equally hardworking 

members of the City Planning Commission receive. 

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Reviewing 

Preservation Easements 

2005 was a pivotal year for preservation easements. At the beginning of the 

year it appeared that the U.S. Senate was set to virtually gut the preservation 

easements program, following newspaper articles that questioned the 

practices of certain groups promoting tax deductions through the donation 

of land conservation easements and facade easements. But by the year’s 

end, Congress instead proposed a set of reforms in both the Senate and the 

House’s Tax Relief Act of 2005, which would target abuses while maintaining 

this important preservation tool. If these changes become law, they 

would constitute the first major reforms in this area in twenty-five years. 

The proposed reforms follow Congressional hearings on easements, 

where the Conservancy testified in July, as well as a lobbying campaign, led 

by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Landmarks 

Preservation Council of Illinois, which explained the benefits of preservation 

easements and offered suggestions on eliminating isolated abuses. 

The bills now under consideration specifically disallow deductions both 

for “façade easements” that do not protect the entire exterior of a building 

and for easements that would allow owners to make changes that would be 

inconsistent with the building’s historic character. It also significantly 

strengthens appraisal standards. It increases penalties for overvaluations, 

and it requires owners to pay a $500 filing fee with the IRS in order to 

claim a charitable deduction for an easement on a building in an historic 

district that exceeds the greater of 3% of the fair market value of the 

building or $10,000. 

These reforms reflect the fact that lawmakers agree that preservation 

easements can be an extremely effective preservation tool if the agreement 

is properly written and its provisions enforced. Cyclical inspections, 

conducted by the easement holding group, ensure that any deterioration 

affecting the structure’s roof and facades is identified. The easement 

agreement binds the owner to address the problems in a timely basis. This 

type of pro-active preservation commitment goes well beyond most local 

landmark regulations. In localities where no local landmark regulations 

exist, preservation easements can be the only effective way of protecting 

State and National Register properties. 

The Conservancy’s easements already 

address the Congressional proposals. 

The Conservancy currently holds 36 

preservation easements. In 2005 we 

accepted five new easements from 

individual owners: 

• 140 Amity Street, Brooklyn 

• 131 East 65th Street, Manhattan 



• 8 Thomas Street, Manhattan 

48 East 68th Street 

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program updates 

Protecting Mother Seton 

Over the past five years, the Conservancy’s Sacred Sites program has been 

working with Father Peter Meehan of Our Lady of the Rosary Church for 

the St. Elizabeth Seton Shrine, also known as Mother Seton. We have been 

guiding a comprehensive conditions survey and roof restoration for its rectory, 

the Watson House. Currently, we are advocating for the Church as it’s 

facing damage from nearby MTA construction. 

Located at 7 State Street, the Watson House is both an individual New 

York City Landmark and listed on the National Register. Constructed in 

two phases the eastern two bays in 1793 and the western portion in 1806, 

it is a rare surviving high style Federal residential building of this Period. 

Three priests live at the Watson House, while St. Elizabeth Shrine at 17 

State Street serves a small commuter congregation of a little over 100. 

The MTA construction at the South Ferry Station, located directly 

across State Street, has affected air quality, raised noise control, and caused 

movement to the fragile historic rectory. Dust from the construction has 

impacted the buildings’ materials, roof drainage, and HVAC system. An 

environmental impact study written prior to construction clearly indicated 

that the construction activities would affect Mother Seton’s buildings. 

Father Meehan turned to the Conservancy when he was getting little 

response from the contractor and MTA regarding the construction. In early 

November, our Technical Services Center staff had several discussions with 

the MTA, Community Board 1, the Lower Manhattan Construction 

Command Center, and the Archdiocese. 

While trying to engage the MTA, the Conservancy contacted Dan 

Barry of the New York Times. His November 16, 2005 article, 

“Jackhammers Shake a Refuge for the Weary,” conveyed our concerns. 

Most recently, we met with representatives of the MTA and the 

Archdiocese detailing specific problems we’ve observed. This allowed the 

Archdiocese to file a claim for damages. We are continuing our efforts to 

obtain proper monitoring for these fragile historic buildings. 

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Saving Catholic Churches 

Over the past fourteen months, the Roman 

Catholic Archdiocese has reactivated a survey 

and evaluation process for its parishes in 

Manhattan, Staten Island, and the northern 

suburbs. Termed “realignment” by the 

Diocese, this formal process is expected to 

result in recommendations for specific parish 

consolidation, closure, and redevelopment, 

similar to the process carried out in Boston 

and other dioceses throughout the U.S. over 

the past several years. Over the past two 

years, the Conservancy has been particularly 

involved in the fight to preserve St. Brigid’s 

on Tompkins Square Park and St. Thomas the Apostle in Harlem, although 

both were closed before the realignment process was formally launched. 

St. Brigid’s, attributed to Patrick Keeley, is the oldest surviving Irishimmigrant 

built church in New York City and one of the city’s earliest 

Gothic Revival churches. The 1848 building features a relatively simple 

exterior, but a soaring, vaulted sanctuary interior. 

Shortly after the church closed in 2004, a coalition of neighborhood 

residents, former parishioners, and Irish-American New Yorkers formed 

“Save St. Brigid’s.” Meeting regularly under the umbrella of a neighborhood 

advocacy group, the East Village Community Coalition, “Save 

St. Brigid’s” has held rallies and fundraisers, established the website 

www.savestbrigid.com, and obtained a temporary legal injunction to 

forestall demolition. Currently, the group is pursuing an appeal. 

Throughout 2005, the Conservancy advised the coalition working 

to save this East Village treasure. Their efforts have gained momentum 

thanks to media both here and abroad, including the Daily News, the Irish 

Echo, the Irish Times, the New York Times, Preservation Online, and the 

Villager, as well as a segment on public television’s “Out of Ireland.” 

The Archdiocese has not yet publicly announced specific plans for the 

redevelopment of the church site. 

Uptown, the Conservancy has been 

working with community advocates to save 

St. Thomas the Apostle Church, which was 

designed by acclaimed ecclesiastical architect 

Thomas H. Poole. In 2004, the Archdiocese 

announced plans to demolish the church to 

construct affordable senior housing and in 

preparation for demolition, began removing 

St. Thomas’ intricate terra cotta pinnacles. 

Since then, the Conservancy has lobbied 

alongside neighborhood advocates to halt 

demolition and identify an appropriate reuse 

for the building. We have also identified a developer willing to save and 

reuse the building. Despite a market-rate offer for the St. Thomas site, the 

Archdiocese has not responded. 

The Conservancy strives to work with the Diocese to preserve these 

and other great historic Catholic churches across the city. 

