by FREDERICK WINSHIP Ambassador Heads Revisiting Cuba, WMF in Europe Reviving an Architectural legacy

The Honorable Jenonne Walker, dous diplomat at WMF's ATCHING THE PALM TREES RUSH difficult times worse. Previously funding required for temporary recently appointed Vice President headquarters just prior to her W past the airplane window, I unthinkable concepts, notably stabilization ofroofs in Old Havana for Europe, assumed the newly departure for Paris. "I have done a relived the anguish ofa rainy Novem­ international tourism development at $2 million. But without private created post at the organization's lot of reading, walking, and looking, ber day, 38 years ago, when those and a parallel dollar economy, were wealth, residents cannot care for Paris office on November It 1998. so I was naturally interested in the trees had etched my last childhood introduced. While these measures their homes, and all preservation Walker retired in October as U.S. work WMF was already doing at memory ofCuba. That year, 1960, also brought some relief, increased rasks fall back ro the hisrorian. ambassador to the Czech Republic Valtice and Lednice castles when I marked the onset ofthe United States visitation posed an increasingly As increased economic develop~ after more than three years of arrived in Prague. I was able to assist blockade on Cuba. In the intervening evident threat as historic and natural ment accelerates the process of the fund in money-raising with transfor~ distinguished service. During her WMF INTERN LUKE YOUNG SHOWS CONSERVATION period, as the two countries drifted areas become vulnerable to change, preservationists inside and appointment to Prague, she became American companies with business WORK AT THE RENDEZVOUS FOLLY TO AMOASSADOR farther apart with little mutua! know­ mation for tourism. outside Cuba fear an avalanche that interested in WMF's work through its interests in the Czech RepUblic and I JENONNE WALKER. A'r LEFT, VICE PRESIDENT FOR ledge, drastic transformations occurred A few encouraging and innovative could devastate entire heritage sites, PROGRAMS JOHN STunes. projects in the Czech Republic, knew the minister of culture, which on both sides ofthe Florida Straits. responses have nevertheless as has already largely happened in notably the former Liechtenstein was a big help." castles-one baroque and the other What brought me back to Havana emerged_ In Havana, Trinidad, the historic resort ofVaradero. It is family castles of Valtice and Lednice The Valtice and Lednice castles, neo-Gothic-form a wonderful with a USIlCOMOS delegation was a Camaguey, and Santiago responsi~ unlikely that even the recent and their linking landscaped park taken over by the Communist complex and there are IS surviving deep concern for conserving the bility for negotiating and managing 2 land in southern Moravia. government, Walker said, have follies in the park." cultural heritage ofCuba. We found all tourism development has been 3 "I have always loved beautiful Hterrific potential for quality tourism Walker's roll at WMF will be to what has already been widely re­ entrusted to preservation authorities things and always have been an in a rural section ofthe country. bring focus to WMF's European ported: miraculously, Cuba's rich in the office ofeither the city amateur enthusiast of art and Prague is mobbed by tourists but the operation, coordinate efforts of the built heritage survived because, historian or conservator. This allows :' said the trim, viva- rest ofthe country isn't. The fund's European offices, attend beginning in 1960, the government the office to guide and limit develop­ functions on behalf ofWMF, and shifted development priorities from ment and, more important, to assist in locating potential future cities to the countryside. But in spite collect a percentage oftourist projects and partners. of this shift, or perhaps because ofit, revenues in dollars and pesos for THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY CAST1LLO OE LA I'll be traveling a lot, though I'll be Cuba developed a complex structure reinvestment in preservation FUERZA IN OLD HAVANA. working out of our office in Paris," ofheritage institutions staffed by projects or social programs inside protective mechanisms will be said Walker. HI know I was very preservation professionals who assumed the historic district. Unfortunately, effective in confronting the massive helpful to WMF in Prague and I'm the difficult responsibility ofsteward­ other historic cities like Ciego de economic interests mobilizing in very proud of that. I hope that now I ship under an endemic scarcity offunds. Avila, Matanzas, and Cienfuegos anticipation ofthe eventual lift of can be helpful on a broader scene in The collapse ofthe Soviet Union continue to scramble for funds. the U.S. blockade_ For that reason, Europe. I love the organization and and its support for Cuba made Even in Havana, the Office ofthe the international preservation what it does and the people involved." Historian helplessly confronts three community must play an active role

