Remembering Bill Dane william j. dane, one of the earliest sity of New Hampshire but left in 1942 to join members of in America the Army. Aft er the war he returned to college FALL 2019 and part of the group that established the New and earned a liberal arts degree. He later said York chapter, died July 13. He was 96 years old. he “didn’t have clue” as to where that degree Bill Dane, as he was known, was part of would lead him. the group that met in Margot Gayle’s home in In the fall of 1947, he applied for a job at the the 1960s to organize activities of the fl edg- Newark Public Library and was hired to be ling Victorian Society in America. Aft er the a clerk in its Art and Music Department. “I national organization moved its headquarters to circulated books, shelved and moved mate- Philadelphia, he remained active in it as well as rials,” he recalled, “and I picked up all kinds [email protected] | 212-886-3742 in the local chapter. He served on the New York of information relating to the subject areas chapter’s board of directors from 1970 until 1992. of art and music.” Th e library granted him WWW.VICSOCNY.ORG He was its treasurer (1970-73, 1984-85) and vice leaves to study at various institutions. In 1950 up the Gertrude Fine Prints Endowment Fund the new york metropolitan chapter of the victorian society in america president (1973-75). In 2002 the chapter honored he went to the Sorbonne and later to Harvard. in memory of his sister. His initial contribu- him with a lifetime achievement award. He earned a master’s degree in library science tion of $30,000 was augmented with $10,000 In 2005, the Victorian Society in America from Drexel University and took more than 20 from the Dodge Foundation. Over the years, presented him with a special president’s courses at New York University’s Institute of he curated more than 350 exhibitions at the award. Th at presentation noted he had actively Fine Arts. library. At one time he gave his job title as “the supported many of the organization’s activi- Bill remained with the Newark Public keeper of prints.” At retirement he was the Victoriana at the Edge ties from its earliest days. He had a particular Library for 62 years, retiring in 2009. Over the supervising librarian of special collections. interest in the summer schools, and for many years, his work and responsibilities changed Active in many professional organizations, Cameron Robertson, a VSNY board member and criteria. During the survey’s Reconnaissance patt erns and defi ned communities by the years served on the committ ee that organized as he expanded the library’s holdings to Bill co-founded the Art Libraries Society of a planner and historic preservation specialist at Level phase, any structure that appeared dominant historic themes refl ected in the and ran them. He was also an offi cer of the encompass a comprehensive survey of the North America in 1972 and was its fi rst trea- the consulting fi rm AKRF, has been using state- to meet NR criteria was documented using existing historic built fabric. Th e community Summer Schools Alumni Association. graphic arts from the Renaissance to the 21St surer. He received the Distinguished Service of-the-art technology to analyze vulnerabilities the app. Aft er OPRHP reviewed these forms, types identifi ed were labeled Maritime Econ- Bill was born May 8, 1923, in Concord, N.H. century. It was named Th e William J. Dane Award from the organization in 1998. to climate-change-related damage in New York structures underwent Intensive Level analy- omies, Resort Towns, Industrial Areas, Parks, He began his college education at the Univer- Fine Print Collection in 1997. In 2004, he set neighborhoods, many of them rich in Victorian sis if they were deemed eligible or if OPRHP Military Installations, Early 20th Century buildings. Here’s a summary of the team’s requested more information. More research Suburbs, Late 19th Century Workers’ Housing intriguing fi ndings so far, writt en by Cameron and documentation for buildings qualify- and Institutions. Jack Taylor Dies at 93 with colleague Erica Mollon and supervisor ing for this level included detailed physical Once the community types were identi- Claudia Cooney. descriptions and statements of signifi cance. fi ed, challenges facing each typology became jack taylor th Legendary preservationist died campaign to preserve the 19 -century Born in Manhatt an on April 25, 1925, Taylor Once the Intensive forms were completed clearer. For example, the earliest form of February 8 at the age of 93. A longtime VSNY building. (It was demolished in 1995.) Taylor att ended Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., In 2012, Superstorm Sandy rendered parts and neighborhood contexts fi nalized, OPRHP Maritime Economies tend to be located on member, he was honored with the organiza- also valiantly tried to prevent the 1991 and Georgetown University in Washington, of the coastline and larger uploaded that