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Special Support 

Our Technical Services staff recently 

supervised the restoration of a shared, 

continuous cornice on adjacent nineteenth 

century houses at 47 and 47A Willow 

Street in Brooklyn Heights. 47 Willow’s 

owner contacted the Conservancy when 

noticing several pieces of wooden brackets 

lying outside. After a site visit, we selected 

East Woods Restoration as the contractor for the repair and restoration 

work and found that the cornice’s three-foot high, carved brackets were in 

extremely poor condition due to water damage from a faulty gutter. Also 

known as console brackets or consoles, the brackets cantilever out from the 

façade and support the overhang that constitutes the upper part of this 

Italianate style cornice. 

Fortuitously, the owners of both houses agreed to undertake the project 

at the same time. First, the wooden consoles were taken down and pieces 

from several were put together to form one, intact console. This became 

the model from which a mold was taken, using fiber-reinforced resin to 

replicate features with the exact design and elaboration. The other wooden 

portions of the cornice, including the paneled fascia and overhang, were 

repaired in-kind prior to attaching new consoles. The gutter also was 

repaired, and the final step was to prime and re-paint the cornice black, 

returning the cornice to its original 1850’s appearance. 

A New Face for The “Ontarios” 

In Bedford-Stuyvesant, matching buildings 

stand at 99 and 105 Herkimer Street, both 

bearing the name “Ontario” inscribed in 

the brownstone entablatures over their 

entryways. Built in the Renaissance Eclectic 

style, circa 1885–1890, these handsome 

structures occupy a prominent position 

in a streetscape of lower-rise buildings in 

Brooklyn. 

Their owner, the Pratt Area 

Community Council (PACC), completed 

their renovation into 14 units of lowincome 

housing this fall, at a project cost 

of about $1.6 million. A grant of almost 

$41,000 from the City Ventures Fund (CVF) paid for restoration work that 

could not be funded in PACC’s original budget and that significantly added 

to the appearance of the entryways. 

Instead of modern aluminum and glass doors, there are stained and 

paneled solid wood doors with period-appropriate glass. Other grant work 

included careful brownstone restoration of the decorative work around the 

entrances and the rebuilding of the brownstone stoops. The firm of Curtis 

+ Ginsberg Architects served as project architects for the entire renovation 

and prepared the additional work funded by the CVF grant. 

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Tugging Ahead: Pegasus Returns 

The tug Pegasus is afloat after spending almost two years in dry-dock and 

after receiving almost one-half million dollars of structural and other 

restoration work. A 3% interest loan of $200,000 and $20,000 matching 

grant from the Conservancy’s Historic Properties Fund provided critical 

financing for this unusual project. 

A Symbol of the Harbor 

Pegasus was originally built for Standard Oil in 1907 to serve the company’s 

substantial refinery operations in the New York-New Jersey region. 

Built with riveted steel hulls—about 100 feet in length, 23 feet in width, and 

12 feet in depth—they were powered by 650-horsepower steam engines. 

In 1953, McAllister Brothers Towing Company purchased the vessel 

and converted its engine to a modern 900 horsepower diesel engine. It continued 

to serve the businesses of New York harbor for the next four decades. 

A licensed tugboat captain, Pamela Hepburn, purchased the tug for 

$25,000 in 1987 and renamed it the Pegasus, Standard Oil’s original flying 

horse symbol. She used Pegasus for a towing business until retiring the tug 

in 1997. 

A Vessel for History 

Captain Hepburn envisioned transforming Pegasus into a living museum of 

harbor and tugboat history that could teach the basics of navigating, operating, 

and maintaining a vessel. To do so, she formed the nonprofit Tug 

Pegasus Preservation Project (TPPP) in 2000 and two years later donated 

the boat to the organization, for which she serves as executive director. 

This same year, 2002, Pegasus won its listing on the National Register 

of Historic Places for its part in New York harbor history and the history 

of Standard Oil and for its significance in two areas of 20th century technology: 

the bridge between steam and diesel propulsion and the change 

from rivet to welding construction. In the New York Harbor, fewer than 

a dozen vessels can boast National Register status. 

With Chelsea Piers donating docking space, TPPP began to collaborate 

with the Police Athletic League and other nonprofit organizations on 

programs that realized Hepburn’s vision of Pegasus serving as a nautical 

museum and learning facility for youth. 

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to the New York Harbor 

A range of educational programs reached new audiences every summer, 

and teens even received training to be docents for younger audiences. 

But in late 2003, Pegasus began to show her age and went to a shipyard 

for critically needed work. 

A Dedicated Restoration 

With Pegasus on land and only partially repaired, Hepburn contacted the 

Conservancy in fall 2004. The Conservancy suggested a low-interest loan 

from the Historic Properties Fund to match a $150,000 grant TPPP had 

secured from the State’s Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic 

Preservation. This would greatly accelerate the restoration schedule. 

To collateralize the Fund loan, Hepburn refinanced her condominium 

apartment and placed a portion of the proceeds in an account at Community 

Capital Bank, assigned to the Fund as security for a loan of up to 

$200,000. The Fund loan closed in March, 2005. 

Conservancy staff also helped the project obtain a grant commitment 

from The New York Community Trust for $32,000 toward the restoration 

work’s related professional costs. This award moved TPPP significantly 

toward matching the $20,000, 2:1 challenge grant authorized by the 

Historic Properties Fund board in conjunction with its loan—a first for the 

Fund in terms of a matching structure. Obtaining additional smaller grants, 

the project had secured a total of approximately $415,000 for the work. 

With the past work paid off by Fund loan proceeds, restoration of 

Pegasus resumed in April, 2005. Rotted from decades of seafaring, great 

sections of riveted steel were removed and replaced. Marine consultant 

Charles DeRoko helped retain the sound portions of the original fabric, but 

unforeseen deterioration required more steelwork than planned. To offset 

these costs, new windows and woodwork slated for the wheelhouse were 

deferred. The engine and propeller were reconditioned by September. 

At last, with a newly painted hull but half-finished wheelhouse, 

Pegasus set sail in October and returned to its berth at the Chelsea Piers. 

Notably, Pegasus retains many original features, including a finely molded 

plate hull to a deckhouse with period finishes and fittings such as quarter 

sawn oak paneling and bronze portholes, a galley with an oil-fired stove, 

and other wainscoting and paneling throughout. She will assume her role 

as a museum and educational facility for New Yorkers to enjoy in spring 

2006 and will celebrate her centennial in 2007. 

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A Warm Welcome: The Church 

The Conservancy’s Upper Manhattan Historic Preservation Fund (UMHPF) 

recently helped recreate the entrance of Church of St. Edward the Martyr, 

whose history is as diverse as the congregation it serves. 

A Historic Jewelbox 

On St. Edward’s Day, March 

18, 1883, a recently 

ordained minister, Father 

Edward Wallace-Neil, 

established a mission in the 

parlor of his house at 181 

East 109th Street. He next 

purchased land nearby and 

began plans for a new building 

at 14 East 109th Street. 