Walker has rented an apartment COLLAPSED HOUSE IN THE COLONIAL DISTRICT OF decades ofneglect and overuse that in supporting the efforts ofCuban in central Paris but will keep her Ow HAVANA. have left the urban fabric precarious. preservationists in developing valid home in Washington, D.C. A native During the rainy season/ historic responses that will conserve a of Purcell, Oklahoma-which was a structures often collapse. No one is unique heritage that only survived town of 3,000 with only two paved able to address the spalling and because ofextraordinary, accidental, streets when she was growing up­ defoliation that plagues the city's and at times painful, historical Walker received her Bachelor's characteristic late nineteenth~ and circumstances. degree from the University of early twentieth~century architec~ Oklahoma and studied at the tural ornamentation. One foreign GUSTAVO ARAOZ

CONT1NUEO ON PAC!; 15 expert estimates the minimum Executive Director, USIICOMOS by FR.EDERICK WINSHIP

• • WMF In omanIa Projects with World Bank Focus on Romania

HE WORLD MONU­ through Targu-Jiu to the and an anonymous pledge former parking garage T ments Fund has site oftwo Brancusi of$350,000 have been under the National become affiliated with the sculptures in stone, Gate of received. WMF has spent Parliament building. World Bank's new the Kiss and Table ofSilence. about $150,000 to date, has In December 1998, the Culture in Sustainable The unsuccessful attempt in excess of$5oo,000 in hand, World Bank approved an Development initiative. ofthe Communist govern~ and is still raising funds. LIL loan of$4.8 million WMF will collaborate with ment to pull down the Dr. Lois de Menil, a for the four projects to be the bank on cultural column during the 1950s WMF trustee who is a administered by the heritage projects in left it bent and the cultural adviser to the Romanian Ministry of Romania. "Our Romanian damaged metal cracked Romanian government, Culture. Ofthis, $2.6 project is our first partner­ and rusted, exposing the took the idea ofan LIL for million will go toward the BRANCUSI'S ENDLESS COLUMN DURING DISMANTLING OF MODULES, ship with a lending interior to water and the Brancusi to Brancusi. WMF has institution, and we believe financier and cultural Constantin Brancusi for corrosion. the government, which designated $600,000 it has great promise," said leaderJames W olfensohn, the village ofTargu-Jiu in In 1996, WMF joined then prepared a formal toward the project, which MODULE FROM THE ENDLESS COLUMN WMF President Bonnie the bank began to explore Romania, seemed an the restoration effort loan application involving will cost $6.7 million AFTER DISASSEMBLY. 4 Burnham. "A number of the possibility offinancing appropriate candidate for started by the Constantin three additional projects: overall. The government 5 our endangered sites cultural heritage projects World Bank funding. This Brancusi International stabilization oftwo ofRomania is contributing tion would prevent needed packaging in such and formed a Cultural towering construction of Foundation. The project Brancovan family palaces $1.3 million. The amount completion ofthe Roma­ a way that the projects Heritage Network, of 16 modular elements of entailed disassembly ofthe near ; economic allotted for the Endless nian projects from being could be raken ro the which WMF is a founding copper-coated iron pays corroding metal modules, development in four Column project is $3.7 strung out over many World Bank. That is member. InJanuary 1998 tribute to Romanian which are currently being historic Saxon villages in million, toward which years. She pointed out especially true ifa profit­ the bank announced a youths who died defend­ stored. Transylvania; and a WMF and the Romanian that it was the ministry's making aspect, such as Learning and Innovation ing the village, which is made a $100,000 grant to feasibility study for the government are each first experience working in tourism, is involved and Loan program (LIL) with near Brancusi's birthplace, WMF for the project last Romanian National contributing $550,000. partnership with private the economy ofthe general loans up to $5 million. in World War 1. June, and additional gifts Library, whose collections "This is one ofour very funding organizations. area can be improved." Smaller and more flexible "The Endless Column, of$50,000 from WMF vice are currently stored at 14 first cultural heritage loans "This has been an The World Bank than the bank's regular WMF's major project in chairman sites, including a damp and we have a lot to learn," example ofreal leadership concentrated on post­ loans, these will have a six­ Romania and our first said Thomas Blinkhorn, on the part ofthe World THE BRANCOVAN PALACE OF MOGOSOAIA OUTSIDE BUCHAREST, ONE OF THE VIEW Of TARGU-JlU AND THE World War II reconstruc­ month approval process project with the World the World Bank's team Fund and SITES THAT WILL UE RESTORED THROUGH THE WORLD BANK PROGRAM. ENDLESS COLUMN. tion for several years after instead ofthe usual two Bank, is one ofthe leader for the project. "It represents a wonderful its founding in 1946 and years. The loans have a greatest works ofoutdoor has been fortunate to have convergence ofinterests in then shifted emphasis to generous grace period for sculpture ofthe twentieth the World Monuments using cultural patrimony economic development to repayment and an extreme­ century and almost no one Fund's experience in to open up new economic relieve poverty. Oflate it ly modest interest rate. has seen it," said Ms. Romania, and in Targu~Jiu, opportunities," she said. has aided former Commu­ Ofthe sites on the 1996 Burnham. It has signifi­ in particular, for a project "For WMF this is a nist-bloc countries in their and 1998 World Monu­ cant potential as an object that will revitalize one of significant new opportu~ transition from authori­ ments Watch lists the for cultural pilgrimage." the great artistic creations nity to make a real tarian to democratic rule. 100-foot Endless Column, The column is sei: on a of the twentieth century." difference in addressing In 1997, at the instiga­ designed by world­ hillside at the terminus of Dr. de Menil said the the needs ofheritage tion ofits president, renowned sculptor an axis that runs for a mile World Bank's participa- conservation." by REBECCA ANDERSON