information to their online, slightly higher ground and are hence more th tion’s lifetime achievement award in 2014. demolition of the house at 327 E. 17 Street, D.C. His fi rst job aft er college was with Th e region unrecognizable. To increase the state’s publicly accessible database, the Cultural likely to face development pressures and en- Taylor is perhaps best remembered for where Antonin Dvořák lived from 1892 Washington Post. resiliency in the face of future storm events, Resources Information System (CRIS). croachment from new high-density projects. spearheading the drive to designate the Ladies’ to 1895 and composed his “From the New AKRF was hired by the New York State Parks, During the project’s Phase 1, encompass- By contrast, Resort Communities developed Mile Historic District. Th e 1989 designation World” symphony. Recreation and Historic Preservation Offi ce ing the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island, the adjacent to beaches and boardwalks, drawing protects shops and department stores built in Taylor was a leader in achieving the (OPRHP) to produce a two-phase, four-year, team surveyed 65 neighborhoods. Th ey identi- visitors by ferry, train and later car. Many th th th the late 19 and early 20 centuries between designation of the East 17 Street/Irving federally-funded survey. Th e goal has been fi ed 1,346 properties at the Reconnaissance neighborhoods on the Rockaway Peninsula th th 15 and 24 Streets from to Sixth Place Historic District. It was designated in to identify vulnerable historic resources, to Level and 605 at the Intensive Level, and they developed in this way, and properties are Avenue in Manhatt an. 1998 aft er a 14-year eff ort. Even longer was ensure that they are protected from climate- delineated 20 Historic Districts containing a primarily bungalows, with some larger late His preservation eff orts blossomed in the the campaign to preserve the Tammany Hall related damage in the future, either during total of 532 contributing resources. To identify 19th-century houses. Th ese communities are early 1980s aft er his retirement as an editor building on the east side of Union Square. It storm events or post-storm recovery. Th e community typologies, the team analyzed continued on page 2 at Family Circle magazine. Th e threatened was designated an offi cial New York City land- project team is using the most recent coastal demolition of Luchow’s, the famed German mark in 2013 aft er 29 years of lobbying. Taylor fl ood hazard composite risk maps to delineate th restaurant at 110 E. 14 Street in Manhatt an, was also involved in eff orts to protect Union study areas, and is employing mobile technol- sparked his enthusiastic participation in Square from unwise changes proposed by the ogy to geo-locate and document all potential a years-long and ultimately unsuccessful city for the park. historic resources in accordance with Na- tional Register (NR) survey criteria. To complete the large-scale survey, the team collected basic information in the fi eld—including photos and locations of resources—via an online soft ware and mobile app. Before fi eldwork began, neighbor- hood research and a context statement were prepared to identify each area’s themes of cultural and social trends as well as build- ing trends that would potentially meet NR

View of Havemeyer/Huntington Mansion in the Bronx, circa 1906 232 East 11th Street (photo: New York Public Library) New York, NY 10003 VictorianSocietyNY @VicSocietyNY photos/victorianny/ Demarest Building Threatened

continued from page 1 vulnerable because of their proximity to These hallmarks stand out among alterations Despite staunch appeals from VSNY, the ornaments are high-relief portraits of the water, and their wood frame buildings including modern window sashes, newer 29th Street Neighborhood Association and shirtless deities holding up floral bowers. often experience insensitive repairs, such roofing material, recladding in asbestos other community members for landmark Activists have regularly appealed to as the stripping of detailing and recladding. shingles and the infill of the porch. designation of the Demarest Building at 339 government officials to expand the Madison rd The neighborhoods’ surviving bungalows, The survey also revealed how distinctive 5th Avenue (at 33 Street), built in 1890 and Square North Historic District to include originally built as temporary homes, were designed by renowned architecture firm Renwick’s masterful design (which the architectural trends are still discernible in the not designed to withstand decades of harsh Renwick, Aspinwall & Russell, permits have Landmarks Preservation Commission has early communities—either in street layouts weather conditions. been filed to replace it with a 26-story, 283- inexplicably deemed to have insufficient Within these communities, a number of or building typologies—although the build- foot, generic mixed-use spire. surviving