The Church of St. Edward 

the Martyr opened there in 

1887 and held its first mass 

in a full Anglo-Catholic 

ceremony. The next year, 

the Church applied for 

admission to the Protestant 

Episcopal Diocese of New 

York and remains a member 

church today. 

c. 1887 

The Church soon attracted wealthy and prominent families, including 

Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry, a criminal lawyer and president of the New 

York Yacht Club who served as senior warden from 1888 until 1927. 

Commodore Gerry oversaw the addition of a chancel in 1904 by architect 

J. B. Snook & Sons, with an overall interior renovation by ecclesiastical 

design specialist Charles R. Lamb. In the sanctuary and new chancel, Lamb 

included rich decoration and furnishings, using stained glass, mosaic, 

marble, and metal work. Only 25 by 100 feet, the small Church became 

a jewelbox setting for High Anglican worship. 

Changing Times and Architecture 

Shortly after the turn of the 19th century, new tenement buildings filled 

with German, Irish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants replaced the farms 

around the Church. St. Edward’s congregation changed, too. By the 1920’s, 

its high liturgy attracted West Indians, who remain a large portion of the 

congregation today. By the 1950’s, the neighborhood’s Hispanic population 

outnumbered all other groups, and ever since, the Church has served both 

English-speaking and Spanish-speaking congregations. 

The Church totally removed an early 20th century addition vestibule, 

around 1960. Instead of using the front for access, they chose to remove 

the entry doors and fill in the peaked opening with concrete block so that 

people entered through a side door. This provided physical security at the 

cost of separating the church from the public, despite a mural painted on 

the concrete block reading “All Are Welcome Bienvenidos.” 

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of St. Edward the Martyr 

An Inviting Entry 

A grant of $100,000 from UMHPF 

afforded the Church a two-fold opportunity: 

to remove the concrete block and 

install entry doors in the opening and to 

erect an interior vestibule to provide 

weather protection. 

The project was awarded to the 

design firm of Lichten Craig Architects, 

whose specialties include master 

planning and historic preservation for 

religious properties. Principal architect 

Kevin Lichten drew on elements derived 

from the only early extant photograph 

of the Church—a blurred picture circa 

1887—and his own knowledge of ecclesiastical 

architecture. Unexpectedly, the 

original general contractor could not 

complete the project, but Conservancy 

staff, architect Lichten and his firm, and 

the Church persevered toward a successful 

resolution with a new contractor. 

After three years of restoration and 

new construction work, the Church now 

has an entrance to be proud of. A new 

sandstone-clad stoop with railing leads up to two, large, oak-panel doors 

with decorative metal straps. In the fixed Gothic-arched transom above 

the doorway hang three stained-glass panes created by The Gil Studio; two 

are based on a geometric motif from other stained-glass windows in the 

sanctuary and flank a central rondel with a liturgical theme. The congregation 

not only specially commissioned and underwrote the rondel but also 

refurbished the sanctuary and chancel with its own funds. Framed in oak 

with large, clear-glass sections, the outer entry doors, when sprung open, 

partially reveal the interior to the street—a significant change from earlier 

entrances that will welcome the community for decades to come. 

Special Thanks 

A dedicated team achieved the restoration work at the Church of St. 

Edward the Martyr. In addition to the extraordinary work of Kevin Lichten 

and his firm and the Gil Studio, special thanks to: R. D. Wright, Inc., the 

contractor which finished the project; to the Episcopal Diocese of New 

York, which provided a $10,000 grant to close a budget gap at the end of 

the project; and to the Rector, The Reverend Dr. Adam D. McCoy, OHC, 

Vestry, and the staff and congregation, who all demonstrated great patience 

and care during the restoration process. 

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events 

Living Landmarks Celebration 

Almost 500 guests joined us at Cipriani 42nd Street on November 2 to help 

raise over $675,000 and celebrate our newest group of Living Landmarks: 

• Pete Hamill 

• Elizabeth Rohatyn 

• Martin E. Segal 

• Sir Howard Stringer 

• Barbara Walters 

• Edward I. Koch, Lew Rudin Award for Outstanding Public Service 

1 

Landmark Liz Smith hosted the gala, 

and Landmark Peter Duchin and 

his orchestra played. Conservancy 

Board member Mimi Levitt generously 

underwrote the evening’s flowers and 

décor. Sotheby’s International Realty 

sponsored the video presentation, 

Cartier once again provided the 

engraved awards, and Boardmember 

Elizabeth Stribling underwrote 

the gala’s gift bags. 

2 

1. Host Liz Smith and the 2005 

Living Landmarks 2. Susan 

Henshaw Jones, Mildred Brinn, 

and Reverend William Tully 

3 

3. Gillian and Sylvester Miniter 

4. Hilary and Clark Halstead 

5. Bishop E. Don Taylor and Michael Rebic 6. Jack Kerr, 

Marla Sabo, and Marc Schappell 7. Stuart and Sue Feld 

8. Kitty Carlisle Hart and Martin and Edith Segal 

9. Peg Breen, Arnold Scaasi, and Parker Ladd 10. Mimi 

Levitt and Francois and Helen Verglas 11. Susan Cullman, 

Stephen Lash, and Wendy Lehman Lash 

5 

4 

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events 

6 7 

8 9 

10 11 

Living Landmarks Reunion 

Landmark Elaine Kaufman hosted the gala 

reunion/kick-off party at her legendary 

restaurant. Over 85 people joined the 

Conservancy in welcoming our newest Living 

Landmarks—including Elizabeth Rohatyn 

and Marty Segal in attendance—as well as 

returning Landmarks Helen Gurley Brown 

and David Brown, Walter Cronkite, Vartan 

Gregorian, Ahmet Ertegun, Ray Kelly, Dr. 

Mathilde Krim, and Mary McFadden. 

1 

2 3 4 

5 

1. Elaine Kaufman 2. Helen Gurley 

Brown, Marian Heiskell, and Elizabeth 

Rohatyn 3. Irving and Patricia Marand 

Salem 4. Mathilde Krim and Walter 

Cronkite 5. Mary McFadden and 

Mica Ertegun 

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events 

Young Landmarks 

More than 400 stylish young New 

Yorkers gathered on the Lever 

House Terrace on June 2 for our 

first Young Landmarks Celebration. 

Spearheaded by Boardmember 

Farran Tozer Brown, the event 

aimed to build awareness of New 

York’s “young” landmark buildings. 

Throughout the space, specially 

designed posters highlighted several 

of the City’s modernist treasures 

including Lincoln Center, the 

Whitney Museum, the TWA terminal 

at Kennedy Airport, the New York State Pavilion from the 1964 

World’s Fair, and, of course, Lever House. The posters, as well as the 

stylish Young Landmarks invitation, were created by Side Designs. Grey 

Goose, Dewar’s, and Brooklyn Brewery provided liquor, and The Juilliard 

Jazz Ensemble performed. Starwood Preferred Guest, Sergio Rossi, and 

Borghese donated prizes for the benefit drawing. 

Aby Rosen, principal of RFR holdings, owner of Lever House, donated 

the magnificent space for the evening. The Conservancy had presented Mr. 