Fort Apache: Renewal Begins American Express Funding to Rescue Neglected U.S. Landmark

"The World Monuments Watch program has turned up many sites outside the American cultural the White Mountain Apache mainstream that began with the colonies. The U.S. cultural heritage is, in particular, tied to the Heritage Program housed at a new cultural center and museum opened diversity ofour cultural experience." WMF PRESIDENT BONNIE BURNHAM in 1997. "Apache peoples' responses "PORT APACHE IS ON THE VERGE OF Monuments Watch sites in the 1985. Meanwhile the hisroric to American westward expansion renewaL" Dallas Massey, Sr.) United States receiving American buildings continued ro decline. were varied and changeable. The chairman ofthe White Mountain Express grants this year, the other Why do sites such as Fort Apache presentation ofa distinct and Apache Tribe announced to over being Mesa Verde in Colorado. deteriorate despite official designa~ differenr Apache voice we hope will 100 public officials, tribe dignitaries, Conservation at Fort Apache has tion? WMF President Bonnie provide the public with a betrer preservationists, and travel and had an uneven hisrory. The tribe Burnham points to the struggle in understanding ofthe complex social tourism industry representatives at established a cultural center in 1969. the United States for the recogni­ changes that occurred here." the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Later, a bicentennial grant funded tion ofhistoric sites that do not have As a nation ofmany immigrants Arizona on November 12, 1998. the reuse ofthe last survivor ofthe pleasing aesthetic values. "Fort and their descendants, many of American Express Senior Vice seven original barracks. The Apache is a good example ofa site of whom arrived only in the last President Gordon Smith and WMF 288-acre Fort Apache Historic secondary architectural significance century, few have any direct connec~ THE FIRE-SCARRED RUINS Of THE LAST SURVIVING BARRACKS AT FORT APACHE, 6 Vice President Laurie Beckelman District was listed on the National bur so completely imbued wirh tion to Fort Apache. Americans 7 presented Chairman Massey an Register ofHistoric Places in 1976, historical importance that it has to Tribe, and the Arizona State "The Apaches see an opportunity nevertheless inherit a whole history $80,000 check representing a World coinciding with the dedication of be there/' she said. Lottery Heritage Fund. At the and a responsibility to history," said and responsibility for its communi~ Monuments Watch grant for the museum, where William Major, "Renewal will bring many more reception Massey announced the John Welch, the tribe's historical cation. As readily as we celebrate the emergency stabilization ofthe 28 the last Apache scout, led the pledge people to this beautiful part of creation ofthe Fort Apache Heri~ architect and preservation officer Fourth ofJuly, we must embrace historic buildings at Fort Apache. ofallegiance. A fire destroyed the Arizona," said Chairman Massey. tage Foundation. One member of and one ofmany non-Apaches sites such as Forr Apache. "There Fort Apache is one oftwo World museum and its entire collection in While Fort Apache already receives the new foundation's board is working for the tribe. "Fort Apache have been conscious efforts to several hundred visitors a month, basketball legend Kareem Abdul­ was not built or operated for the eradicate that tangible evidence," most come from abroad rather than ]abbar, the current assistant coach noblest of reasons, but it falls to the Burnham said. "But since Fort Apache from the United States, even ofAlchesay High School's basketball Apaches to turn the place around, in recent years has had vocal advocates Arizona. "But, just as important, team. Abdul-Jabbar discovered Fort offering a chance to present their ofpreservation within the tribe there will be a renewal ofspirit and Apache while preparing a book on story to visitors." That story there is an opportunity for change." opportunity for the members ofrhe the "buffalo soldiers," black troops encompasses the history ofhuman White Mountain Apache Tribe, stationed in the southwest after the settlement in the area, which the returning us to self~determination Civil War who received their tribe's 1993 master plan has identi­ and selfsufficiency, using the nickname as a token ofrespect from fied as Pre~European Contact resources on our land." the Native Americans. Period (before 1400); Apache Period Partners in the various phases of "World Monuments Watch listing (1400-1870); Military Period (1870­ the project include Arizona State has bolsrered the tribe's efforts to 1922); and the Theodore Roosevelt Parks and the National Parks prompr the U.S. Department ofrhe School Era (1922-presenr). Service Rivers and Trails Conserva­ Interior to bring the historic buildings The experience at Fort Apache is tion Assistance Division. Other into compliance with the Secretary rich and varied. "The composition of FROM LEfT: GORDON SMITH, VICE PRESIDENT Of major donors are the Bureau of ofthe Interior's Standards," said the fort was multicultural-from AMERICAN EXPRESS IN PHOENIX; BETH SALERNO, Indian Affairs, the U.S. Department Laurie Beckelman. As soon as these Anglo and buffalo soldiers to PRESIDENT Of THE AMERICAN EXPRESS FOUNDA­ TION; LAURIE BECKELMAN, VICE PRES!OENT Of ofHousing and Urban Develop­ buildings are broughr up to code, Apache scours," said Raymond WMF; AND DALLAS MASSEY, CHAIRMAN Of THE ment, the White Mountain Apache the tribe will assume full control. Kane, a tribe member who directs WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBE. by REBECCA ANDERSON Preservation igh School Planned for ewYork