historic fabric). Daniel Garodnick, important Victorian-era buildings were given ings themselves often suffered from a high The lead architect, James Renwick (1818- former City Council member, has called the Intensive Level analysis. In Throgs Neck in the loss of integrity, including recladding, altera- 1895), worked on landmarks as prominent as Demarest his favorite building in his district. Bronx, the Havemeyer/Huntington Mansion tions to fenestration patterns and removal New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Grace Columbia professor Andrew S. Dolkart Circa-1975 photo by Edmund Vincent Gillon is a French Second Empire-style house now of original detailing. As such, areas such as Church and the Smithsonian Institution described it to as “one of of the Demarest Building at 339 (photo: Museum of the City of New York) serving as a Catholic high school for girls. The Broad Channel in Queens did not meet the NR Building in Washington, D.C. The buff- those buildings that whenever I pass by, it Havemeyer/Huntington property is one of the criteria to be designated as historic districts. brick Demarest Building, commissioned makes me smile.” large family estates that comprised the Throgs Despite the loss of character-defining fea- for carriage maker Aaron T. Demarest, was A recent visit showed thriving busi- th Neck peninsula through the 19 century. tures, the areas retain a unique sense of place, equipped with the world’s first electric- nesses in the storefronts, including a Wendy’s The house’s overall form and details remain operated elevator, installed by the Otis branch lined in photo-murals of better differentiated from the surrounding develop- intact, in an area formerly known as a rural Brothers. The structure’s dramatic multistory protected New York landmarks. The innova- To help save this landmark-worthy building, ment. For these communities, current preser- summer resort for wealthy city dwellers. windows foreshadow modernist curtain tive elevator has been modernized, but the VSNY's partner Village Preservation's website, City Island, just north of Throgs Neck, vation designations or protections would not walls. Its broad cornice rests on unspoiled original staircase survives, with newel posts GVSHP.org, has a link for sending Demarest sup- contains multiple commercial and residen- apply; however, the scale, community design leafy brackets, and among its lavish façade trimmed in dentil molding. George Calderaro port letters to city officials. tial buildings dating back to the 1860s. The and building typologies seem worthy of some Victorian-era properties represent maritime form of recordation or zoning protections to industries; the island was a center for com- help maintain the sense of place. Merchant’s House in Battle mercial shipbuilding, oyster farming and, Through early 2020, in the project’s Phase later, yacht clubs. On the historic business 2, the team will continue to record historic For seven years the Merchant’s House Museum ’s first landmark—and for historic Council’s decision, alongside the lawyers corridor, City Island Avenue, significant architecture vulnerable to climate-change- th has been battling the proposed development preservation as a whole. representing the City of New York. Bravo to the buildings range from mid-19 -century wood- related damage, in addition to determin- frame Italianate-style structures to early of an eight-story hotel next door, at 27 East The fight, however, continues. Under current City for recognizing the historic importance ing potential resources that may have been 20th-century brick buildings. At 279 Island 4th Street. The construction could cause zoning laws, the developer can build a six- of the Merchant’s House Museum, one of New missed in past surveys. This phase includes Avenue, a two-story, Italianate-style, mixed- catastrophic damage to the fragile 187-year-old story hotel. Instead, the developer has opted York’s most venerable institutions!” some neighborhoods of Manhattan and the use residential and commercial building was building, which the Landmarks Preservation to take legal action, filing a petition in January As the museum strives to meet the challenge Bronx, as well as municipalities in Westches- built circa 1860 by Captain Joshua Leviness. Commission has designated on the exterior to overturn the City Council’s ruling. City of this overwhelming threat, efforts to restore ter, Rockland and Orange Counties. Whether Along Staten Island’s coast, highlights and interior. representatives, including Council Member the building, conserve the original collections or not devastating storms sweep through include a Second Empire-style house at 5300 In September 2018, after protracted legal Carlina Rivera and Manhattan Borough and educate the public continue. Legal and again and rebuilding is needed, communi- Arthur Kill Road, constructed circa 1868 by proceedings, the City Council voted against President Gale Brewer, have