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Legal Oral History Project Launched! BOARD OF DIRECTORS Anthony C. Wood, Chair Elizabeth R. Jeffe, Vice-Chair Stephen Facey, Treasurer Lisa Ackerman, Secretary Daniel J. Allen Michele H. Bogart Susan De Vries Kent Diebolt Amy Freitag Shirley Ferguson Jenks Richard J. Moylan Otis Pratt Pearsall Gina Pollara Anthony W. Robins Bradley J. Vogel Duane A. Watson NEWSLETTER FALL 2015 Welcome to the 23rd edition of the newsletter of the New York Preservation Archive Project. The mission of the New York Preservation Archive Project is to protect and raise awareness of the narratives of historic preservation in New York. Through public programs, outreach, celebration, and the creation of public access to information, the Archive Project hopes to bring these stories to light. New York State Supreme Court Building in New York City, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Legal Oral History Project Launched! Initiative Aims to Capture Memories of Legal Figures Who Have Influenced the Landmarks Law The New York Preservation Archive Project Funds will also allow the creation of an is excited to announce the launch of a new educational model, based on this oral history 2015 Bard Birthday oral history project entitled Through the Legal project, which can be used to inspire and Breakfast Benefit Lens: Interviews with Lawyers Who Shaped NYC’s guide similar initiatives in locations across the Honoring Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Landmarks Law. Made possible through a United States. Lastly, the grant will be used with our Preservation Award grant from the Arthur F. & Alice E. Adams to help disseminate this model, including and featuring a Charitable Foundation, this initiative will developing and presenting an educational Conversation on Preservation with capture the memories of significant legal session at a national forum, and creating a Darren Walker and Paul Goldberger figures who have influenced the evolution portal on the Archive Project website where of New York City’s Landmarks Law. this guide will be permanently available December 9, 2015 Interviewees will include those who, over alongside other oral history resources. 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. the past four decades, have defended the Yale Club administration of the law, argued decisive The Archive Project is eager to begin 50 Vanderbilt Avenue preservation-related court cases, and worked capturing these significant stories and work to safeguard and augment the legal power towards creating a more comprehensive Tickets range from $75-$500 that protects the City’s architecture. record of the history of preservation! See pages 4-5 for more details. Page 1 ByEverything Anthony C. Wood, Founder & Chair Old is New Again In the years before the 1965 passage of were mounted to help draw attention to of transportation, landmarks the Scots New York’s Landmarks Law, engaged and New York City’s architectural treasures. The built, lost landmarks, existing landmarks, increasingly enraged New Yorkers worked 50th anniversary has been celebrated with no potential landmarks; landmarks here, there, through their civic organizations to employ fewer than ten new exhibitions. Currently and everywhere! Those 1950s pre-law exhibits, tours, plaques, public programs, on view and extended through the end of exhibits were only seen by a select crowd of and special publications to educate and the year is the blockbuster Saving Place: Fifty a few hundred, but today’s exhibitions have enlist a constituency to advocate for the Years of New York City Landmarks exhibition reached a broad and vast audience of tens preservation of New York City’s threatened at the Museum of the City of New York. (A of thousands. landmarks and historic neighborhoods. virtual smorgasbord of preservation-themed Even the airwaves were activated in 1961 Architectural walking tours, inaugurated with the first televised documentary on in New York City by the Municipal Art historic preservation in the City. Now, in Society in 1956, have long been a staple the midst of the gala celebration of the of preservation awareness. Thanks to 50th anniversary of New York City’s the 50th anniversary, walking tours Landmarks Law, I have been and bus tours have reached struck by the fact that these a new level of intensity. time honored education Whether a marathon all-day and advocacy tools— five borough bus tour of refined, reimagined and Art Deco treasures or often technologically numerous exhilarating upgraded—are still romps through the being used to educate City’s historic districts and enlist generations large and small, near of New Yorkers to and far, New Yorkers the cause of historic have gotten up close preservation. and personal to their history. Walk on, Certainly, the 50th New York! anniversary celebration has added some exciting