AJOR DONATIONS IN 1998, FROM preservation arts (the brainchild of new high school. Last spring! "Preser~ ARTISAN ARCHITECT PROMOTES M Virginia Gilder, rhe Florence City Council Member Kenneth varion Week" provided students with NEW CURRICULUM Gould Foundation, and the Heckscher Fisher) and discussion with city three days ofpreservation,enriched Conservation architect Kate include industry-sponsored field Foundation for Children signifi­ agencies as well as artisans and lessons. Noted local and national Ottavino believes in the primacy of internships, giving graduates the cantly boosted WMF's participation industry. With support from the preservationists, including city an artisan's perspective over the equivalent ofa one-year apprentice­ in the creation ofa Rockefeller Brothers Fund, WMF Landmarks CommissionerJeunifer purely academic. Her work in ship in a chosen trade. Graduates high school for . researched the economic impact of Raab and Frank Sanchis, a vice private industry as vice president of may proceed to lucrative, skilled The other partners in this effort are restoration craft training. As part of president ofthe National Trust for A. Ottavino Corporation-founded jobs in the restoration industry, at the Center for Architecture and this project.. Kate Orravino, vice Historic Preservation, visited the in 1913 by her paternal grandfa­ pursue college, and advanced degrees Building Science Research at the president ofthe A. Ottavino school to participate in the lessons. ther, an Italian stone cutter­ "I learned using the same ap­ NewJersey Institute ofTechnology Corporation and director ofpreser­ NJIT will work with the school again INSTRUCTORS AND HIGH SCHO ERNS BY includes the Dakota Apartments, proach that we are defining for the (NJIT), and the New York City vation technology at the NJIT's in 1999. STANfORD WHITS'S PERISTYLE IN PROSPECT PARK. the U.S. Custom House, and the preservation high school: looking at Board ofEducation. center for Architecture and Building Last summer, a second internship Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art. the structure block-by-block," said building on West 44th Street. Here "WMF has long advocated training Science Research, developed a craft focused on the stabilization ofthe At the Center for Architecture and Ottavino. She first encountered we were worl