stated that they engineering fees continue to mount, but there ties and outside experts will be better able local builder Andrew Abrams. The house has the developer’s application for “spot zoning” will stand firm in support of the Merchant’s is no choice: the future of the Merchant’s to recognize and understand what has been from left to right: many quintessential Second Empire features, permits to construct the hotel, marking an House. The museum’s lawyer, Michael Hiller, House is at stake. built, what makes these vulnerable communi- A house at 5300 Arthur Kill Road, Staten Island, built including a mansard roof, molded cornices, important victory for the Merchant’s House, stated, “We are vigorously defending the City Margaret Halsey Gardiner, in 1868, and an Italianate-style house on Pilot Street, decorative wooden brackets along the eaves, ties unique and ensure there are records of Executive Director, Merchant’s House Museum City Island (photos: AKRF) gable dormers and a wraparound porch. historic properties prior to any disasters. Staten Island’s Bluestone Blues

In a loss to one of New York’s great century and add to the neighborhood’s Victorian-era landmarks, the city is planning historic character and sense of place. They to remove thousands of linear feet of historic will be replaced with white concrete. bluestone sidewalk pavement from the The pavers physically abut the perimeter of Sailors’ Snug Harbor on Staten designated landmark fence, but the Island. The Harbor, a National Register Landmarks Preservation Commission Historic District and National Historic did not require any specific measures to Landmark, has only limited local landmark protect the nearly half-mile-long fence protection, including several of its buildings during construction. It also did not Harbor’s public entrances, where it would and interiors and the cast-iron perimeter use its status as the city’s preservation have been most visible. fence along Richmond Terrace and Snug agency to work with the Departments of A program to salvage bluestone sidewalk Harbor Road. The bluestone extends for the Transportation or Design and Construction pavers removed from non-landmark sites entire frontage along these streets as well as on options that would have preserved for reuse within historic districts has long on Henderson Avenue at the site’s southern and restored the bluestone, including the been discussed by preservationists but never border. The slabs probably date to the 19th possibility of consolidating it near Snug implemented. Jeremy Woodoff 2 3 left to right: Cuban immigrants at a cigar factory, c. 1900 (photo: Mashable), a sketch of jamboree dancers (image: from Alfred Trumble’s 1882 book Th e Mysteries left to right: Painter Frederic Edwin Church’s 1875 Valley of Santa Ysabel, New Granada, depicting modern-day Colombia (photo: Pennsylvania Academy of of New York. A Sequel to “Glimpses of Gotham,” and “New York by Day and Night”); the Bowery around 1905 (photo: Detroit Publishing Co./Library of Congress) the Fine Arts); Dale Cockrell’s book cover with 1904 sketch of dancers at Coney Island (image: Henry Mayer, in Rupert Hughes's 1904 book, Th e Real New York); Th e Harpist, 1903 portrait by Canadian artist Alphonse Jongers of Florence Griswold, a boardinghouse owner in Old Lyme, Conn., who catered to artists (photo: Florence Griswold Museum); cover of Lisandro Pérez’s new book

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 10:30 A.M.- lectures WEST SIDE Y, 5 WEST 63RD STREET, other victoriana tours APPROX. 12:30 P.M. PARKSIDE LOUNGE events of interest: NEW LECTURE FEE POLICY: VSNY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 8 A.M. (DAYLONG) THE BOWERY: NEW YORK CITY’S RECEPTION AT 6:15, LECTURE AT 6:30 sponsors evening lectures at various OLDEST STREET OCTOBER 26, 1 TO 4 PM, ROUNDTABLE ON PLANTS AND PAINTINGS IN PHILADELPHIA venues, $5 for members, $10 for EVERYBODY’S DOIN’ IT: SEX, MUSIC AND Native American footpath, Dutch farm road and site ARCHITECT MINARD LAFEVER (1798-1854), Th is tour will focus on accomplishments that nonmembers. Cash only, exact change DANCE IN VICTORIAN NEW YORK of the city’s fi rst Free Black homesteads, the Bowery FIRST UNITARIAN CONGREGATIONAL preceded the . In the morning we will please. No reservations required. Prostitution was big business in New York up to stretches 1.25 miles from Chatham Square to Cooper SOCIETY, 48 MONROE PLACE, BROOKLYN. explore Bartram’s Garden, the oldest surviving World War I, and where sex workers plied their Square. An early social hub for the working class, FOR DETAILS: FUUB.ORG botanic garden in this country. It was begun in MONDAY, OCTOBER 28 trade, there was generally dancing and music. gangs, gays and immigrant Irish, Italians, Chinese, WEST SIDE Y, 5 WEST 63RD STREET, 1728 by John Bartram, a self-taught botanist who Musicologist and author Dale Cockrell’s lecture, Jews and Germans, it was “the most interesting PARKSIDE