Rosen with our Chairman’s Award and Lucy G. Moses Award in 2002 for 

the outstanding renovation of the 1953 modernist masterpiece by Gordon 

Bunshaft and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. 

Fall Circle Tours 

Real Estate, Professional, and Conservancy Circle members enjoyed special 

tours of preservation and architectural projects this fall. 

We received an intimate tour of the interior and exterior renovations 

of India House, which had received our Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award 

last year for the extensive restoration of its three brownstone facades. 

Architect Herbert Soloman explained his work on the exterior restoration, 

and India House Club manager Andrew Curtis led the interior tour. The 

Conservancy’s Technical Services Center has provided assistance to India 

House for several years. 

Circle members were treated to hard-hat tours of the construction project 

expanding the J.P. Morgan Library. Arranged by the expansion’s project 

manager, Joseph Mizzi of Sciame Construction, the exclusive, behind-thescenes 

tours were led by architect 

Frank J. Prial, Jr. of Beyer Blinder 

Belle. We viewed the new 280 seat 

auditorium—located five stories 

below ground—as well as Renzo 

Piano’s stunning glass and steel 

spaces that link the three historic 

buildings. We look forward to 

touring the completed expansion 

project next year. 

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professional circle 

Professional Circle 

The Landmarks Conservancy’s Professional Circle is an active group of 

companies and individuals who share our commitment to the preservation 

and revitalization of New York’s historic architecture. Professional members 

are offered many valuable promotional, networking, and educational 

benefits ranging from hard-hat tours of restoration projects to complimentary 

passes to the Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards to listing on the 

Conservancy’s website. 

For more information, or to join, please contact Jen Datka at 

212-995-5260 or jendatka@nylandmarks.org. 

The Conservancy gratefully acknowledges the recent support of the following 

professionals: 

Consultants 

Archeologists 

Cultural Resource Consulting Group 

New York, NY 

212-807-1606 

gdietrich@crcg.net 

www.crcg.net 

Architects 

Acheson Doyle Partners 


212-414-4500 

mdoyle@adparchitects.com 

www.adparchitects.com 

ADG/Architecture & Design Group 

Poughkeepsie, NY 

845-889-8900 

lfiorese@hvc.rr.com 

ADL III Architecture, PC 

Northport, NY 

631-754-4450 

adliiiarch@aol.com 

www.adl3.com 

Alexander Antonelli Architects, PLLC 


212-736-6700 

aa@antarch.com 

www.antarch.com 

Byron Bell Architects and Planners 


212-704-4200 

bl@blarchitects.com 

Jeffrey Berman Architect 


212-967-3400 

jberman@jbarch.com 

www.jbarch.com 

Bero Architecture, PC 

Rochester, NY 

716-262-2035 

bero_arch@hotmail.com 

www.beroarchitecture.com 

Bertolini Architectural Works 


212-244-1232 

obertolini@baworks.net 

www.randbarchitects.com 

Leo J. Blackman Architects 


212-373-1002 

leo@leoblackman.com 

www.leoblackman.com 

Lee Borrero 

Bearsville, NY 

212-924-2380 

jlborrero@aol.com 

Anita Bartholin Brandt Architects 


212-358-1162 

anitabrandt@abbarchitects.com 

www.abbarchitects.com 

Bresnan Architects, PC 


212-371-4578 

Richard Brotherton, AIA 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-834-0313 

r.p.brotherton.71@cantab.net 

Butler Rogers Baskett 


212-792-4600 

cbaskett@brb.com 

www.brb.com 

Leonard Colchamiro 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-638-5442 

lcpcarch@aol.com 

Please note that membership in the Professional Circle is open to all 

companies and individuals paying annual dues and does not constitute 

an endorsement by the Landmarks Conservancy. 