University, the National (part ofa three-year grant Though the Center for support work that will re~ $30,000. Consevation has use must be found for the University ofSingapore, of$100,000 for the center). Khmer Studies is still move the immediate danger. been complered under the building, which has been the University of Florida, Twenty-eight specialists evolving, the workshop The 24 Elevators of leadership ofthe Associa- vacant since 1995. and the University of from nine countries- made significant progress Valparaiso, , tion for the Restoration of In the , Hawaii at Manoa. including 10 Cambodians- toward its development. funiculars built between the Danan Synagogue, the W orId Monuments The planning stage discussed the center's Many felr that the center 1883 and 1915 to facilitate which is working with the Fund in Britain has (1998-2001) focuses first structure and coordination should start slowly and pedestrian traffic (and still Moroccan Ministry of sponsored a feasibility on establishing the with the University of build programs little by in use), were listed as a Culture in its campaign to study for the St. Vincent center-the selection ofa Beaux Arts in Phnom little. Most significantly, World Monuments Watch safeguard Fez. The project Street Church in Glasgow, director and staffand Penh and Siem Reap. the individual and institu~ site in 1996 because of is part ofthe UNESCO Scotland, in preparation expansion ofthe consor~ has no tional telationships forged their advanced state of restoration campaign for for application to the tium membership-and existing scholarly research will be the backbone ofthe deterioration. This rhe medina ofFez. Heritage Lortery Fund. DR. CLAUDE JACQUES OF THE ECOLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTS IhuDES, WHO on developing preliminary tradition nor any advanced center as the consortium tesulted in a $40,000 The possible demolition The Greek revival edifice PARTICIPATED IN WMF's Flll;,ST MISSION IN 1988, SPEAKING AT THE impor~ CENTER FOR KHMER STUDIES PLANNING MEETING IN JANUARY. programs. It is hoped that degree programs. Cambo- grows and develops to American Express grant ofa modernist treasure in is one ofthe most the nonprofit center, with dians need enhanced fulfill the mission ofthe and the recent designation Brussels, Belgium, the tant nineteenth~century II 10 Cambodia grandest cultural monu~ its own staffand programs, resources, such as com~ Center for Khmer Studies. ofall the elevators as Former Radio and monuments in Scotland Center for Khmer Studies ments, WMF has initiated will eventually be ;ecog­ puter facilities and historical monuments by Television Building (1938, and, as an endangered site Planned by WMF at Angkor the establishment ofthe nized as part ofthe Council publications. The center World Monuments the National Council of designed byJoseph on the 1998 World Monu- In 2000, WMF will Center for Khmer Studies. ofAmerican Overseas offers an opportunity to Watch Updates Monuments ofChile. Diongre), led to its ments Watch list, attracted complete its planned The center will be located Research Centers (CAORC). encourage and reinforce In Canada, the Gulf of Now that they are pro- placement on the 1998 a $50,000 Ametican decade offield work in Siem Reap, the modern investment in Cambodia's Georgia Cannery in tected, conservation work World Monuments Express Company grant. involving conservation of city adjacent to Angkor, higher level educational Richmond, British can begin. Watch list. Maison de la A $32,000 grant from the Preah Khan temple and will also have a U.S. structure. It will provide Columbia, ceased opera~ The seventeenth~century Radio Flagey, a local group American Express to complex within the 1,000­ office. (WMF's headquar­ Cambodians and their tion in 1979 and opened to Ibn Danan Synagogue in incorporated lastJune to Mesa Verde in Colorado year-old Khmer capital­ ters in New York and the foreign counterparts with the public in 1994 to Fez, a World Monuments care for the building, has supported ongoing religious center ofAngkor Preah Khan project field opportunities for teaching interpret the country's Watch endangered site in raised funds for asbestos research and field work by Conser~ in Cambodia. In anticipa­ house in Siem Reap will FROM LEFT: PRINCE SISOWATH, and research in Khmer west coast fishing indus- 1996, and received an removal, the first priority. the Architectural tion, it has launched new provide the initialloca~ DEAN OF ARCHITECTURE, ROYAL civilization, art and try. A 1995 study revealed American Express grant of After renovation, a new vation Laboratory ofthe UNIVERSITY OF FINE ARTS (RUFA), infesta~ activities there. tions.) English, French, PNOM PENH; CHOUCH POERN, architectural history, and widespread insect Graduate Program in Using Preah Khan as a and Khmer will be the MINISTRY OF CULTURE; HOR LAT, conservation. tion and dry rot that Historic Preservation at DEAN OF , RUFA. field classroom, WMF official languages ofthe Seminar participants threatened to destroy the the Univetsity ofPennsyl- developed training center, which will be run FromJanuary 11 to 15, represented the fields of building. World Monu- vania and the N adonal programs for Cambodian by a consortium of 1999, WMF hosted an education, South East ments Watch listing in Park Service The program students and local workers. institutions initially led by international planning Asian studies, and cultural 1998 helped generate will develop and imple- Now, with an eye on the WMF and including, as workshop in Phnom Penh resource management. media coverage, calling ment a conservation future when Cambodia founding members, and Siem Reap, under­ The workshop concluded attention also to the program for the architec~ would be able ro rake APSARA (the Cambo­ written by a $30,000 gtant with a set ofrecommended ptoblems faced by large tural surface finishes of charge ofthe preservation dian government agency from the Henty R. Luce goals, strategies, issues, industrial wooden struc~ the renowned cliff dwell- ofAngkor as the country's for the protection of Foundation wirh supple­ and initiatives towards tures. In 1998, the Cana- ings, which rank among the realization ofthis new dian government provided the most significant of premier cultural symbol Angkor), the Asia Society mentary funds from the WORLD MONUMENTS WATCH LISTING HELPED SAVE THE GULl' OF GEORGIA and one ofthe world's ofN ew York, Cornell C.V. Starr Foundation institution. more than $1 million to CANNERY, A VALUA6LE REMINDER OF NORTH AMERICA'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE. ancestral Puebloan sites. by FREDERICK WINSHIP