LOUNGE OCTOBER 26, 2 TO 4 PM, WALKING TOUR OF collected seeds and plants on extensive travels that based on his new book, Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, place in New York” to Stephen Crane. It has RECEPTION AT 6:15, LECTURE AT 6:30 TIN PAN ALLEY, THE OLD CHELSEA THEATER took him north to New , south to Florida Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 (W. W. important links to Washington, Lincoln, baseball, DISTRICT AND ENVIRONS CONDUCTED BY and west to Lake Ontario. Back in Philadelphia, he SUGAR, CIGARS, AND REVOLUTION: Norton), will explore New York’s Victorian meeting streetcars, tap dance, tatt oo, Yiddish theater, vaude- LAURENCE FROMMER, PRESIDENT OF SAVE nurtured them in the garden surrounding his house THE MAKING OF CUBAN NEW YORK places where sex, drink, music and dance mingled. ville, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Harry Houdini Founded in New York City in CHELSEA, STARTING AT THE HOTEL CHELSEA, that borders on the Schuylkill River. In the aft er- More than century before the Cuban Revolution Spirited live music, whether played by a single and even Mae West. A longtime home to rescue 1966, the Victorian Society in 222 WEST 23RD STREET. FOR DETAILS: noon we will see the exhibit “From the Schuylkill of 1959 sparked an exodus that created today’s pianist or a small band, was enjoyed nightly in missions, it is also known for its aff ordable jewelry, America is dedicated to fostering WWW.UPPERWESTSIDEHISTORY.ORG/ to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American prominent Cuban American presence, Cubans were hundreds of basement dives, dance halls, brothels lighting and restaurant supply districts. Its artists’ the appreciation and preserva- UPCOMING-EVENTS.HTML Republic” at the Pennsylvania Academy of the sett ling in New York in what became the largest and concert saloons. Crowds of multiethnic men community helped foster abstract expressionism, tion of our nation’s 19TH-century th Fine Arts. On display will be paintings by such community of Latin Americans in the 19 -century and women danced wildly to intoxicating music— Beat literature, improvisational jazz and punk rock. Philadelphia artists as Charles Willson Peale, James heritage as well as that of the Northeast. Lisandro Pérez’s new book, Sugar, Cigars, to the horror of the moralistic elite. Th is rollicking New York City’s oldest, most architecturally diverse TH Peale and William Russell Birch that depict the early 20 -century (1837–1917). and Revolution: Th e Making of Cuban New York (NYU demimonde drove innovative new music, including street, it was named to the National Register of Wissahickon, Delaware and Schuylkill waterways. The Victorian Society New Press), brings this community to vivid life, tracing ragtime and jazz and punk, and the development of Historic Places in 2013. Despite that honor, it is one Works by several Hudson River School painters are York (VSNY), the oldest of how it was formed by both the sugar trade and risqué new dance styles. Cockrell’s talk will illumi- of the city’s most endangered historic streetscapes. also included in the exhibit, among them Frederic numerous chapters now fl our- the long struggle for independence from Spain. nate the how, why and where of America’s popular LIMITED TO 30 PARTICIPANTS Edwin Church and Th omas Cole, who trained as ishing throughout the USA, is an Professor Pérez analyzes forces that shaped the music and dance, and trace a buoyant journey from FEES: $20 FOR VSNY MEMBERS, an artist in Philadelphia in the 1820s. Lunch at the community and tells the stories of individuals and downtown Five Points to midtown Tin Pan Alley $30 NONMEMBERS independent nonprofi t organiza- Reading Terminal Market will be on our own. families in a litt le-known immigrant world repre- and all the way to Harlem. tion affi liated with the national LIMITED TO 40 PARTICIPANTS senting the origins of New York City’s dynamic SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 8 A.M. (DAYLONG) Society. FEES: $130 FOR VSNY MEMBERS, Latino presence. Th e Cuba Trade, starting in the DECEMBER EVENING LECTURE, DETAILS TBD $160 NONMEMBERS CONSIDERING CONNECTICUT early 1800s, brought most of Cuba’s burgeoning Membership contributions at any A HISTORY OF THE VICTORIAN DOLLS' PAID RESERVATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED A tour of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old sugar production to Lower Manhatt an’s docks, to be HOUSE: LIVING LARGE IN A SMALL HOME BY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9. Lyme and a visit to a private home in Old Saybrook level help to provide the foun- sold to the city’s many sugar refi neries. Th is trade Historian Eliza de Sola Mendes will explore the is in the planning stage. dation for all that we do—from was the basis for the creation of a community of entrancing world of dolls’ houses and furnishings, our lecture series, walking tours Cubans