New York Landmarks Conservancy Annual Report 2005

Contents

From our President 1

Protecting Historic Assets 2

Providing Architectural Expertise 6

Saving Sacred Sites 8

Funding Historic Restorations 11

Preserving Upper Manhattan 13

Assisting Nonprofits 14

Honoring Achievement 15

Celebrating Living Landmarks 16

Supporting our Success 19

Our Financial Statement 28

Our Board & Staff 29

In 2005, the Conservancy surveyed historic Catholic churchesacross the City, such as St. Anselm in the South Bronx. St.Anselm’s decorated domed interior features Byzantine andRomanesque motifs, created by German Benedictine monks inthe 1920s. The church was designed by Anton Kloster and constructed in 1907.

Photo Credits

Front Cover: Beth Bates for Common Ground CommunityPage 3, below: Tim Lynch for Robert Silman Associates, P.C.Page 4, above: Edward Sudentas, Wired New YorkPage 12, above right; Beth Bates for Common Ground CommunityPage 12, below right: Don SutherlandPage 15, below left: The Kibel CompaniesPage 15, below right: Greenwich Village Society for

Historic PreservationPages 16-18: Mary Hilliard

Page 21, left: Courtesy of the 168th Street ArmoryPage 23: Mary HilliardPage 26: Ken LustbaderPage 27, above left: Joe VerickerPage 27, below left: Patrick McMullanPage 27, right: Side DesignsPage 29: Todd France for Common Ground Community

Additional photography by Conservancy staff: Ann-Isabel Friedman, Andrea Goldwyn, Alex Herrera, James Mahoney, Lucy Roche, and Amy Sullivan.

2005 was a challenging year, with threats to beloved landmarks and to an important federalpreservation tool. As New York’s real estate market skyrockets, those challenges will continue.That’s why we’re so grateful to you for helping to keep the Conservancy strong—and for yourown responses to our calls for action.

Dismay over the residential conversion of The Plaza Hotel drew an outpouring of support fromNew Yorkers and from people around the country and around the world. Even the epic fight tosave Penn Station did not draw this universal attention. While the great hotel is gone, the wide-spread demand to save the Ballroom, Oak Room, Palm Court and other memory-filled publicspaces was successful. Unfortunately, the massive new retail uses proposed for the building, andpossibly some of the landmarked rooms, still threaten the historic fabric.

The Plaza was a painful reminder that we must pro-actively landmark other great interiors andother buildings that have meaning to New Yorkers. We cannot assume that anything is “safe.”

Sometimes, even landmarking doesn’t offer the protection we think it should. The parish houseof Mother Seton Shrine at the foot of State Street dates from 1799. It’s a highly significant Federalbuilding and the only reminder of the mansions that once lined the tip of Manhattan. Excavationsfor the South Ferry subway station brought rock-blasting and pile-driving within a few feet of theShrine and damaged the building. When the pastor called the Conservancy for help, we reachedout to the Archdiocese of New York, the City Landmarks Commission, and the MetropolitanTransportation Authority. We helped the Shrine to document the damage and get vibration moni-tors placed on the building. We also are now working with the Landmarks Commission on newprotocols for monitoring and protecting historic buildings when construction occurs nearby.

While Mother Seton has landmark status, the New York Archdiocese has been looking atchurches to close in Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx. We began an extensive survey toidentify architecturally important Catholic churches in preparation for the official closingannouncements. If these beautiful buildings are destroyed, the face of neighborhoods across theCity will be drastically altered.

Amid this, it was a pleasure to honor Mayor Ed Koch as one our “Living Landmarks” this yearand recognize his preservation legacy. Mayor Koch marched with Jacqueline Onassis to saveGrand Central Station; his corporation counsel successfully defended the City’s landmarks lawbefore the U.S. Supreme Court; he appointed the first, full-time City Landmarks Commissioner;and, during his administration, the Landmarks Commission had the largest staff and budget in itshistory. While Mayor Koch’s many other accomplishments have been well documented, it waswonderful to highlight these significant preservation achievements.

Nationally, the questionable practices of one group promoting preservation easements resultedin a Congressional threat to severely restrict this important protection. The Conservancy workedwith the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois,and other longstanding easement holding groups to set up “best practices” and—in a first forus—testified before the House Ways and Means Oversight Committee in June. More reasonablereforms are now also being considered in Congress.

While the major battles were occurring, our regular array of financial, technical, and advocacyprograms were helping building owners, promoting new landmarks, and continuing efforts tobuild Moynihan Station within the landmark Farley Post Office and to find adaptive uses for theiconic former TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport.

It’s a full plate. But fighting to save New York great architectural her-itage is one of the most rewarding efforts we can imagine.

h From the President

1Peg Breen, President

A respected voice across the City, State, and U.S., the New York LandmarksConservancy speaks out for preservation at all levels of government. Our testimo-ny and expertise helped secure new law, designate several buildings as landmarks,and guide the reuse of historic sites in 2005. Our expert advice also guided theplanning process of several important preservation projects citywide.

Preserving the Plaza

The Conservancy launched a major advocacy and educational effortfor the historic Plaza Hotel, the site of our Living Landmarks gala formany years. Its new owners closed the hotel in mid-April to convertmost rooms into condominiums and the lower floors for retail use.The Plaza’s façades, designed by architects Henry J. Hardenbergh in1907 and by Warren & Wetmore in 1921, are protected as a desig-nated exterior landmark, but its world-class interiors were at risk.These included the Palm Court, Schulze & Weaver’s 1927 GrandBallroom and Terrace, the Oak Room and Oak Bar, the EdwardianRoom, and both the 59th Street and Fifth Avenue lobbies.

We placed a full-page advertisement in the New York Times inMarch, calling for landmark designation of these great spaces, andwe received widespread, unprecedented public support. TheLandmarks Preservation Commission promptly held a hearing inJune, and the interiors were designated in July. We further defendedthe interiors’ preservation before the Landmarks and City Planning commissions, where weopposed the special zoning relief sought by the Plaza’s owners to greatly increase retail use.

Defending Easements

The Conservancy testified on June 23 before a Congressional Hearing in Washington, held by theHouse Ways and Means Oversight Committee. The hearing reviewed the tax deduction for preser-vation easements and focused on the process that determines the easements’ appraised values.

An IRS representative confirmed that no standard deduction or “safe harbor” for preservationeasements exists; instead, each easement must be appraised individually. A variety of factors needto be weighed, including whether the property is locally designated. Many of the most pointedquestions were directed at the representative of National Architectural Trust, the nonprofit groupthat has been aggressively marketing easements in New York City and elsewhere.