Richard He Jenrette

Richard Hampton jenrette, the nation's foremost Corp. two years later and, in 1987, Jenrette made the house a veritable is an advisory board member ofthe private preservationist, received the World chairman ofEquitable Life Assur­ museum ofFederal furnishing, as he U.s. Capitol Commission, and a Monuments Fund's 10th Hadrian Award on October ance Society. He has now retired has his other houses. (He eventually member ofthe visiting committees of Ameri~ 23, 1998 at a benefit luncheon at the Plaza Hotel. from business and written a candid became the owner ofthe largest the Metropolitan Museum's account ofhis unorthodox ap~ private collection offurniture by can Wing and the U.S. State Specializ;ing in the elegant architec­ The kid from Raleigh majored in proaches to corporate management Duncan Phyfe.) Department's diplomatic reception ture, art, and domestic furnishings journalism at the University of in the bookJenrette: The Contrarian Edgewater once belonged to the rooms, and is currently involved in ofthe Federal era-which mirrored North Carolina. But on his gradua­ Manager. manorial Livingston family ofNew the restoration ofthe interior ofNew the classical philosophic roots ofthe tion in 1951, he became an insurance Askedwhether his success in York. Other Livingston properties York's City HalL young republic and proclaimed its salesman like his father. This led to business parallels his capacity to include Montgomery Place, a Jenrette modestly attributes his aspirations to greatness-Richard his enrollment at Harvard's Gradu­ restore old houses, he replied, "I neighboring house in whose restora~ multi~faceted activities in the historic H. Jenrette has restored seventeen ate School of Business from which seem to have a penchant for restor­ tionJenretre played a leading role. preservation field to good citizenship. grand houses and calls six ofthem he received a master's degree in 1957. ing companies that get in trouble." In recognition of his championing "Wherever you are you have to sort of home (although they are open to Jenrette went to work for Brown "I think I'm probably a 'house­ preservation activities in the area, become a good citizen," he said. visitors). Eventually the Classical Brothers Harriman and Co. in New aholie: I've always been drawn to Historic Hudson Valley, a nonprofit "Though I'm probably fighting on too American Homes Preservation York and then the New England old houses," he said. "They're sort of organization that manages six many fronts." 13