dominated by sugar planters, which led exploring their makers, artisanship and surprising NOTE FOR TOUR PARTICIPANTS: and excursions, to our grant to a popular image among New Yorkers of Cubans cultural importance, via rarely seen photographs Paid reservations are required and can be made via PayPal and awards programs honoring as wealthy landowners with a hint of Old World among other archival treasures. from our website (vicsocny.org) or through checks sent to Tours, worthy preservation projects in sensibilities. Professor Pérez’s lecture for VSNY Metropolitan Chapter VSA, 232 East 11TH Street, New York, NY New York. Members also help will reveal, among other topics, how Cubans rose to 10003. No refunds for cancellations. Meeting places will be provide scholarships to the Victo- prominence among Manhatt an’s 19th-century elite. provided with registration confi rmation. Participants must be in good health, able to participate safely in the activities rian Society in America Summer involved. Sites may have challenging stairs or hills. If you have Schools for advanced study. any concerns about your ability to participate fully, please Donations to the Margot Gayle contact us ([email protected] or 212-886-3742). VSNY reserves Fund make possible monetary the right to decline to accept or refuse to retain any person as a member of our tours at any time. grants for preservation and Fall 20 19 conservation of Victorian material culture in our region. 4 Welcoming an Impressive New Group to Board of Directors

Caroline Drabik’s Lynne Funk AIA is a Jeremy Woodoff Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May, New Jersey. Eli enjoys exploring new cities and (UK), an amenity society that advocates for all professional focus licensed architect with has worked for In addition to joining VSNY’s board, Jeremy is neighborhoods, while keeping an eye out for listed 18th- and early 19th-century buildings and is the care, keeping 35 years’ experience the City of New also a recent addition to the board of Friends Victorian houses, old synagogues and traces landscapes, and the Victorian Society (UK), a and interpretation across commercial, York since 1980, of the Jefferson Market Bell. His longtime of bygone industries. He is a passionate statutory consultee on alterations to listed Victo- of historic house residential and insti- first at the Land- preservation interests also include historic collector of 19th- and 20th-century American rian buildings. He is a liveryman of the Furniture museum interiors, tutional markets. Her marks Preservation pavements, street furnishings and the works art, particularly examples of the Hudson Makers’ Company (UK), where he has promoted furnishings and work with her own Commission as of Olmsted and Vaux as embodied in the city’s River School, Ashcan School and 1930s and Britain’s finest handmade furniture. In New York, decorations. She has company included a city planner, scenic landmarks. ‘40s American Modernism. He is also an avid Mark has co-curated two exhibitions of contem- worked as a curator, renovations of historic director of environ- fan of horse racing and soccer (the British porary Irish and American furniture and craft at collections manager structures, ranging mental review and Eli Sterngass is a Premier League). Eli reports that he is excited the American Irish Historical Society, and he has and advisor to profes- from 19th-century deputy director in fine art research to make a difference in the community by been a trustee of the Furniture Society. He was Caroline Drabik Lynne Funk Jeremy Woodoff sional and volunteer townhouses to mid- the Preservation associate at Gurr assisting with VSNY’s work. recently invited to sit on the collections committee staff in charge of the sites’ material culture 20th-century modern Department. Since Johns International, of the Delaware Art Museum. He lives on the assets and holdings. Until recently, she storefronts. In 2018, she joined CCA, which 2000, he has worked in the tiny historic pres- an appraisal firm Mark Bench, Upper West Side with his wife, Aleya Lehmann, served as director of curatorial affairs for provides architectural and engineering services ervation office at the Department of Design based in New York a native of an artist who has spearheaded recent restoration the Historic House Trust of New York City focused on construction defect mitigation. and Construction. Before coming to New and . Raised Manchester, of Verdi Square at the West 72nd Street subway and its 23 member historic houses. Former For 15 years, her office was located in the York, he served for three years as a commu- in the historic England, has had a (1, 2 and 3 lines) entrance. He reports that positions include collections manager for the Meatpacking District, where she contributed nity planner for the City of Savannah and summer resort long career in the he is eager to contribute to VSNY’s dialogue, Merchant’s House Museum and curatorial