The Conservancy and the National Trust for Historic Preservation defended preservation ease-ments. We advised that easement appraisers be specifically trained and supervised. We recom-mended that in cases of high-appraised valuations, a threshold should be set that, when exceeded,would require a second independent appraisal. We also encouraged easement holders to makeperiodic inspections, and we recommended that they receive sufficient funds for legal needs oremergency repairs. We closed our remarks by stressing how preservation easements save ournation’s heritage and can be managed responsibly by organizations like the Conservancy. Anyrevision to the tax code concerning preservation easements will come in 2006.

h Protecting Historic Assets

The Plaza’s Fifth Avenue Lobby

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Lobbying Nationwide

On a national level, the Conservancy lobbied for addi-tional funding for State Historic Preservation Offices.We also worked closely with the New York State delega-tion to maintain federal funding for the transformationof the Farley Post Office into Moynihan Station.

In March, at the first ever Preservation Lobby Day inAlbany, we also continued to urge the enactment of astate Homeowner Tax Credit.

Locally, we celebrated the enactment of the “AvellaBill,” for which we had lobbied in 2004. Sponsored by

City Councilmember Tony Avella of Queens, the bill gives the Commission authority to issuewarning letters and assess civil fines if building owners fail to keep their historic properties in goodrepair. This will prevent the “demolition by neglect” of deteriorating landmarks and contributingbuildings in historic districts.

At three oversight hearings held by committees of the City Council, we suggested improvementsto the Commission’s practices. Although we criticized the pace of designations, we called for morefunding and staff that would allow the Commission to better execute its duties.

Acheiving Victories

Our testimonies before the Landmarks PreservationCommission helped achieve designations across the bor-oughs in 2005.

In downtown Brooklyn, two former department storeson Fulton Street—Namm’s (1924) and Offerman’s (1891)—were designated. In Queens, the Douglaston HillHistoric District, a small enclave of Victorian and ColonialRevival homes overlooking Little Neck Bay, received des-ignation. Also landmarked was the Ralph Bunche Housein Kew Gardens, Queens: the 1927 Tudor Revival-style former home of this distinguished African-American diplomat .

In Manhattan, we helped designate the Keuffel & Esser Building on Fulton Street in LowerManhattan and the Summit Hotel (later Loew’s), a 1964 modernist work of architect MorrisLapidus at 51st Street and Lexington Avenue.

Despite opposition from the buildings’ owners, theexpert testimony that we marshaled influenced theCommission’s decision to designate two prominentbuildings endangered by disuse and neglect: the 1811Robert and Anne Dickey House at 67 Greenwich Streetin Lower Manhattan and the 1881 WindermereApartments at Ninth Avenue and West 57th Street. Wealso successfully opposed a replacement building pro-posed in the Ladies Mile Historic District that wouldhave razed a former stable at 16 West 18th Street.

We also influenced proposed alterations to historicsites. Our testimony supported a mixed-use facility forCongregation Shearith Israel on West 70th Street andsupported a slender tower at 610 Lexington Avenueadjacent to the landmark Seagram Building.

The Windermere

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Maura Moynihan, Senator Hillary Clinton,and Peg Breen at an event supportingMoynihan Station.

16 West 18th Street

Fighting Losses

The Conservancy lobbied the City Council to give final approval to the land-mark status of two signficant sites facing redevelopment pressures: the AustinNichols & Company Warehouse on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn, a1913 design by the renowned architect, Cass Gilbert; and the Elmhurst Branch ofthe Jamaica Savings Bank, Queens, a 1969 modernist structure. The Council,however, overturned both of their designations.

We rallied alongside our colleagues to urge the Commission to grant a publichearing on whether 2 Columbus Circle should landmarked. After much contro-versial and public debate, the Commission refused, and legal challenges to its saleand redevelopment of were lost. Consequently, the dismantling of the distinctivecurving facade of architect Edward Durrell Stone’s 1964 structure began.

The Conservancy also fought to save several, nineteenth century docks and stone and brickwarehouses from a former New York shipyard on Beard Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Theywere to be demolished to build an IKEA superstore. Our protest influenced IKEA to a revise theiroriginal plan, but City pressures to widen the street commenced the demolition. Environmentalconcerns about asbestos have temporarily halted demolition, and we continue to monitor this situation closely.

Protecting Mother Seton

The Conservancy advocated for the Shrineof Mother Seton at 7 State Street in LowerManhattan as it faced damage from nearbyMTA construction of an expanded the SouthFerry Subway. While the Shrine’s chapeldates from the 1950s, the landmark rectoryand parish house date from 1799. TheMTA’s work included rock-blasting and pile-driving and required the use of very heavyequipment just yards from Mother Seton’sfront façades. Consequently, the shrine suf-fered evident and quantifiable damage fromthe severe vibrations and excessive amountsof air-borne dust and grit.

The Conservancy contacted both the MTA and the Landmarks Preservation Commission anddemanded that proper protection mandates be followed and that monitoring equipment be put inplace to measure and regulate vibrations and air quality. As a result, the Commission also createda specific protection protocol for heavy excavation work adjacent to all landmarks. We also metwith the Archdiocese to detail the problems we’ve observed and to help them file a claim for dam-ages. Our effort to obtain proper monitoring for these fragile historic buildings is ongoing.

Guiding Proposals

Our Public Policy Committee helped frame our positions on several proposals. We opposed demolition of a landmark brownstone to make way for the expansion of the Whitney Museum. We supported a comprehensive re-zoning for Far West Greenwich Village as well. We workedclosely with the General Theological Seminary and its architects and offered major design revisionsfor a new structure there.

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Shrine of Mother Seton

2 Columbus Circle

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The Conservancy also continued to par-ticipate in the monthly meetings of theRedevelopment Advisory Committee (RAC),which has been advising the Port Authorityon its proposal to restore, redevelop, andadaptively reuse the former TWA Terminaland its surrounding site at John F. KennedyAirport in Queens. Technical Services staffhelped review the designs for a new Jet Blueterminal and the Request for Proposals(RFP) for the restoration and adaptive reuseof the historic Eero Saarinen terminal (1956-62). Architects for Jet Blue and the PortAuthority have designed a low-slung, simplystyled, modern terminal to be built behind Saarinen’s site in order to not compete visually or archi-tecturally with the landmark. Our advice helped save Saarinen’s two “Flight Tubes,” which willnow connect the new building with the landmark, and helped save from demolition part of theoriginal “Flight Wing” departure lounge. The lounge will be moved from its existing location andincorporated as an historic element into the new terminal.