RICHARD H. JENRETTE ACCEPTING THE 1998 Trust, which Jenrette fou;'ded, will Mutual Life Assurance Society. In a challenge and I like challenges. historic sites open to the public, HADRlAN AWARD. operate them. Ayre Mount, an 1815 1959 he cofounded the investment When I see an old house that was named him to its board in 1985 (he Federal plantation house near banking and securities firm of once beautiful and has fallen on hard served as chairman from October Hillsborough, NC, already is a Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. times and run down, something in 1987 to February 1994), functioning museum. "Ifyou're with two Harvard classmates and me feels that it should be saved, Other outstanding properties fortunate enough to come upon an was on his way to becoming the fixed up, and restored to its former restored by Jenrette include a Greek old house and get it, you're sort ofa Wall Street legend who salvaged the glory. I think we need to resurrect to Revival mansion with American custodian to your peers on it," said Equitable Companies ofNew York learn from the past, not that we Empire furnishings on the Battery in Jenrette. "I have six historic houses from insolvency. Equitable had can't improve things, but somebody Charleston, Sc, a Greek Revival and I can't be in them all the time. I acquired Donaldson, Lufkin & has to not bulldoze everything." plantation house near Pinewood, think it would be very selfish never Jenrette in 1984. Jenrette became Edgewater was one ofJenrette's SC, and a neo-Palladian great house to let other people enjoy them." president ofEquitable Investment first preservation projects. He on St. Croix, a charred ruin which In an interview at Edgewater, his bought the estate in 1969 from he rebuilt from original architectural stately 1820 property on the banks author Gore Vidal, who had found renderings. ofthe Hudson River at Barrytown, it abandoned after World War II Jenrette has served as a trustee of NY, Jenrette recalled rhat he and made it habitable, Jenrette the National Trust for Historical showed an artistic bent as a youth in restored it to the magnificence it Preservation and chairman ofthe North Carolina that foreshadowed had enjoyed as the home ofanother National T rust Council, as well as a

his interest in architectural preserva­ North Carolinian, Robert trustee ofthe New York Historical AT THE HADRIAN AWARD LUNCHEON WITH VARTAN GREGORIAN, tion. "When I was a kid I used to Donaldson, a retired New York Society, the University ofNorth PRESIDENT OF CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK. draw," he said. "Everybody said I'd commission merchant who had Carolina, the Duke Endowment, grow up to be an architect. I didn't. I bought Edgewater in 1852. Follow­ and the Rockefeller Foundation, and think it's better to be able to hire an FROM LEFT: , 1997 AWARD ing Donaldson's inventory of also as a member ofthe Harvard RECIPIENT; WMF CHAIRMAN MA[l,ILYN PERRY; architect." RlCHARD H. JENRETTE. furniture, paintings, and portraits, University Board ofOverseers. He France are supporting a scholar­ WMF Receives $1 History and WMF was New Staff BOARD World Monuments ship for a young conserva~ Million Bequest held on November 16, James Harris, a Brown OF TRUSTEES Fund France tor-in-training. In addi~ from 1998 at the university's University graduate in WMF France has raised tion, special funding raised Philanthropist Paul Schermerhorn Hall Ancient Studies, is WMF's Marilyn Perry 1.4 million francs from through the Friends of Mellon died on February auditorium. The topic was new development associate. Chairman European donors for the Assisi will restore the 1, 1999. The long-time introduced by WMF restoration ofthe Theatre fifteenth-century village WMF benefactor made a President Bonnie Burnham. lisa Kahn, recently named Han. Ronald $. Lauder du Trianon at Versailles. church ofS. Anna in bequest of$1 million to Guest panelists were development officer, comes H. Peter Stern Vice Chairmen The Robert W. Wilson Mocali near the quake the World Monuments Randolph Harris, execu- to WMF from the New Challenge for Conserving epicenter. The Friends' Fund. Mr. Mellon received tive director ofHistoric York Botanical Garden, Robert W. Wilson Our Heritage will match first project, the Pieve di the second annual Preservation ofLancaster where she worked as Vice Chairman and Treasurer these non~U.S. private San Gregorio, an impor~ Hadrian Award in 1989. County, and research administrator and