The 1950s also debuted new approaches to the “Landmarks of New engaging the public. From York” plaque program of marathons in Central Park the New York Community to banners being flown across Trust. Thanks in part to the the City, from the illumination 50th anniversary, the Cultural of the Empire State Building to Medallion Program of the the ringing of the NASDAQ bell, Historic Landmarks Preservation and from preservation advocates looming Center has been in high gear mounting large on the Jumbotron screen in Times medallions on sites linked to figures ranging Square to the “Honor Our Past, Imagine from the Archive Project’s own favorite, the Our Future” billboard on the way to The George McAneny Award from the American preservation great Albert S. Bard (grandfather Kennedy airport, countless tools have been Historical Preservation Society (aka the American of our Landmarks Law and subject of an Scenic and Historic Preservation Society), sculpted by employed to get the message out to as many Paul Manship, Courtesy of Medallic Art Company article by yours truly in the latest issue of New Yorkers as possible. However, what has the Museum of the City of New York’s City fascinated me the most is not the wonderful exhibitions preceded it.) Organizations Courant) to former Congresswoman Bella new media being utilized but the continued ranging from the Alice Austen House and Abzug, former Mayor John Lindsay, and Dr. embrace and robust deployment of the very the Society of Illustrators to the New York Jonas Salk, who discovered the polio vaccine. tools that helped propel the passage of the School of Interior Design and the New York Landmarks Law in the first place. Transit Museum celebrated preservation As a young preservationist (yes, that was with exhibitions highlighting scenic decades ago) I questioned the value of these In the 1950s, several modest exhibitions landmarks, interior landmarks, landmarks old-fashioned preservation activities. Weren’t Page 2 walking tours and plaques examples of 1950s Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and Preservation Archive Project is having a preservation? Hadn’t we progressed beyond named for and made possible by its longtime new preservation medal cast and will present that? Shouldn’t our focus be on hard-edge president, prominent New York City civil it for the first time this December at our preservation policy issues and the politics servant George McAneny, it recognized annual Bard Birthday Breakfast Benefit (see of preservation? Do exhibitions, walking distinguished service to the cause of article on pages 4-5). The Archive Project’s tours, documentaries, medallions, and the preservation. Over the years it went to such Preservation Award will be presented vast array of public programs that have nationally prominent preservation figures as to individuals whose work exemplifies accompanied them actually save buildings? Major General Ulysses Simpson Grant, III, the preservation, documentation, and Do they really help move the needle for the Henry Francis du Pont, C.C. Burlingham, celebration of the history of preservation, cause of historic preservation? H.P. Pell, William Sumner Appleton, and which is the focus of our work. The award David Finley. will be given out periodically—when it is Today I have to answer that question with truly deserved. a resounding “yes.” Not only is constant In recent times, sadly but perhaps vigilance essential for preservation, so too is understandably, bestowing awards often There is no better time than the 50th the constant engagement of the public, one seems to be more about elevating an anniversary of the Landmarks Law to generation after another. These familiar tools inaugurate this award and no more deserving are indeed time honored. We keep using first recipient than Barbaralee Diamonstein- them—revised, inspired, and updated Spielvogel. Over the decades she has by what we have learned by new played a singular and decisive role in technologies—because they truly helping preservationists remember engage people. It is that personal and honor their own history. engagement that transforms a Personally, I remember passive New Yorker into a meeting with her to discuss passionate preservationist. the planning of the 15th anniversary celebration Another deeply rooted of the Landmarks Law! and cherished activity that has served historic Does preservation preservation well is need another award? the presentation of Another exhibition? awards. By recognizing Another walking the remarkable figures tour or another whose achievements plaque? Another represent their own documentary? Even values and missions, if the wrecking ball preservation and civic stopped swinging organizations put a tomorrow, the answer public spotlight on their would still be an emphatic efforts. In the 1940s and “yes.” All these
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