Studying Brooklyn Skyscrapers

The Conservancy’s Technical Services staff collaborated with the Brooklyn Heights Association toprepare an assessment report on a potential new historic district adjacent to Brooklyn Heights.The 2004 loss of the highly significant Gas Streetlight Company Building (ca. 1857) on RemsenStreet drew attention to the fact that the historic commercial buildings between Clinton and CourtStreet near Borough Hall needed landmark protection. When created in 1965, the BrooklynHeights Historic District focused on residential architecture; its boundaries did not include manyof these fine sites, which now may be demolished or defaced as redevelopment pressures rise. Thesurvey makes a strong case for the district’s designation by including both extensive originalresearch on each building’s history and an analysis of the logical boundaries for a new historic dis-trict. We particularly have urged the Commission calendar for landmark designation the FranklinBuilding at 186 Remsen Street. Built in 1889, this vacant Romanesque Revival skyscraper is themost immediately threatened of the proposed district’s 30 buildings. We forwarded theCommission our survey and urged their prompt attention.

TWA Terminal “Flight Tube”

75 Livingston Street, Brooklyn Heights

Advocacy Issues and Places

The Avella Bill

BrooklynAustin Nichols & Company Warehouse,

184 Kent Avenue, WilliamsburgBorough Hall Skyscraper District, Brooklyn HeightsFormer New York Shipyard, Red HookNamm’s and Offerman’s Department Stores,

Fulton Street

Manhattan2 Columbus CircleCongregation Shearith Israel, Central Park West

and West 70th StreetRobert and Anne Dickey House, 67 Greenwich Street

16 West 18th Street, Ladies Mile Historic DistrictGeneral Theological Seminary, Ninth Avenue and

West 20th Street, Chelsea Historic DistrictKeuffel & Esser Building, 127 Fulton StreetPlaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue and Central Park SouthShrine of Mother Seton, 7 State Street, Lower ManhattanSummit Hotel, Lexington Avenue at East 53rd `StreetWhitney Museum, Madison Avenue and East 74th StreetWindermere Apartments, Ninth Avenue at West 57th Street

QueensJamaica Savings Bank, Elmhurst Branch, Queens BoulevardTerminal 5, Kennedy AirportRalph Bunche House, 115-24 Grosvenor Road, Kew Gardens

Staten Island John De Groot House, 1674 Richmond Terrace

Government agencies, nonprofits, and private building ownersoften call upon our Technical Services staff for preservationexpertise. This past year, the Conservancy supervised the restora-tion projects at several residencies, studied building codes, andmanaged preservation easements.

Assisting Historic Homes

In the Carroll Gardens Historic District of Brooklyn, our Technical Servicesstaff consulted on the façade restoration of an Italianate-style brownstonerowhouse (ca. 1861) at 315 President Street. We helped the owner reversedamage previously caused by the application of an ill-advised waterproofingcoating on the front façade. This had been done without benefit of aLandmarks Commission permit and was therefore in violation. The restora-tion removed the pink-hued coating and recreated long-removed, projectingwindow lintels. Now a model to inspire work on the rest of the row, thefaçade was completely restored in May.

In Brooklyn Heights, theConservancy helped a unique restora-tion of a shared elaborate cornice at 47and 47A Willow Street, a pair ofmatching Second Empire-style brown-stones (ca. 1851). Water damage fromthe built-in gutter, usually found in cor-nices in brownstones with Mansardroofs, had caused one of the large,carved brackets at number 47 to detachand fall into the areaway. Work beganin late September, repairing the waterdamage and replacing nearly all sixbrackets by late December.

We also consulted on the restora-tion of two, classically inspiredentrances at 17-19 East 95th Street in

Manhattan. Although joined through the cellar, this pair of historic bow-fronted apartment buildings (ca. 1900) has separate entrances. Each entrancefeatures columned porticos above high stoops. Completed in June, the workremoved past coatings on the two stoops, repaired the limestone façade, andrestored decorative ironwork and other features.

Reviewing Building Codes

In a significant collaboration between the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) and theConservancy, our Director of Technical Services, Alex Herrera, is participating in the ongoing ini-tiative to revise the NYC building code. The DOB has been using the International Building Code(IBC) and the International Existing Building Code (IEBC) as models for the new City regulations.

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h Providing Architectural Expertise

315 President Street

17 East 95th Street

47 & 47A Willow Street

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Technical Services Projects

Brooklyn47 & 47A Willow Street, Brooklyn Heights123 Cambridge Place, Fort Greene140 Amity Street, Cobble Hill177-179 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn Heights315 President Street, Carrol Gardens423 Pacific Street, Cobble Hill661 Driggs Avenue, WilliamsburgBrooklyn Navy Yard, Fort GreeneHebron School, 920 Park Place, Crown Heights

Bronx1971 Morris Avenue

Manhattan

Cecil Hotel, 206 West 118th Street, HarlemIndia House, One Hanover Square,

Lower ManhattanLondon Terrace, ChelseaMuseum of the City of New York,

1220 Fifith Avenue, Harlem8 Thomas Street, Civic Center, 13th Street Presbyterian Church (former) 17-19 East 95th Street48 East 68th Street129 East 62nd Street131 East 65th Street153 West 119th Street, Harlem306 West 78th Street453 West 21st Street874 Broadway, Ladies Mile Historic District

Numerous committees were set up to study specific topics, such as structural requirements, firesafety, plumbing, and electrical systems. Herrera worked on the proposed regulations affectinghistoric buildings within the Existing Buildings Committee. For the first time in New York, his-toric buildings will have their own chapter in the Building Code. The codes will be graduallyimplemented throughout 2008.

Managing Preservation Easements

An easement is a voluntary legal agreement between a property owner and a nonprofit organiza-tion that restricts future changes to the property and requires cyclical inspections. This assures thathistoric properties are well maintained. In 2005, the Conservancy accepted easements at:• 8 Thomas Street• 131 East 65th Street• 123 East 95th Street• 140 Amity Street• 48 East 68th Street

8 Thomas Street48 East 68th Street123 East 95th Street

The Conservancy’s Sacred Sites Program offers congregations throughout New YorkState financial and technical assistance to maintain, repair, and restore their build-ings. The program has awarded over 890 grants totaling more than $4.6 million inits twenty years. In addition to providing hundreds of thousands of dollars inmatching grants each year, Sacred Sites staff offers technical help, workshops forbuilding caretakers, and publications such as the journal, Common Bond.