time and research to the successful push for was on the board of the Savannah Landmark town of Saratoga fine and decorative particularly related to landmarking initiatives. fellow through the Kress Foundation. historic district designation of Gansevoort Rehabilitation Project, which restored houses Springs, New arts. Before moving Eli Sterngrass Caroline provides advocacy for and assis- Market. This experience enhanced her appre- in the city’s Victorian Historic District for York, he gradu- to New York in 2007, tance to house museums and other small ciation of mixed-use neighborhoods and led low-income residents. ated from the University of Michigan in 2016 he worked primarily history organizations, with an understanding to an interest in entertainment districts, Jeremy spent his early years in Stuyvesant with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology, at two international of the challenges and complexities of including Tin Pan Alley near Madison Square Town but found the East Village neighbor- museum studies and art history. During his auction houses in Mark Bench interpreting and caring for historic furnish- Park. Walking tours (given and taken) hood, which he crossed en route to school, senior year, he studied in Prague, where his London’s Mayfair. ings and decorations. Her appreciation of have been a lifelong passion, including her much more interesting. When he was 9, suspicions about possessing an affinity for In London and New York, he has been actively collections’ close relationship to architectural “Tribeca: Industrial Edge,” which explores the family moved to Aiken, South Carolina, remarkable architecture were confirmed. involved with professional associations. For the styles and functioning, their physical beauty the transformation of lower west Manhattan. where he lived until leaving for college (Rock- Following his return to New York, he worked Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, he is and their intrinsic value to everyday life Lynne’s other community-based activities ford College in Illinois, then Oberlin College at Questroyal Fine Art, a gallery specializing a member of the Fine Art and Chattels Faculty. fuel her passion for the field. She currently include serving on the advisory council of the in Ohio, and finally graduate school in city in the Hudson River School. He has also worked with provides curator services to historic houses Hudson River Park Trust and volunteering at planning at Harvard University’s Graduate and organizations through her newly created free kayaking sites on the Hudson. She lives on School of Design). He has lived in Park Slope business, White Rose Curator Services. the Upper West Side, and among her favorite since returning to New York. Clients include Old Westbury Gardens and nearby haunts are the Riverside Clay Tennis Jeremy’s long-standing hobby is collecting the Greater Hudson Heritage Network. She Association’s courts. Lynne also loves to ski, and restoring antique clocks. He is on the holds a master’s degree in museum studies sail and skate, she reports—“anything near, board of Save America’s Clocks, an organiza- from the Fashion Institute of Technology on or in water!” She was raised in Kentucky, tion that was one of the leads in the recent, (SUNY) and a bachelor’s degree from Elms attended the University of Kentucky’s College ultimately unsuccessful, lawsuit against the College. During her post-college studies in of Architecture and retains her love of horses City of New York and the developer of the m $30 YOUNG VICTORIANS* Perugia, Italy, and her graduate studies in and Southern cooking. former New York Life Insurance Co. headquar- Join the VICTORIAN SOCIETY NEW YORK today! *Members age 35 and younger, New York, she developed an affection and ters at 346 Broadway. The suit attempted to please provide a copy of your enthusiasm for the arts of the Middle Ages in reverse the Landmarks Commission’s approval valid ID. Additional Special Contribution(s): Europe as the life bridge for classical influ- to close the landmark-designated clocktower m $40 INDIVIDUAL* VSA SUMMER SCHOOL Scholarships $ MARGOT GAYLE FUND $ ences which endure to the present. to the public and to alter the historic clock. *Seniors and full-time students Caroline reports that she joined VSNY’s board (VSNY was a party to an amicus brief in the receive a $10 discount at this Please make checks payable to: Metropolitan Chapter, VSA level. Please provide a copy of Mail this form with check to: VSNY, 232 East 11th Street, New York, NY, 10003 to support its mission and to learn from and case.) In 2000, Jeremy curated a small show, your valid ID. share with colleagues. She lives in Malverne, “Once Upon a Time: Clocks and Victorian m $60 DUAL* New York, with her husband, Rick White. Style,” at the Carriage House Gallery of the *Seniors receive a $10 Name(s) Please print discount at this level.

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