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Diane Olbright Collins 

Somers, NY 

914-248-6613 

dideecoll@optonline.net 

Cook + Fox Architects 


212-477-0287 x209 

info@cookplusfox.com 

www.cookplusfox.com 

Cooper, Robertson & Partners 


212-247-1717 

kcooper@cooperrobertson.com 

www.cooperrobertson.com 

Frederick Cox Architect, PC 


212-865-1865 

fredcox@riversidedesign.org 

Crawford & Stearns, Architects 

Syracuse, NY 

315-471-2162 

CrawfordRT@aol.com 

www.crawfordstearns.com 

Curtis + Ginsberg Architects, LLP 


212-929-4417 

cga@cplusga.com 

www.cplusga.com 

Cutsogeorge Tooman & Allen Architects, PC 


212-243-7404 

dallen@cta-architects-nyc.com 

www.cta-architects-nyc.com 

Lisa Dubin, Architect 


212-249-7551 

archilisa@aol.com 

Edelman Sultan Knox Wood/Architects, LLP 


212-431-4901 

jedelman@edelmansultan.com 

www.edelmansultan.com 

Ehrenkrantaz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects 


212-353-0400 

denis@eekarchitects.com 

www.eekarchitects.com 

Marie Ennis, PE 


917-359-8218 

marie@ennispe.com 

www.ennispe.com 

Fairfax & Sammons Architects, PC 


212-255-0704 

afairfax@fairfaxandsammons.com 

www.fairfaxandsammons.com 

Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, LLC 

Princeton, NJ 

609-452-1777 

michaelm@fmg-arch.com 

Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, LLP 


212-941-8088 

lblock@fergusonshamamian.com 

www.fergusonshamamian.com 

Roger Ferris + Partners LLC 

Westport, CT 

203-222-4848 

ferris@ferrisarch.com 

www.ferrisarch.com 

Franke, Gottsegen, Cox Architects 


212-334-1191 

mgottsegen@fgca.com 

www.fgca.com 

Fuller and D’Angelo, PC 

Elmsford, NY 

914-592-4444 

josephfjr@fullerdangelo.com 

www.fullerdangelo.com 

FX Fowle 


212-627-1700 x200 

bfowle@fxfowle.com 

www.fxfowle.com 

Gertler Wente Kerbeykian Architects 


212-273-9888 

jgertler@gwkarch.com 

www.gwkarch.com 

Glass & Glass, Architects 


212-673-9290 

Ludwig Michael Goldsmith, AIA 


212-779-3595 

info@lmgarchitects.com 

www.lmgarchitects.com 

Goshow Architects, LLP 


212-242-3735 

nag@goshow.com 

www.goshow.com 

Gruzen Samton Planners & Interior Designers, LLP 


212-477-0900 

psamton@gruzensamton.com 

www.gruzensamton.com 

David D. Harlan Architects, LLC 

New Haven, CT 

203-495-8032 

advddh@cttel.net 

www.ddharchitects.com 

Charles H. Henkels, AIA 


212-255-3352 

Henkels.arch@verizon.net 

Scott Henson Architect 


212-995-2464 

scott@hensonarchitect.com 

www.hensonarchitect.com 

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Hoffmann Architects 


212-789-9915 

c.hargrove@hoffarch.com 

www.hoffarch.com 

The Stephen B. Jacobs Group 


212-421-3712 

contactus@sbjgroup.com 

www.sbjgroup.com 

Kaitsen Woo & J. Raible Architects 


212-253-5800 

Kaitsen@aol.com 

www.kaitsenwooarchitect.com 

Marilyn Kaplan Preservation Architecture 

Albany, NY 

518-459-6460 

preservationarchitecture@verizon.net 

The Kibel Companies, LLC 


212-481-5700 

plevenson@kibel.com 

Costas Kondylis & Partners, LLP 


212-725-4655 

mhirsch@kondylis.com 

Scott Koniecko, Architects 


212-620-3924 

skoniecko@aol.com 

Mitchell Kurtz 


212-598-4367 x19 

mitchell@mkapc.com 

www.mkapc.com 

LFA Architects 


212-463-9519 

lfaa@aol.com 

www.lfaarchitects.com 

Li/Saltzman Architects, PC 


212-941-1838 x203 

rozli@lisaltzman.com 

www.lisaltzman.com 

Lichten Craig Architects 


212-229-0200 

lichten@lichtencraig.com 

www.lichtencraig.com 

Douglas J. Lister Architect 


212-924-7685 

doug@djlister.com 

www.djlister.com 

Mancini Duffy 


212-651-6322 

rmancini@manciniduffy.com 

www.manciniduffy.com 

Peter Marino Architect + Assoc. 


212-752-5444 

pmarino@petermarinoarchitect.com 

www.petermarinoarchitect.com 

Walter B. Melvin Architects, LLC 


212-679-9393 

wbma@wbmelvin.com 

www.wbmelvin.com 

Mitropoulos Architects 


212-213-0989 

feeman@ix.netcom.com 

www.mitropoulosarchitects.com 

MJS Design Associates 


212-489-0889 

jcs.mjsdesign@verizon.net 

Craig Morrison, Architect 


212-513-0409 

CraigMM@concentric.net 

Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects 


212-768-7676 

hbuttrick@mbbarch.com 

www.mbbarch.com 

Nelson & Edwards Company Architects 

Branford, CT 

203-481-6611 

necarch@rcn.com 

Neuhaus Design Architecture, PC 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-832-4771 

ksn@neuarch.com 

www.neuarch.com 

Ohlhausen DuBois Architects, PLLC 


212-420-8600 

rolf@boishaus.com 

www.boishaus.com 

Peter Pennoyer Architects, PC 


212-779-9765 

peter@ppapc.com 

www.ppapc.com 

Jean Parker Phifer, AIA 


212-337-0334 

j.phifer@tphifer.com 

www.tphifer.com 

Jan Hird Pokorny Associates, Inc. 


212-759-6462 

medina@jhpokorny.com 

www.jhpokorny.com 

Polshek Partnership Architects 


212-807-7171 

jpolshek@polshek.com 

www.polshek.com 

Lee Harris Pomeroy Associates 


212-334-1648 

leepom@lhparch.com 

www.lhparch.com 

Preservation Design Group 

Blauvelt, NY 

845-365-6832 

preservedesign@aol.com 

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James W. Rhodes, FAIA 

Croton-on-Hudson, NY 

914-271-2155 

jrhodes@preservationdesign.com 

Martin E. Rich, PC 


info@richaia.com 

www.richaia.com 

Rothzeid Kaiserman Thomson & Bee, PC 


212-807-9500 

Reed Rubey, Architect 


212-505-9982 

reedrubey@aol.com 

Scarano and Associates Architects and Builders 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-222-0322 

info@scaranoarchitects.com 

www.scaranoarchitects.com 

G.P. Schafer Architect, PLLC 


212-965-1355 

info@gpschafer.com 

www.gpschafer.com 

Walter Sedovic Architects 

Irvington-on-Hudson, NY 

914-591-1900 x15 

gibrwalter@modernruins.com 

www.modernruins.com 

SKO Architecture, PC 

Flushing, NY 

718-762-5035 

skohannessian@prodigy.net 

SMA Architecture Planning Interiors, PC 

Croton-on-Hudson, NY 

914-271-2712 

smarkowitz@sma-architects.com 

www.sma-architects.com 

Specter DeSouza Architects, PC 


212-724-6600 

dspecter@specterdesouza.com 

www.specterdesouza.com 

Spitzer and Associates Architects 


212-924-7454 

contact@spitzeronline.com 

Swanke Hayden Connell Architects 


212-226-9696 

cole.r@shca.com 

www.shca.com 

TMT Restoration Consultants, Ltd. 


212-579-8989 

tina@tmtrestoration.com 

www.tmtrestoration.com 

Tobin + Parnes Design Enterprises 


212-462-4200 

bparnes@tobinparnes.com 

www.tobinparnes.com 

Tonetti Associates Architects 


212-581-2750 

j_tonetti@tonettiaa.com 

www.tonettiaa.com 

Darius Toraby Architects, PC 


212-242-2955 

dariustoraby@msn.com 

www.dariustoraby.com 

Turett Collaborative Architects 


212-965-1244 

info@turettarch.com 

www.turettarch.com 

Vigneau & Associates Architects, LLC 

Westport, CT 

203-226-0581 

NVigneau@aol.com 

www.vigneauandassociates.com 

John G. Waite Associates Architects, PLLC 

Albany, NY 

518-449-5440 

jwaite@jgwaarchitects.com 

www.jgwaarchitects.com 

Wank Adams Slavin Associates, LLP 


212-420-1160 

ephronh@go2wasa.com 

Linda M. Yowell Architects 


212-929-3737 

lmy@yowellarch.com 

www.yowellarch.com 

Zaskorski & Notaro Architects, AIA, LLP 


212-239-7212 

znarchs@aol.com 

www.znarchs.com 

Attorneys 

Maidman and Mittelman, LLP 


212-755-0500 

richard@maidman.org 

www.thmny.com 

Marcus Rosenberg & Diamond, LLP 


212-755-7500 

dr@realtylaw.org 

Michael A. Kaye, Esq. 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-229-6146 

mkesq@aol.com 

Mariann G. Perseo, Esq. 


212-684-4289 

mperseo@aol.com 

Construction Managers 

Barr & Barr, Inc. 


212-563-2330 

jdecina@barrandbarr.com 

www.barrandbarr.com 

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Bovis Lend Lease, LMB, Inc. 


212-592-6753 

Joan.Gerner@bovislendlease.com 

www.bovislendlease.com 

De Groot Historical Restoration, Inc. 

East Setauket, NY 

631-246-8194 

wdegroot@optonline.net 

www.dghistorical.com 

Denham Wolf Real Estate Services, Inc. 