donors to WMF's affiliate tant twelfth-century He had a special interest Sally Elk, chairman of the development associate. Robert]. Geniesse 1:1, and the Florence church in Castel Ritaldi, is in projects in the United Eastern State Penitentiary Secretary and General Counsel Gould Foundation is well underway. Meanwhile, Kingdom. A previous $1 Pennsylvania Prison Scott Leurquin, WMF's contributing $100,000. the World Monuments million gift launched the Society. new director of develop~ Paul Beirne Fund in Britain is raising London-based World Dr. Stephen Murry, ment, formerly directed ]. Carter Brown money to restore the Monuments Fund in head ofColumbia's art the annual giving pro- W. L. Lyons Brown,]r. Associazione Comitato rwelfth-century Church of Britain, and supported the history department and gram at the State Univer- Bonnie Burnham Italiano WMF San Silvestro in Bevagna. affiliate's projects through- Dr. William Brumfield, sity ofNew York College Mica Ertegun On December 11, 1998, out the country. professor ofSlavic Studies ofOptometry. Patricia Falk Louise L. Grunwald the Comitato Italiano United Kingdom at Tulane University, led 15 Ashton Hawkins celebrared the co';'pleted World Monuments WMF Seminars programs on Beauvais Mark Weberjoined Prince Amyn Aga Khan restoration ofthe Bardi di Fund in Britain with Columbia Cathedral and St. Peters- WMF's staffin September Perer Kimmelman Vernio Chapel at the Fall benefits at the Lord University burg, respectively, on in the new position of Jonathan S. Linen Church ofSanta Croce in Chancellor's Residence The first roundtable in a February 8 and March 1. technical director. Director Lois de Menil Florence, with its frescoes and the home ofLord new series for the current Two more are planned for since 1986 ofthe Technical Samuel C. Miller by Maso di Banco. The Norwich have helped raise academic year, "Heritage this year: April 12, Dr. Services Center at the New Peter M. F. Sichel occasion coincided with money for the British Conservation: Priorities Amir Pasic on Mostari York Landmarks Conser- Gayfryd Steinberg the release ofa book about affiliate as well as enlarge and Conflicts," organized and May 3, John Sanday vancy, Weber cowrote, Bertrand du Vignaud Maso di Banco, one of the International Council. by Columbia University's on Angkor. Please call with Jane Mulvagh, Newport Paolo Viti Giotto's most significant On January 13, 1999, 100 Media Center for Art WMF for details. Houses (Rizzoli Interna- Nancy Brown Wellin pupils, by Casa Editrice WMF members and friends tional Publications, 1989). Electa. At the reception, attended a champagne the Comitato announced reception at Home House Contributors it's next project: the Porta in London. Berkeley Adam Rebecca Anderson is WMF's Bizantina di San Paolo in Ltd., the owner and event director ofpublications. , which the Pope sponsor, recently finished will open onJanuary 18, restoring the beautiful Architect Gustavo Araoz, 2000 for theJubilee. Georgian structure, which a native ofCuba, has was under consideration been executive director of Assis; Appeal for World Monuments USIICOMOS since 1995. Friends of Assisi, founded Watch listing until its new last year under WMF owner withdrew the Frederick Winship, cultural auspices to work on the application during selec­ editor at United Press WMF's NICOLE NICHOLS, MARTHA FLACH, contribu~ SECHLER, AND JON CALAME, WITH IE CIRQUE'200 restoration ofAssisi's tion panel proceedings International, is a THE PRIZE,WINNl'N'G GINGER6READ CHURCH 01' THE Basilica di San Francesco, two years ago. tor to MllfSIOm. WMF STAFF DIRECTORY 949 Park Avenue New Yorl<, NY 10028 Bonnie Burnham, President European Offices telephone: (212) 517-9367 Han.Jenonne Walker, Vice President for Europe telefax: (212) 517-9494 www.worldmonuments.org Administration Irene Bareis, Bt!Siness Manager; Daniel Burke, Colin Amery, SpecialAdvisor; Donatella Asta, Office Miwager; Jon Calame, Spedal Projects Program Representative; Isabelle de Manager; Nicole Nichols, Assistant to the Broglie, European Representative; Stephen European Offices and Affiliates President; Johnette Pride, Receptionist Eddy, Director of Programs-Italy; Ann Mytton, Director of Development (WMF in EUROPEAN HEADQUARTERS/

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