Surveying Catholic Churches

The Conservancy maintained its longstanding advocacy forthreatened, historic Catholic churches in 2005.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has beensurveying and analyzing the health of its over 400 churchessince 2001. The Archdiocese covers ten counties, includingStaten Island, Manhattan, the Bronx, and northern suburbs.Within the Archdiocese, congregations in New York Cityhave declined while new parishes are needed in growing sub-urbs north of the City. The proposed reorganization un-doubtedly will mean the closing of dozens of historically andarchitecturally significant church complexes within the City.

In anticipation, the Conservancy launched a survey toidentify churches of particular architectural significance and to assess development pressure at eachsite, including rectories, parish halls, schools, and convents. Local sister organizations, who hadparticipated in the Conservancy’s fall 2004 “summit” on potential church closure and redevelop-ment, contributed initial photographs of churches and outbuildings for several Manhattan neigh-borhoods.

Grants from the J.M. Kaplan Fund and individ-ual donor Catherine Dugan enabled theConservancy to hire an intern from Pratt Institute’sgraduate-level preservation program in 2005. Withthis assistance, we expanded the survey by takingadditional photos, researching public records, andestablishing a computer database to link photos,maps, and building and zoning information.

The survey initially focused on the three NewYork City boroughs to be affected by planned reor-ganization: Manhattan, the Bronx, and StatenIsland, encompassing the 99 Manhattan parishes,67 Bronx parishes, and 39 Staten Island parishes ofthe New York Archdiocese.

h Saving Sacred Sites

(above) Built in 1930,the Church of theGuardian Angel in Chelsea was at riskfor closure.

(left) But its “twinchurch,” St. JohnNepomucene on theUpper East Side (1925)was not. Both weredesigned by the archi-tect John V. Van Pelt.

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In the coming years, the Conservancy plans to extend the survey to the separate RomanCatholic Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens and to expand the survey to take in potentially vulnera-ble historic religious properties of all denominations. Only a tiny fraction of these treasures aredesignated City landmarks and are therefore vulnerable to demolition and redevelopment.

Presenting Across New York and Beyond

In addition to advocacy and financial assistance, Sacred Sites program staff shared their expertiseat a number of well-attended sessions this year.

The Conservancy co-sponsored with the Episcopal Diocese of New York a one-day program,“Roofs, Boilers & Budgets: How to Care for Your Religious Property,” held at Trinity EpiscopalChurch in Fishkill in May. Morning sessions focused on the inspection and maintenance of his-toric religious properties. The afternoon explored financial management and fundraising. Supportfor this program was provided in part by the National Trust for Historic Preservation's John E.Streb Preservation Services Fund for New York.

One month later, as part of a workshop sponsored by the Philadelphia-based Partners forSacred Places, Sacred Sites staff presented a session on exterior restoration resources. Elevenparishes of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island attended the session.

Sacred Sites Program Director Ann-Isabel Friedman presented in October in Montreal at aninternational symposium, What Future for Which Churches? (Quel avenir pour quelles églises?)Her paper “Real Estate vs. Religion: Can New York’s Historic Houses of Worship Withstand theHot Real Estate Market?” was part of a panel on challenges facing U.S. religious heritage. Thesymposium highlighted one key difference between historic religious institutions in America,Europe, and Quebec: other countries have government support for the repair and restoration ofsacred sites.

Preserving Tiffany Glass

The Tiffany & Co. Foundation awarded the Conservancy a$25,000 gift in 2005. This provided matching grants torestore stained glass produced by Tiffany Studios. TheBronx’s St. James Episcopal Church, Fordham, received a$7,250 grant to restore its window, “The True Vine.” TheBrooklyn Society for Ethical Culture in Park Slope receiveda grant of $7,000 to restore its suite of “Wisteria” win-dows. To restore its “Cuyler Memorial” window, LafayettePresbyterian Church in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, received a$7,000 grant.

Detail of “The TrueVine” window at St.James EpiscopalChurch, Fordham

Many of the City’s Catholic churches do nothave landmark status, despite their extraor-dinary details, such as the 44 murals thatadorn the Church of Our Lady of theScapular and St. Stephen on East 28th

Street. The murals were commissioned in1866 and executed by Constantino Brumidisimultaneously with his murals at the U.S.Capitol. James Renwick Jr. designed thischurch in 1854.

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Sacred Sites and Consulting Grants

Baptist Temple Church, NewburghBeth Joseph Synagogue, Tupper LakeBrown Memorial Baptist Church, BrooklynBrooklyn Monthly Meeting (New York Quarterly Meeting),

BrooklynBrooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, BrooklynCambridge United Presbyterian Church, CambridgeChrist Church, WaltonChrist & St. Stephen's Church, New YorkChurch of the Holy Cross and the Mary Warren

Free Institute, TroyChurch of St. Paul and St. Andrew, United Methodist,

New YorkCongregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes (Kane Street

Synagogue), BrooklynCrenshaw Christian Center East, New YorkEast Midwood Jewish Center, BrooklynEssex Community Church, EssexFair Street Reformed Church, KingstonFirst Baptist Church, SchenectadyFirst Baptist Church of Interlaken, InterlakenFirst Baptist Church of Newfane, NewfaneFirst Congregational Church of Lewis, LewisFirst Methodist Episcopal Church of Avon, AvonFirst Presbyterian Church, CazenoviaFirst Seventh Day Baptist Church of Alfred, AlfredFirst United Methodist Church, CorningHoly House of Prayer, BrooklynLafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, BrooklynOld Bucks Bridge Community Church, CantonPlymouth Congregational Church, SyracuseReformed Church of the Tarrytowns, TarrytownRichmondville United Methodist Church, RichmondvilleSand Lake Baptist Church, Averill ParkSt. Augustine Roman Catholic Church, BrooklynSt. George's Episcopal Church, SchenectadySt. James Episcopal Church, Fordham, BronxSt. John's Church, Honeoye Falls, Honeoye Falls

Temple Concord in Binghamton received a$4,250 Consulting grant for the preparation ofarchitectural drawings and estimates, laying thefoundation for a comprehensive exterior restora-tion campaign and helping to secure outsidefinancial support for this large project. TheHarriet Ford Dickenson Foundation providedfunding for Consulting Grants in the SouthernTier in 2005.