212-736-6777 

jdenham@denhamwolf.com 

www.denhamwolf.com 

Kenneth D. Levien, AIA 


212-702-8888 

kenl@levienco.com 

www.levienco.com 

Daniel P. Moran 

Greenlawn, NY 

212-283-1051 

danielmoran@hillintl.com 

Seaboard Weatherproofing 

Port Chester, NY 

914-937-5995 

jfiebich@ahearnholtzman.com 

www.seaboardwpr.com 

Van Buren Contractors, Inc. 

Walton, NY 

607-434-0301 

vbci@Hancock.net 

Engineers 

Altieri Sebor Wieber, LLP 

Norwalk, CT 

203-866-5538 

info@altierisw.com 

www.altieriseborwieber.com 

Atkinson Koven Feinberg Engineers 


212-354-5656 

AKFNY@akf-eng.com 

www.akf-engineers.com 

Joseph K. Blum Co., LLP 


212-447-6345 

jim@jkblum.com 

www.jkblum.com 

Eipel Barbieri Marschhausen, LLP 


212-695-5120 

keipel@ebmllp.com 

www.ebmllp.com 

Facade Maintenance Design, PC 


212-560-9292 

rlefever@facademd.com 

www.facademd.com 

Donald Friedman 


917-494-1586 

dfriedman@oldstructures.com 

www.oldstructures.com 

Robert F. Germain, ME, PE 

Mount Vernon, NY 

914-668-7086 

74103.21@compuserve.com 

www.engineer-germain.com 

Gilsanz Murray Steficek, LLP 


ramon.gilsanz@gmsllp.com 

www.gmsllp.com 

Goldman Copeland Associates, PC 


212-868-4660 

mgoldman@goldmancopeland.com 

www.goldmancopeland.com 

Landmark Facilities Group, Inc. 

East Norwalk, CT 

203-866-4626 

econrad@lfginc.com 

www.lfginc.com 

Midtown Preservation, PC 

Oyster Bay, NY 

516-922-6220 

info@midtownpreservation.com 

www.midtownpreservation.com 

Norfast Consulting Group, Inc. 

Long Island City, NY 

718-545-5734 

michellenoris@norfastconsulting.com 

Rand Engineering and Architecture, PC 


212-675-8844 

info@randpc.com 

www.randpc.com 

Leslie E. Robertson Associates, RLLP 


212-750-9000 

dpg@lera.com 

www.lera.com 

Ryan-Biggs Associates, PC 

Troy, NY 

518-272-6266 

dbiggs@ryanbiggs.com 

www.ryanbiggs.com 

Robert Silman Associates, PC 


bob@rsapc.com 

www.rsapc.com 

Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc. 

Waltham, MA 

781-907-9000 

kcash@sgh.com 

www.sgh.com 

Superstructures 


212-505-1133 

pmillman@superstructures.com 

www.superstructures.com 

Weidlinger Associates, Inc. 


212-367-3068 

lee@wai.com www.wai.com 

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Environmental Testing 

& Engineering 

AKRF, Inc. 


646-388-9715 

anne_locke@akrf.com 

www.akrfm.com 

Fundraising 

Holly Kaye 


212-677-5910 

hokaye@aol.com 

Historic Interior Designers 

Bareau Designs 


212-677-0388 

pbareau@aol.com 

Jamie Gibbs & Associates 


212-717-6590 

jamie@jamiegibbsassociates.com 

www.jamiegibbsassociates.com 

Interior Design Solutions 


212-628-3938 

susan@idsny.com 

www.idsny.com 

Mary Knackstedt 


212-262-0752 

Danielle Roberts Interiors 


646-422-0560 

info@daniellerobertsinteriors.com 

Kathryn Scott Design Studio 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-935-0425 

kscott@kathrynscott.com 

www.kathrynscott.com 

Landscape Architecture 

Quennell Rothschild Associates 


212-929-3330 

quennell@qrpartners.com 

www.qrpartners.com 

Photographers 

Walter Dufresne 

Brooklyn, NY 

walter.dufresne@aya.yale.edu 

Trix Rosen 


212-228-8100 

trix@trixrosen.com 

www.trixrosenphotography.com 

Preservation Consultants 

Building Conservation Associates, Inc. 


917-439-9543 

rpepi@bcausa.com 

www.bcausa.com 

Commercial Roofing Solutions, Inc. 

Clifton, NJ 

212-564-0532 

office@roofingsolution.com 

Cultural Resource Consulting Group 


212-807-1606 

gdietrich@crcg.net 

www.crcg.net 

Mary B. Dierickx 


212-227-1271 

mdierickx@mbdierickx.com 

www.mbdierickx.com 

Higgins & Quasebarth 


212-274-9468 

quasebarth@hqpreservation.com 

www.hqpreservation.com 

Jablonski Berkowitz Conservation, Inc. 


212-532-7775 

jberkowitz@jablonskiberkowitz.com 

www.jablonskiberkowitz.com 

Edward Kamper Associates 

West Caldwell, NJ 

973-228-3945 

ekpreservation@nac.net 

LandAir Project Resources 


212-685-9680 

lieth@projectresourcesgroup.com 

www.landairprojectresources.com 

New York City Brickwork Design Center 


212-684-4229 

Norfast Consulting Group, Inc. 


718-545-5734 

michellenoris@norfastconsulting.com 

F.M. Pucci and Associates, Ltd. 


212-769-4485 

fmpa129@aol.com 

William J. Stivale, Jr. 


212-675-5605 

buildingconservator1@prodigy.net 

VDA 

Livingston, NJ 

973-994-9220 

jvd@vdassoc.com 

www.vdassoc.com 

Vertical Access, LLC 

Ithaca, NY 

212-647-1455 

www.vertical-access.com 

Wireless EDGE Consultants, LLC 

New Rochelle, NY 

914-712-0000 

arthur@wirelessedge.org 

www.wirelessedge.com 

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Contractors 

Architectural Metalwork 

M & L Steel Ornamental Iron Corp. 

Staten Island, NY 

718-816-8660 

mlsteelornamental@hotmail.com 

Schwartz’s Forge & Metalworks, Inc. 

Deansboro, NY 

315-841-4477 

jschwartz@schwartzforge.com 

www.schwartzforge.com 

Star Metal Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-384-2766 

starmetalinc@earthlink.net 

www.starmetaldesign.com 

Architectural Woodwork 

Architectural Interior Maintenance, Inc. 

Bronx, NY 

347-728-4224 

sstrauss@langenbacher.us 

East End Wood Strippers 

Holbrook, NY 

631-472-5206 

refinish@optonline.net 

www.refinishny.com 

Fifty Three Restorations, Inc. 


212-566-1053 

vince@bbridge.net 

www.fiftythreerestorations.com 

New Wood Co. 

Bronx, NY 

718-665-5400 

info@newwoodco.com 

www.newwoodco.com 

Premier Restoration Technologies 

Woodside, NY 

718-204-8994 

mark@touch-ups.com 

www.touch-ups.com 

Traditional Line, Ltd. 


