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Austin House HHT Vo l . 5 No . 4 Fall 2010 HISTORY BEGINS AT HOME. The Historic House Trust is a not-for-profit organization operating in tandem with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Our mission is to provide essential support for houses of architectural and cultural significance, spanning 350 years of New York City life. These treasures reside within city parks and are open to the public. OWNING HISTORY Making room for controversy, opinion, rumor and conjecture PRINTING OF THIS NEWS- LETTER IS GENEROUSLY UNDERWRITTEN BY FORBES A 2010 recreation of Alice Austen’s “Group on Tennis Grounds, July 23, 1886.” Photographer Steven Rosen presents PUBLISHED QUARTERLY a conjectural interpretation of Alice Austen’s original image. Austen’s family built a tennis court, and many of BY THE HISTORIC HOUSE her photographs were taken during tennis parties there. They included a wide range of family and friends whose TRUST of NEW YORK CITY. personal relationships would, at times, seep through the images. Some of these photographs, although they appear No part of this newsletter may to be impromptu, are in fact and out of necessity highly planned and choreographed tableaux. They include nuanced be reprinted without the symbols—the placement of tennis racquet, wine bottle, or cane, the angle of a hat, a shoulder slightly touching or permission of The Historic House a directed glance. These signs, seen as a language, give us clues for a fuller reading of gender, class, and social Trust of New York City, Inc. standards of the day. In recreating the image, photographer Steven Rosen magnifies these signs in the original ISSN 1083-379x. photograph to produce new images full of conjectures about interpersonal relationships in 2010. FALL 2010 H I STORI C HOU S E TRU ST OF NEW YORK CI TY H I STORI C HOU S E TRU ST OF NEW YORK CI TY M A K ING ABOUT THE H ISTORY AUTHORS A CCESSIBLE ————————————— Lillian Faderman, an award- FOR EVERY ONE winning author, has published sland Historical Society. ————————————— I eleven books, including In 2005, the Trust began Surpassing the Love of Men working with the Parks and Odd Girls and Twilight Department to complete ife Magazine. Lovers, which were both L an accessibility survey of named by the New York Times mages/ its 23 properties in order I on their list of Notable Books to meet current Americans etty G of the Year. Her work has with Disabilities Act (ADA) been translated into eight requirements for historic languages. Phyllis Irwin is a buildings. Several houses professor emerita of music, already have some level Austen House and Staten Alice Original photograph. a textbook author, and a very of accessibility, such as serious amateur photographer accessible routes, ramps, isenstaedt, 1951. Courtesy of E KHSKRWRJUDSKHU$OLFH who exhibits at the Spectrum entrances, interiors, and $XVWHQ ¥ ZDVWKH Gallery in Fresno, California. restrooms. Some sites, T SURSULHWRURI&OHDU&RPIRUW however, can never be made DQWKFHQWXU\6WDWHQ,VODQGKRPH fully accessible because of the hotograph by Alfred hotograph by P WKDWKDGEHHQSXUFKDVHGLQE\ size and interior configuration 6: P KHUZHDOWK\JUDQGIDWKHU:KHQ$OLFH of the structure, as is the case Alice Austen in front of Clear Comfort, 1951. Alice lost the house as a result of finacial difficulties in 1945; after ABOUT THE ZDVMXVWDIHZPRQWKVROGVKHDQG with the Little Red Lighthouse. her death in 1952, it fell into decay. In the 1960s, concerned citizens rallied to save the house from demolition. 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