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St. John's Episcopal Church, OakdaleSt. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, New YorkSt. Luke's Episcopal Church, KatonahSt. Luke's Episcopal Church, SomersSt. Mark's A.M.E. Church, KingstonSt. Paul's Episcopal Church, WaddingtonSt. Thomas's Chapel, AmagansettSecond Baptist Church, CatskillSnells Bush Church (St. Paul's Dutch Reformed Church),

Little FallsTemple Beth-El, GenevaTemple Concord, BinghamtonTrinity Baptist Church, New York Trinity Episcopal Church, PotsdamTrinity Episcopal Church, TroyTrinity Episcopal Church, WarsawTrinity Lutheran Church, BrooklynThird Presbyterian Church, RochesterUnited Presbyterian Church of Sackets Harbor, Sackets Harbor

Grants Total: 57 Grants $200,775

New York City Consulting Grants are made possible by a generous gift from the Altman Foundation.

Robert W. Wilson Sacred Sites Challenge Grants

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, AlbanyCathedral of the Incarnation, Garden CityEl Bethel Assembly (Light of the World Missions, Inc.), BuffaloEphesus Seventh-day Adventist Church, New YorkGardner Earl Chapel & Crematorium, TroySt. Andrew's Episcopal Church, New YorkSt. Augustine Roman Catholic Church, Brooklyn

Grants Total: 7 Grants $200,000

One of the largest revolving loan funds for historic preservation in the country, theNew York City Historic Properties Fund has provided over $14.5 million in low-interest loans and $300,000 in grants for restoration work since its inception in1982. Over the years, the Fund has underwritten financing and has furnishedproject management assistance on a diverse range of historic properties.

In 2005, the Fund provided financing for an array of stunningprojects, on land...and on sea.

The Fund revived an 1850s clapboard house at 254 AdelphiStreet in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. This three-story, transitionalGreek Revival/Italianate rowhouse was covered with peelinglayers of siding and an unsightly front fire escape when theowners closed a $125,000 loan with the Fund. It had shared aporch composed of seven fluted Doric columns with a sisterproperty. When the fire escape was removed, building codesrequired the installation of a sprinkler system and waterline.The owners added additional funds to complete the façaderestoration and plumbing work. Burda Construction Corp.was the contractor; Kaitsen Woo, the project architect.

In Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood, the Fundhelped restore the façade of a brownstone rowhouse at 346Macon Street. The Conservancy was delighted when the City’sDepartment of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD)asked for financing assistance and preservation advice on thissubstantial rehabilitation in a proposed historic district.The 1870s brownstone was vacant prior to its purchase in1986 by the Rayside family, who were working with HPD toredevelop the property into three apartments. HPD could pro-vide about half of the funding needed with a 1% interest loan,but another low-interest loan was required to complete thedeal. In a 2004 closing, the Fund provided $209,450 at 5%interest for 20 years, secured by a first mortgage, and HPDparticipated with a loan/second mortgage of $190,550.General contractor Central Development and project architectBeth Cooper Lawrence Architects had substantially completedthe project by summer 2005, and the apartments were initiallyoccupied in September. The owner, architect, and HPD alldesired to produce an historically appropriate façade.Conservancy staff guided the restoration work to ensure that main façade elements—cornice, iron work, windows, andbrownstone—were correctly implemented.

A Fund loan also helped restore the Prince George Ballroom, as detailed on our front cover.Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Prince George was designed at the turn ofthe nineteenth century by architect Howard Greenley in the Beaux Arts style. Once an eleganthotel, it experienced harder times in the 70s and 80s as a welfare hotel and emergency shelter.But in 1997, a nonprofit housing developer, Common Ground Community, renovated the hotel at14 East 28th Street into 416 units of housing for low-income and formerly homeless adults.Common Ground’s $45 million conversion restored the prominent architectural features, but left

h Funding Historic Restorations

254 Adelphi Street, before...

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and after

the Ballroom unfinished. A $300,000 Historic Properties Fund loan in 2005 helped CommonGround invest over $1.1 million to restore the Ballroom’s grandeur. The architectural firm ofBeyer Blinder Belle oversaw construction work that was carried out by several nonprofit youth-training groups. With its 18-foot high ceilings and decorative columns, the Ballroom is now rentedfor events.

The Fund also helped complete a very spe-cial restoration, the tugboat Pegasus, which islisted on the National Register. Built in 1907for the Standard Oil Company, Pegasus towedand guided vessels throughout the New YorkHarbor until the late 90s. Its owner and thencaptain, Pamela Hepburn, established thenonprofit Tug Pegasus Preservation Project(TPPP) in 2000 and began a series of youthprograms with organizations such as thePolice Athletic League. But the tug’s rivetedsteel hull was badly corroded and its enginesin need of reconditioning by 2003. The Fundauthorized a loan of $200,000 and a 2-to-1challenge grant of $20,000 in late 2004 andassisted TPPP in raising its $40,000 match.Pegasus still needs some finishing touches, butshe has returned to the water.

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Tugboat Pegasus

The Prince George Ballroom, before...

Historic Properties Fund Projects

BrooklynAmbrose Residence, Bedford StuyvesantBaker/Ghosh Residence, Fort GreeneClinton Hill Realty, Fort GreeneCohn Residence, Fort Greene*Gorman/Schweyer Residence, Fort GreeneGraham Property, Clinton HillHerskovits/Egan Residence, Fort GreeneKanem Residence, Fort Greene*Mason Residence, Fort GreeneRayside Apartments, Bedford StuyvesantSchickler Residence, Vinegar HillStephenson-Brewster Residence, Fort Greene* Taylor Residence, Boerum Hill*

ManhattanCathedral of St. Sava, Midtown South*Common Ground Community,

Prince George Ballroom*Tug Pegasus Preservation Project*

QueensChurch of the Resurrection, Kew GardensGonzalez Property, Hunters Point

*completed

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h Preserving Upper Manhattan

The Upper Manhattan Historic Preservation Fund (UMHPF) was established in1999 when the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporationasked the Conservancy to administer a new, $4 million grant and loan fund to foster historic preservation and heritage tourism. UMHPF grants and loans of up to $100,000 each were targeted for use on nonprofit and religious institutionallandmark and landmark-quality properties in the Empowerment Zone, whichencompasses most of Upper Manhattan above 96th Street.

By the end of 2005, UMHPF’s $4 million was almost entire-ly committed to 31 projects; 27 churches, two synagogues, a mosque, and a cast iron fire watch tower—with all butthree completed.

In Washington Heights, UMHPF helped two churches. A grant and loan totaling almost $200,000 provided OurSaviour’s Atonement Lutheran with new concrete slab and ventilation in its basement to prevent water damage to thechurch’s foundations. Mount Washington PresbyterianChurch received repairs to its slate roof and copper drainagesystem at a cost of $119,600.