212-627-3555 

traditionalline@earthlink.net 

www.traditionalline.com 

The Woodworks Company, Ltd. 

Salt Point, NY 

845-677-3960 

thewoodworks@att.net 

www.woodworkscompany.com 

A/V Control Systems 

Holland & Heim, Inc. 


212-448-1011 

sheim@hollandheim.com 

www.hollandheim.com 

Decorative Finishes 

John Canning & Co., Ltd. 

Cheshire, CT 

203-272-9868 

jcanning@canning-studios.com 

www.canning-studios.com 

Concord Painting, Inc. 

Long Beach, NY 

516-897-5500 

glenn@concordpainting.com 

www.concordpainting.com 

EverGreene Painting Studios, Inc. 


212-244-2800 

designstudio@evergreene.com 

www.evergreene.com 

Holy Land Art Company, Inc. 

Westwood, NJ 

201-666-6604 

tom@holylandartcompany.com 

www.holylandartcompany.com 

Mirage Studios, Ltd. 


718-361-1071 

info@miragefinishes.com 

www.miragefinishes.com 

General Contracting 

All County Restoration, Inc. 


914-668-1888 

allcountyrest@aol.com 

Apple Restoration 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-599-5055 

arwnyjr@netscape.net 

www.applerestoration.com 

Richard Baronio & Associates 


212-868-9056 

richard@rbaronio.com 

www.rbaronio.com 

Brisk Waterproofing Company, Inc. 

Ridgefield, NJ 

201-945-0210 

jamesr@briskwaterproofing.com 

www.briskwaterproofing.com 

Burda Construction Corp. 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-222-3220 

LBjr@burdaconstruction.com 

www.burdaconstruction.com 

Deerpath Construction Corp. 

Union, NJ 

908-964-0408 

renee@deerpath.com 

www.deerpath.com 

DNA Contracting & Waterproofing, LLC 


212-929-3993 

abardolf@dnawaterproofing.com 

www.dnawaterproofing.com 

Franco Remodeling Corp. 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-387-9399 

rich@francorestoration.com 

www.francorestoration.com 

Grand Renovation, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-599-7070 

john@grandrenovation.com 

www.grandrenovation.com 

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Heights Woodworking 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-875-7495 

neil@heightswood.com 

www.heightswood.com 

JMA Consultants, Inc. 

North Bergen, NJ 

201-861-7404 

gene@jmabuildings.com 

www.jmaconsult.com 

Landmark Restoration & Construction Corp. 


718-937-5434 

lndmrkrst1@earthlink.net 

www.landmarkrestoration.biz 

Manhattan Brownstone 


212-226-0339 

jackpontes@jpontes.com 

www.jpontes.com 

Charles Miles Construction Corp. 


212-929-9153 

charles@charlesmiles.com 

www.charlesmiles.com 

Nicholson & Galloway, Inc. 

Glen Head, NY 

212-685-6677 

tomc@nicholsonandgalloway.com 

www.nicholsonandgalloway.com 

Pro So Co, Inc. 

East Brunswick, NJ 

732-390-1490 

The Residential Interiors Corporation 


212-239-6860 

arthur@resintcorp.com 

Robinson Contracting Co. 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-604-1643 

john.robinson@verizon.net 

Sieg Design & Construction Assoc., Inc. 

Stamford, CT 

203-322-1433 

Taconic Builders, Inc. 

Mamaroneck, NY 

914-698-7456 

gholbrook@taconicbuilders.com 

www.taconicbuilders.com 

Triboro Company 

Astoria, NY 

718-721-6742 

triborocompany@aol.com 

Uberto, Ltd. 


212-874-4100 

pcrosby@ubertoltd.com 

www.ubertoltd.com 

Universal Builders Supply, Inc. 

New Rochelle, NY 

914-669-2400 

kevinoc@westnet.com 

www.ubs1.com 

Urban D.C., Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-599-4000 

www.urbandc.com 

W & W Cornerstone, LLC 


212-737-0825 

info@wwcornerstone.com 

www.wwcornerstone.com 

Russel Watsky, Inc. 

Ossining, NY 

914-941-4604 

ruswatsky@verizon.net 

West New York Restoration of CT, Inc. 

Bronx, NY 

718-617-2504 

wnyr@prodigy.net 

www.westnewyorkrestoration.com 

WLA Engineering, PC 


212-307-5515 

wlau@nyc.rr.com 

Masonry 

Ottavino Corporation 

Ozone Park, NY 

718-848-9404 

Delano@NJIT.edu 

DMS Studios, Ltd. 


718-937-5648 

dmsstudios@mindspring.com 

www.dms-studios.com 

Evens, Inc. 


212-712-2057 

john@siteaccents.com 

www.siteaccents.com 

Gladding, McBean & Company 

Lincoln, CA 

800-776-1133 

petepederson@paccoast.com 

www.gladdingmcbean.paccoast.com 

Homestead Chimney, Inc. 

Clinton, NJ 

800-242-7668 

zobbrombie@hotmail.com 

www.homesteadchimney.com 

Paragon Restoration Corporation 

Kenilworth, NJ 

908-276-8122 

paragoncor@aol.com 

www.paragoncorp.com 

PreCon LogStrat, LLC 

Mastic Beach, NY 

631-395-1683 

pcls@optonline.net 

www.precon-logstrat.com 

Watertrol, Inc. 

Cranford, NJ 

908-389-1690 

watertrol2480@aol.com 

www.watertrolinc.com 

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Pipe Organ Restoration 

Gluck New York, Inc. 


212-608-5651 

tubamagna@aol.com 

www.glucknewyork.com 

Roofing 

Baschnagel Bros., Inc. 

Whitestone, NY 

718-767-1919 

sales@baschnagel.com 

www.baschnagel.com 

Geiger Construction Co., Inc. 


212-535-7224 

kgeigers@aol.com 

Stained Glass 

Albert Stained Glass Studio 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-783-8800 

brooklynglass@aol.com 

www.albertstainedglass.com 

Clerkin Higgins Stained Glass, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-349-6552 

mc.higgins@rcn.com 

The Gil Studio, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-254-9703 

rc@thegilstudio.com 

www.thegilstudio.com 

J & R Lamb Studio, Inc. 

Clifton, NJ 

877-700-LAMB 

www.lambstudios.com 

Rohlf’s Stained & Leaded Glass Studio 


914-699-4848 

rohlf1@aol.com 

www.rohlfstudio.com 

Victor Rothman for Stained Glass 

Bronxville, NY 

212-255-2551 

vrothman@iwon.com 

Julie L. Sloan 

North Adams, MA 

413-663-5512 

jlsloan@jlsloan.com 

www.jlsloan.com 

Window Repair & Restoration 

Air-Flo Window Contracting Corp. 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-875-8600 

Artistic Doors and Windows, Inc. 

Avenel, NJ 

732-726-9400 

artisticdr@aol.com 

www.artistic-doors.com 

Cityproof Corp. 


