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SACRED SITES PROGRAM from the President, Common Bond Vol ANNIVERSARY OF THE SACRED SITES PROGRAM From the President, Common Bond Vol. 26, No. 1. Spring 2016 It is a great pleasure for all of us at The Sacred Sites 30th Anniversary Issue New York Landmarks Conservancy to celebrate the 30th anniversary of our Contents Sacred Sites program. Sacred Sites Donors 2 From the initial $100,000 funding from The Celebrating New York’s Sacred Sites 3 J.M. Kaplan Fund, we have now granted more than $9.3 million to more than 750 religious institutions of The Enlightened Philanthropy of Robert W. Wilson 8 all denominations, funding 1,350 restoration projects across the State. Our grants have had an outsized impact, helping historic Cristo Rey 10 religious properties complete restoration work totaling more than Jewish Heritage Fund 11 $600 million. Funders’ Take on Giving 13 In 30 years, we’ve sponsored 40 workshops, providing training Improving Life and Living for Communities 14 to over 3,000 clergy and congregation leaders in proactive maintenance and repair of roofs and facades, energy conservation, generating rental income via shared and partial adaptive use, fundraising for capital projects, and long-term financial Common Bond is the technical journal of the Sacred Sites Program. management. Maintaining and restoring these facilities has enabled them The New York Landmarks Conservancy’s Sacred Sites Program offers to continue to serve their communities with day care, senior congregations throughout New York State financial and technical programming, food pantries, and cultural programming. Within the assistance to maintain, repair, and restore their buildings. In addition last year alone, our grantees provided services to over 164,000 to providing hundreds of thousands of dollars in matching grants each individuals. year, the Conservancy offers technical help, workshops for building caretakers, and publications. Our program publication, Common Bond, provides practical information on consultant and contractor selection, the proper Editor: Ann-Isabel Friedman care and maintenance of slate, shingle, and copper roofs, gutters, Managing Editors: Idil Magil, Amy Woodin masonry and stained glass, fire prevention, energy conservation, Principle Writer/ Contributor: Mari S. Gold and fundraising, with articles highlighting congregational success stories and best practices. Our publications “Managing Repair Image on front and back cover from The Riverside Church in Manhattan. & Restoration Projects, A Congregation’s How-To Guide,” and “Inspecting and Maintaining Religious Properties,” have guided hundreds of congregations through major repair projects. Back issues are available in print and online at http://www.nylandmarks.org/publications/common_bond/ Preservationists have to be optimists. But even the Conservancy For additional information about the Sacred Sites Program or Board and staff who initiated Sacred Sites could not have Common Bond, please contact: envisioned the depth and scope the program has achieved. The New York Landmarks Conservancy Our expert Sacred Sites staff have traveled to every corner of the One Whitehall Street state; provided technical assistance and professional referrals to New York, NY 10004 dedicated congregants; seen entire communities come together to (212) 995-5260 save religious buildings important to local history; and experienced nylandmarks.org first hand the beauty and complexity of these important structures. The New York Landmarks Conservancy There have been many dedicated funders who have enabled Peg Breen, President Sacred Sites to continue and grow through the years. The full Ann-Isabel Friedman, Sacred Sites Program Director list is inside. But we must especially thank our anonymous donor who stepped in to recapitalize our Sacred Sites Challenge Grant Colleen Heemeyer, Manager of Grants and Technical Services program after the passing of long-term funder Robert W. Wilson, the David Berg Foundation, and the Roy J. Zuckerberg Family Sacred Sites Committee Foundation for enabling us to initiate a Jewish Heritage Fund. Ronne Fisher, Chair Justin Abelow As we look ahead to the next 30 years, the Landmarks Conservancy is determined to expand Sacred Site’s ability to Oscar K. Anderson III assist restoration. We will also work to demonstrate as broadly as The Reverend Canon George W. Brandt Jr. possible that religious buildings are integral to the history and fabric Bernadette Castro of our communities, often providing educational and social service August Ceradini programs whose benefits reach far beyond the congregations. Gus Christensen Sacred Sites is one of a handful of programs in the country offering Stuart P. Feld financial help to religious properties and the only program that Michael Jaffe covers an entire state. While we are proud of our efforts, we need The Reverend John A. Kamas to promote broad public support for these beautiful, complex, and Malcolm MacKay important structures. Lise Moran The Reverend Dr. Thomas F. Pike Peg Breen, President Stephanie Pincus, MD Jonathan Plotkin Marc P. Schappell SACRED SITES DONORS The Achelis and Bodman Foundations Christabel Gough New York Community Trust Michael L. Ainslie Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company New York Interfaith Power & Light Alpine Snow Guards Armand Hammer Foundation New York State Council on the Arts Altman Foundation Herkimer County Historical Society New York State Office of Parks Recreation & Anonymous Leon Hess Historic Preservation Adrian & Jessie Archbold Charitable Trust Historic Boston, Inc. Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation J. Sinclair Armstrong Anne Holford-Smith Norman Winston Joan and Robert Arnow Fund Holzer & Company Northern New York Community Foundation George D. Artz Gedale B. Horowitz Notifier Vincent Astor Foundation Holly Hotchner Old Stones Foundation Gillian Attfield Cecil Howard Charitable Trust Otter Lake Community Church The Lily Auchincloss Foundation Stewart W. & Willma C. Hoyt Foundation James T. Parkinson Barker Welfare Foundation Virginia Hunt Trust for Episcopal Church Institutions Anne Perkins William S. Beinecke IBM Foundation Philanthropic Collaborative, Inc. John Belle The J.M. Kaplan Fund Anne and Joseph Pierson David Berg Foundation, Inc. Jesselson Foundation Ponagansett Foundation, Inc. Louis H. Blumengarten The John Ben Snow Memorial Trust Preservation Buffalo Niagara Booth Ferris Foundation W. Alton Jones Foundation, Inc. Preservation League of New York State Simon Breines JPMorgan Chase Foundation Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans The Brodsky Organization Bonnie M. Kahn Percy Preston Rosalie W. Byard Richard D. Kaplan Prospect Hill Foundation Callan Construction Eleanor L. Kash Public Art Fund Catesby Foundation Karen M. Kennedy Quincunx Trust Cerberus Pyrotronics John J. Kerr The Reed Foundation, Inc. Church Mutual Insurance Company David L. Klein Jr. Foundation Dale L. Reynolds City of Buffalo The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Richmond County Savings Foundation Frank E. Clark Charitable Trust Senator Liz Krueger May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. Anne Coffin Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Lash Sheri Sandler Cooking Company Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Lauder Sophia D. Schachter Catherine G. Curran Ronald S. Lauder Francesco Lugar Schafer Michel David-Weill Foundation Mimi Levitt Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Schapiro Harriet Ford Dickenson Foundation Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, Inc. Marc P. Schappell Valerie & Charles Diker Fund Long Island Lighting Company Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP Catherine N. Dugan Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Seth Sprague Educational & Charitable Douglas Durst Catharine Lynch Foundation Dyson Foundation James A. MacDonald Foundation Society for the Preservation of Episcopal Diocese of New York Hale Matthews Foundation Long Island Antiquities EverGreene Architectural Arts, Inc. James J. McCann Charitable Trust David A. Stein Timothy C. Forbes Richard P. Mellon William Stivale - Building Conservator John R. Fox Walter B. Melvin Architects, LLC Sutton Area Community, Inc. Solomon J. Freedman Ronay and Richard Menschel David Teitelbaum Ann-Isabel Friedman Metropolitan Cemetery Association Tiffany & Co. Foundation Friends for Long Island’s Heritage Milstein Family Foundation Hugh Tudor-Foley Friends of Lorenzo Edward T. Mohylowski Frederick S. Upton Foundation Furthermore: JM Kaplan Fund Program Mostyn Foundation, Inc. Vinmont Foundation, Inc. Eva30 Gebhard-Goarbaud Foundation Museum of Arts & Design Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Roger G. Gerry Nash Family Foundation Margaret L. Wendt Foundation Gerry Charitable Trust National Trust for Historic Preservation Fred & Floy Willmott Foundation Golden Family Foundation Natural Heritage Trust Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust Arlene & Arnold Goldstein Family Foundation New York Community Bank Foundation Roy J. Zuckerberg Family Foundation Vol. 26, No. 1 2 CELEBRATING NEW YORK’S SACRED SITES This photo of the sanctuary at St. Anselm’s in the Bronx was taken on a 2016 Sacred Sites Open House tour by Conservancy member James Russiello. New York has a magnificent collection of historic religious architecture from all denominations. For the past 30 years, the New York Landmarks CELEBRATING NEW YORK’S Conservancy’s award-winning Sacred Sites program has helped congregations maintain and restore SACRED SITES these iconic buildings. Sacred Sites is the only state-wide initiative of its kind in the country. During the past three decades, the program has disbursed $9.3 million in grants to 750 congregations, helping to fund 1,350 restoration projects. Five years ago, at the 25th anniversary
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