In Central Harlem, structural roof and masonry stabiliza-tion work was completed at Metropolitan CommunityUnited Methodist Church at a cost of $100,000. A grant of$100,000 opened up the formerly bricked-up entry of theChurch of St. Edward the Martyr in East Harlem. St.Edward now has new Gothic-style oak doors, adorned by astained glass transom, as well as a new interior vestibule of elegant paneled wood and glass.

2005 also saw a new grant program founded under UMHPF. Capitalized with up to $300,000in loan repayments from completed projects, the EZ Consulting Grant Program will offer match-ing grants of up to $10,000 to historic religious property owners in the Empowerment Zone. Thegrants can be used specifically to pay for architects, engineers, conservators, and other profession-als to provide conditions assessments, troubleshooting, and other services to assist in the preserva-tion of the building.

UMHPF Projects

Church of St. Edward the Martyr*Fire Watch Tower, Marcus Garvey ParkGreater Metropolitan Baptist ChurchMasjid Malcolm Shabazz Mosque*Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church*Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian ChurchMount Washington Presbyterian Church*Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church*

* completed

Metropolitan Community UnitedMethodist Church

Church of St. Edwardthe Martyr

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Assisting Nonprofits g

The Emergency Grant Program assists nonprofit owners of historic properties byunderwriting repairs that threaten public safety and the preservation of the proper-ty itself, such as water damage and falling masonry. Capitalized by The New YorkCommunity Trust since 1999, the program has provided over $185,000 for immediately needed work to thirteen buildings since its inception.

Work was completed on three Emergency Grant Program funded projects this year. A grant of$10,000 finished drainage work on the slate roof of the Rectory at St. John’s Church in ParkSlope, Brooklyn. In Staten Island, the Alice Austen House received $11,000 for new large promi-nent shutters that will protect this Historic House Trust property. The program also provided a$12,000 grant for the installation of new coping stones on the retaining wall at the landmarkHighbridge-Woodycrest Center in the Bronx.

The Program also committed new grants this year. $10,000 was authorized toward the stabi-lization of a wall at Guild Hall at Church of the Intercession in Manhattan. An $11,800 grantwas awarded toward the repair of the structure of the porch at the Lefferts House in Brooklyn.

Alice Austen House Highbridge-Woodycrest Center Lefferts House

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The City Ventures Fund

Our City Ventures Fund helps nonprofit developers retain or replace the period details ofarchitecturally significant buildings being converted into low- and moderate-incomehousing and community service centers. The Fund has helped create over 600 affordableapartments and provided over $1.1 million in grants.

More than $121,000 in grants helped four projects in 2005:• 22-24 Mt. Morris Park West, Settlement Housing Fund, Mount Morris Park, Manhattan• 99-105 Herkimer Street, Pratt Area Community Council, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn• 157 Halsey Street, Pratt Area Community Council, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn• 320 West 47th Street, Clinton, Manhattan

h Honoring Achievement

Named after a noted philanthropist, the Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards arethe Conservancy’s highest honors for outstanding preservation efforts. The awardsrecognize preservation leaders, organizations, owners, builders, architects, andcraftspeople who restore the beauty and utility of New York’s great architecture.

St. Bartholomew’s Church hosted the 15th annual program, and the Conservancy granted ProjectAwards to a range of diverse projects completed in 2005:• 90 West Street • The Prince George Ballroom, Common Ground Community• Battery Maritime Building, South Ferry• The Cloisters & Fifth Avenue Façades of The Metropolitan Museum of Art• Higgins Hall, School of Architecture, Pratt Institute • Historic Front Street Project in the South Street Seaport Historic District • Williamsburgh Branch Library, Brooklyn

For its vigilance, persistence, and skill in advo-cating for one of our City’s legendary neighbor-hoods, the Greenwich Village Society for HistoricPreservation earned our Organizational ExcellenceAward.

A stalwart preservationist, the Honorable GaleBrewer received our Legislative Leadership Award.Brewer has helped save churches and synagoguesthreatened by closure or demolition in her district.

Evelyn and Everett Ortner of Park Slope,Brooklyn, received the Preservation LeadershipAward for their lifetime of dedication and accom-plishment in furthering historic preservation.

Williamsburgh Branch Library

90 West Street

Seen here protesting to save the Far West Village, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservationreceived our Organizational Excellence Award.

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Some 500 Conservancy supporters gathered in a beautifullandmark setting at Cipriani 42nd Street on November 2 forour eleventh annual Living Landmarks Celebration. Guestshelped raise over $675,000 and welcome our newest groupof “Living Landmarks.”

Landmark Liz Smith hosted the gala, and Landmark Peter Duchin and his orchestra played, guaranteeing anotherlively evening.

Mayor Edward I. Koch received this year’s Lew RudinLiving Landmark Award for Outstanding Public Service.Beth Rudin DeWoody and Billy Rudin presented the awardon the tenth anniversary of their late father’s induction as aLiving Landmark. A real estate giant and outstanding civicleader, Lew Rudin had worked closely with Koch. DeWoodyrecalled how her father respected his no-nonsense style. Theformer mayor’s verve is as strong as his passion for preserva-tion; he fought tirelessly to save Grand Central Station andto uphold the City’s landmarks law.

Martin E. Segal charmed the audience with tales from his childhood as a recent immigrant. He recalled his only line in an elementary school play: “I’m spinach, and I’m good for you.” And,he said, “I’ve tried to live up to that ever since.” Segal certainly has been good to New York.

Elizabeth Rohatyn shared how she is always struck by the distinctive ambiance that architecturecreates in New York. Comparing herself and her husband Felix (a 1996 Living Landmark) to thissame architecture, she joked: “If we’re landmarks, my husband must be a building. And now I’ma building, so I guess that makes us a block.”

Pete Hamill’s sentiments were aseloquent as his writings. As a youngreporter for the New York Post, hewould take his lunch break on a benchnear the Woolworth building. “Iwould read its surface for signs andsymbols…you can move in any direc-tion and read a different story,” heremembered. “If ever I were to be abuilding, I would be the Woolworthbuilding, because it’s something youcan read.” To Hamill, like greatworks of literature, great buildingsmust be treasured: “We owe it tothose who got us here and came hereand built this city and gave us ourlandmarks. And we owe it to thosewho are not even here yet.”

h Celebrating Living Landmarks

“To be a landmark in a city of landmarks is really something.”—Pete Hamill

Host Liz Smith and the 2005 Living Landmarks: Martin E. Segal, Pete Hamill, Sir Howard Stringer,Barbara Walters, Ed Koch, and Elizabeth Rohatyn.