718-786-1600 

cityproof@aol.com 

www.cityproof.com 

Flickinger Glassworks, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-875-1531 

info@flickingerglassworks.com 

www.flickingerglassworks.com 

Millwork Specialties 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-768-7112 

cot2@msn.com 

www.millworks-specialties.com 

NEDMI - Kolbe + Kolbe Wood Windows & Doors 

South Plainfield, NJ 

800-548-1841 

shamilton@nedmi.com 

www.nedmi.com 

Suppliers 

Architectural Salvage 

Olde Good Things 

Scranton, PA 

570-341-7668 

mail@oldegoodthings.com 

www.oldegoodthings.com 

Lighting Manufacturers 

145 Antiques 


212-807-1149 

jerry@145antiques.com 

www.145antiques.com 

Aurora Lampworks, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-384-6039 

nancy@auroralampworks.com 

www.auroralampworks.com 

Domingo Gonzalez Associates 


212-608-4800 

dgonzalez@dgalight.com 

www.dgalight.com 

Rambusch Decorating Company, Inc. 

Jersey City, NJ 

201-433-5955 

info@rambusch.com 

www.rambusch.com 

Renfro Design Group, Inc. 


212-229-9990 

rrenfro@renfrodesign.com 

www.renfrodesign.com 

SBLD Studio 


212-391-4230 

rdelucia@sbldstudio.com 

www.sbldstudio.com 

Non-Profit Organizations 

Common Ground Community HDFC, Inc. 


212-471-0880 

info@commonground.org 

www.commonground.org 

Green-Wood Cemetery 

Brooklyn, NY 

718-788-7850 

rjmoylan@green-wood.com 

www.greenwoodcemetery.org 

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inside the conservancy 

Introducing New Staff 

John Chaich brings ten years of nonprofit 

branding and publications experience 

to his role as Communications 

Manager. 

Elizabeth McTigue worked with 

us on several projects during her time 

as engineering project director for 

LZA Technology. She has joined the 

Conservancy as our Grants and 

Technical Services Manager. 

A graduate of Brown University 

with bookkeeping and administrative 

experience, Stephen Nesbit is our new 

Office Manager. 

Intern Terri Noonan, a secondyear 

graduate student in the historic 

preservation master’s degree program 

at Pratt Institute, is helping refine 

and expand the Conservancy’s database 

of New York City’s endangered 

religious properties. 

Amy Sullivan organized special 

events for The Posse Foundation, The 

Amy Sullivan, John Chaich, and 

Stephen Nesbit 

Terri Noonan and Elizabeth McTigue 

Rockefeller University, and St. Jude Children’s Hospital before joining us as 

Manager of Special Events. 

In Memory 

The Conservancy mourns the passing of former 

board member Joan Maynard, winner of our 2003 

Lucy G. Moses Preservation Leadership Award. 

As founding member and executive director 

emeritus of the Weeksville Society, Maynard championed 

the preservation of this once-thriving but 

long-forgotten 19th-century community of free 

African Americans in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. 

Weeksville is a New York City landmark and listed on the National 

Register of Historic Places. 

Maynard also served on the boards of the National Trust for 

Historic Preservation, the City University of New York, and the State 

Board for Historic Preservation. She sat on special committees at the 

Metropolitan Museum, the State Council on the Arts, the National 

Endowment for the Humanities, and on the Mayor’s Committee for 

the African American Burial Ground. She also received the National 

Trust’s Crowninshield Award, the Governor’s Art Award, and a 

Presidential Medal from Brooklyn College. 

Throughout her travels, awards, and duties, Maynard focused the 

country on preserving African American sites and history. Thanks to 

her, the residents and legacy of Weeksville will always be remembered. 

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inside the conservancy 

The Conservancy advocates for preservation of New York’s unique 

architectural heritage in Washington, Albany, and at City Hall. We are 

the only preservation organization in New York City—and one of the 

few in the country—with the financial and technical resources to back 

up advocacy with assistance. 

Over the years, we have awarded more than $28 million in loans 

and grants, accompanied by countless hours of pro-bono technical 

advice, to owners of historic homes, businesses, schools, houses of 

worship, theaters, cultural institutions, and community centers. In 

turn, we help revitalize neighborhoods and shape the future of our 

great City. 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

ADVISORY COUNCIL 

STAFF 

John J. Kerr, Jr. Chairman 

Frank J. Sciame, Jr. 

Vice Chairman 

Elizabeth F. Stribling, 

Secretary 

Michael K. De Chiara, 

Treasurer 

Peg Breen, President 

John Belle, FAIA, RIBA 

William L. Bernhard 

Kathryn McGraw Berry 

Farran Tozer Brown 

Paul S. Byard, FAIA 

Joan O. Camins 

Pamela Rubin Carter, Esq. 

Anne Coffin 

Susan R. Cullman 

Michael K. De Chiara, Esq. 

Douglas Durst 

Mr. Stuart P. Feld 

John M. Forelle, Esq. 

Robert C. Graham, Jr. 

Clark P. Halstead 

Paul K. Herzan 

Holly Hotchner 

Susan Henshaw Jones 

Stephen S. Lash 

Mimi Levitt 

Frederic S. Papert 

Allison Simmons Prouty, Esq. 

Marla Sabo 

Frances Scaife 

Marc P. Schappell 

David Kenneth Specter, AIA 

Joanne M. Stern 

Donald G. Tober 

Lloyd P. Zuckerberg 

Laurie Beckelman 

Robert W. Burnett 

Aubria Corbitt, Esq. 

Henry P. Davison II 

Peter Duchin 

Norton Garfinkle 

Margaret Brennan Hassett 

Stephen Kirschenbaum 

Ronald S. Lauder 

Malcolm MacKay 

Marjorie Flannigan 

MacLachlan, Esq. 

John Morning 

Sherida Paulsen 

Robert C. Quinlan 

Maribeth S. Rahe 

Arnold Scaasi 

Stuart N. Siegel 

Liz Smith 

The Reverend Canon 

Frederick B. Williams 

Karen Ansis, Manager, 

New York City Historic 

Properties Fund and 

CityVentures Fund 

John Chaich, Manager of 

Communications 

Jen Datka, Development 

Associate 

Ann-Isabel Friedman, 

Director, Sacred Sites 

Program 

Ronald C. Goewey, 

Bookkeeper 

Andrea Goldwyn, Fund 

Program Coordinator, 


Properties Fund 

Alex Herrera, Director, 

Technical Services Center 

Roger P. Lang, Director, 

Community Programs and 

Services 

James J. Mahoney, Fund 

Program Coordinator, 


Properties Fund 

Stephen Nesbit, Office 

Manager 

Elizabeth McTigue, Manager, 

Grants and Technical 

Services 

Lucy Roche, Associate 

Director of Development 

Amy Sullivan, Manager of 

Events 

L. Daniel Vincent, Director of 

Development and Finance 

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