Ed Koch accepts the Lew Rudin Award for Outstanding PublicService from Beth Rudin DeWoody and Billy Rudin.

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Sir Howard Stringer vividly remembered first coming to New York as a young man. After car-rying a steamer trunk on his back from the dock to Penn Station, he was instantly mesmerized bythe old station’s grandeur, seeing it as “a kind of Parthenon.” It was love at first sight, and thislove affair hasn’t ended. “My work takes me from London to Beijing and back again, but NewYork is still my favorite of them all,” he shared. For his favorite city and fellow Landmarks,Stringer recited a witty, original poem.

Presenting the final award, Smith revealed that she’s tried for years to convince Barbara Waltersto accept this honor. Walters admitted that compared to New York’s dynamic energy, she used tothink of landmarks as “something old and in need of a facelift.” But a recent revelation changedthat perception: 48th Street at Broadway has been renamed Lou Walters Street in honor of herfather, the famed owner of the legendary Latin Quarter nightclub. This instilled in Walters a newappreciation of how buildings, like her father’s creative legacy, contribute to the city’s character—a character that must be preserved.

Special Thanks

Board member Mimi Levitt gener-ously underwrote the evening’sflowers and décor. Sotheby’sInternational Realty sponsored thevideo presentation, Cartier providedthe engraved awards, and Boardmember Elizabeth Stribling under-wrote the gala’s gift bags.

Andy Rooney and Beryl Pfizer joinedLiving LandmarkKitty Carlisle Hart.

Ken Auletta, Amanda Urban, Nick Pileggi, and Nora Ephron.

Board member Mimi Levitt, center, was joined byHelen and François Verglas.

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Betty AllenBrooke Russell AstorLouis AuchinclossHarry BelafonteCandice Bergen & Marshall RosePaul Binder & Michael ChristensenBill BlassDavid BrownHelen Gurley BrownPat & William F. Buckley, Jr.Hugh CareyBetty Comden & Adolph GreenBarbara CookJoan Ganz CooneyWalter CronkiteJoseph F. Cullman IIIClive DavisPhilippe de MontebelloPeter DuchinAnthony Drexel DukeAhmet ErtegunSteve, Robert, Christopher

& Tim ForbesBrendan GillWhoopi Goldberg

Victor GotbaumVartan GregorianLouise & Henry GrunwaldJohn GuareAgnes Gund Pete HamillKitty Carlisle HartMarian & Andrew HeiskellAl HirschfeldLinda & Morton JanklowPeter JenningsPhilip JohnsonJohn Kander & Fred EbbElaine KaufmanRaymond KellyEdward I. KochArie L. KopelmanMathilde KrimHenry Luce IIISirio MaccioniPeter MartinsMary McFadden Arthur MitchellDaniel Patrick MoynihanJerry Orbach & Sam Waterston

Gordon ParksPeter G. PetersonJoan RiversLaurance & David RockefellerElizabeth RohatynFelix RohatynLewis RudinArnold ScaasiArthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Martin E. SegalBobby ShortBeverly SillsLiz SmithGeorge SteinbrennerGloria SteinemElaine StritchSir Howard StringerJohn L. TishmanThomas Von EssenBarbara WaltersMike WallaceHarvey & Bob WeinsteinGeorge C. Wolfe

Liz Smith and Peter Duchin

Jack and Nora Kerr Robert and Encarnita Quinlan

Stuart Siegel and Adaline Havemeyer Tom McArthur and Frannie Scaife

Elizabeth Stribling and Guy Robinson

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Living Landmarks

Supporting our Success

The Landmarks Conservancy’s unique preservation programs depend on annual contributions from individual, corporate, and foundation supporters. Each year we must raise over 75% of our operating budget from privatesources. We are very grateful for our partnership with all of you who care as much as we do about preserving New York’s historic architecture.

The Conservancy gratefully acknowledges the following donors who made gifts of $100 or more in 2005. If any names have been listed incorrectly or omitted, please accept our apologies and let us know how we mayadjust our records.

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Leaders ($50,000 and above)Ronald S. LauderRobert W. Wilson

Guardians ($20,000-$49,999)Michael K. De Chiara, Esq.Anand Navin GajjarMartin GubernickThomas HamillAlexandra & Paul HerzanHolly HotchnerNora Wren Kerr & John J. Kerr, Jr. Mimi LevittPaul NewmanStuart N. Siegel & Adeline HavemeyerAlbert SimonsThomas E. SpathBarbara & Donald Tober

Fellows ($10,000-$19,999)Mildred C. BrinnLynn Forester de RothschildSusanne & Douglas DurstNorton Garfinkle & Sally MinardMr. & Mrs. Robert C. Graham, Jr.Clark P. HalsteadPeter G. Peterson The Honorable & Mrs. Felix RohatynMrs. Edmond J. SafraFrances G. ScaifeFrank J. Sciame, Jr.Martin E. Segal FamilyElizabeth F. Stribling & Guy RobinsonBarbara Walters

Society ($5,000-$9,999)Mr. & Mrs. Roger C. AltmanMrs. Walter H. AnnenbergJohn Belle, FAIA, RIBACatherine Cahill & William BernhardJoan & Martin CaminsPamela Rubin Carter & Jon Carter

Susan R. Cullman & John J. Kirby, Jr.Edith and Herbert Lehman

Foundation, Inc.Patricia & John ForelleAgnes Gund & Daniel ShapiroSusan Henshaw JonesArthur L. LoebMartin J. McLaughlinJohn MorningFrederic S. PapertAllison Simmons Prouty &

Norman ProutyJulia Robbins & Joseph A. PiersonMarc P. SchappellPatricia & David Kenneth SpecterLloyd Zuckerberg

Benefactors ($2,500-$4,999)Mona Ackerman & Richard CohenMr. & Mrs. Robert H. ArnowKathryn McGraw BerryFarran Tozer BrownPaul S. Byard, FAIAAnne & John CoffinBeth Rudin DeWoodyCatherine N. DuganMargaret Brennan HassettWilliam P. KellyStephen KirschenbaumStephen S. Lash &

Wendy Lehman LashMr. & Mrs. Noel LevineMr. & Mrs. George LindemannVirginia ManheimerMr. & Mrs. Donald MarronMarla SaboIrving & Patricia Marand SalemSophia D. SchachterKenneth & Marisa StarrJoanne M. Stern

Circle ($1,000-$2,499)Aric AckermanTimothy AllanbrookAnonymousJohn & Caron AveryGeorge BallantyneMr. & Mrs. Sid R. BassPaul BeirneMinor L. BishopPat & Stanley BrilliantDavid Brown & Helen Gurley BrownGerry & Liz ByrneEdward Lee CaveJudith L. ChiaraJack & Carole CohnJim & Eileen ConroyMr. & Mrs. Frederick M. DanzigerMichael DelGiudice Jennie & Richard DeSchererKate & Bob DevlinMrs. Douglas DillonMr. & Mrs. Howard DubnerJohn & Kathe DysonMr. & Mrs. Stuart P. FeldBarbara J. FifeF. Richardson Ford IIIFrances & Floyd HorowitzMichael FrankfurtKay & Stephen FrankfurtSara E. GilbaneSusan & Eli GilbertWilliam T. GoldenShelley Gorson & Alan SalpeterMrs. Henry GrunwaldMr. & Mrs. Martin GrussMr. & Mrs. Harry W. HavemeyerKathy Hayes & David LevineGregory & Margaret HedbergNorma W. HessShay & George HirschRichard & Fran HofstetterJames R. Houghton

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Cheryl HurleyJoan L. & Julius H. Jacobson IIWeslie Resnick Janeway &

William H. JanewayLinda & Morton JanklowFloy KaminskiJoanne Witty & Eugene KeilinMr. & Mrs. John KlingensteinBruce KovnerMathilde KrimMr. & Mrs. Robert D. KrinskyRichard Kurnit & Diane KatzinRichard H. LevyLinda & Sandy LindenbaumCarol & Earle I. MackMr. & Mrs. Vincent MaiMr. & Mrs. Peter L. MalkinJoan & Paul MarksMrs. Theodore A. McGrawKenneth & Laurie MeislerRonay & Richard MenschelTimothy MillhiserGillian & Sylvester MiniterJane & Gary MuhrckeMr. & Mrs. Jack NashRoy R. NeubergerRonald OehlMorton & Carole OlshanPeter W. OlsonMr. & Mrs. George D. O'NeillPhyllis S. OxmanAlice PerlmutterSam and Elizabeth WhiteJames & Ellyn PolshekPaul J. Powers, Jr. & Tina A. DavisEncarnita & Robert QuinlanJennifer RaabMaribeth S. & Martin E. RaheKanti & Susan RaiDonald M. RobertsDavid RockefellerAndy RooneyDr. & Mrs. Daniel SchapiroMr. & Mrs. Irwin SchneidermanKay, Bill, Will & Meta SchrenkLisa & Bernard SelzGil ShivaMichael T. Sillerman, EsquireBarbara & Howard SloanMr. & Mrs. John S.W. SpoffordMr. & Mrs. Ted StanleyRobert A.M. SternJoseph StrasburgMr. & Mrs. Charles TribbittMr. & Mrs. George VotisClaudia WagnerAlex & Sarah WeilShelby WhiteRoss WollenMigs Woodside

Patrons ($500-$999)Mr. & Mrs. Justin AbelowDiane & Bob AbramsArlene AdlerGeorge ArztPage AshleyClayton BanksMr. & Mrs. Henry C. Barkhorn IIIDaniel BenedictMr. & Mrs. Howard BerkowitzAna BilskiVictoria B. BjorklundLouis H. BlumengartenDr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. BorerRobin BronkDee & Dickson BrownDale J. BurchGiosetta CapriatiLaura CheshireRobert ClaytonJohn V. Connorton, Jr., Esq.Jane R. CrottyCatherine G. CurranEunice & Hal DavidJodi Della Femina & John KimSofia Milonas DingleKimberly Donaldson & Andre KikoskiPeter M. EngelMarilyn & Ken FahrmanEllen FedericoJacqueline FishJacqueline FowlerPeter FrankfurtAnnabelle GarrettRobert V. GilbaneDawn GornickCheryl Grandfield & Richard W. DoddRobert M. GreenbergDon & Tosia GringerMarjorie & Gurnee HartSusan HeinzDebra Shabas & Richard HellerCaroline HirschSharon King HogeAmabel B. JamesWayne S. KabakGeorge S. KaufmanLee KelloggCelerie Kemble & Ravenel Boykin CurryJennifer & Justin KennedyEmily & Leslie KenoMr. & Mrs. William F. KimballRoger KimmelEdward KlimermanHarrison T. LeFrakMark LevenfusRobert LevineMalcolm MacKayKellie MelindaRobert B. Menschel

Pauline C. MetcalfMr. & Mrs. Michael MilesMr. & Mrs. George Braniff MooreLynn NesbitGeorge NeumanEve W. Paul Toby Tucker Peters & Bradford PetersTom PowerTimothy Quinlan &

Courtney CantanucciWilliam E. RapfogelMr. & Mrs. Robert RiggsPeter RogersAndrew Saffir Mr. & Mrs. David SantryRosalie T. SaylesArnold Scaasi & Parker LaddDick & Linda SchapiroMartin ScherzerRobbin SchulsohnKatie Schwab & Megan DesalesTom SelzMary & Ian SnowJay & Tracy SnyderCynthia R. StebbinsMr. & Mrs. Andrew P. SteffanNick SternAmy StrohCharles & Szilvia TanenbaumJack TaylorHelen S. TuckerKiliaen Van RensselaerDaniel VincentBetsy von Furstenberg ReynoldsAlexandre von FurstenbergDavid WassongDr. & Mrs. Robert WickhamGwendolyn WidellMr. & Mrs. Guy WildensteinFrancis H. WilliamsRichard M. Winn IIIJan & Eric WoglomStuart C. WoodsGeorge W. YoungMr. & Mrs. Howard A. ZipserArthur Zitrin

Sponsors ($250-$499)Christina AddisonCharlotte ArmstrongGillian AttfieldJohn L. AuerbachMr. & Mrs. Jacob J. BarkerPia BayotMatthew Bender IVAndrew BlackStephanie E.K. BorynackAlexander BrodskyGenevieve & Peter BrownLesli Brown

Chairman’s Award

The Conservancy presented its 2005 Chairman’s Award to The ArmoryFoundation’s Chairman, Michael Frankfurt, and President and CEO, Dr. NorbertSander, Jr. The annual Chairman’s Award recognizes business and civic leadersfor outstanding restoration projects and preservation stewardship. The event fea-tured a dinner cruise aboard the Forbes yacht, the Highlander.

We saluted Mr. Frankfurt and Dr.Sander for their remarkable achievementin transforming the 168th Street Armoryinto a full-service community center, a national landmark, and the pride ofthe neighborhood.

The landmark was built as a training center for the National Guard in 1909 andbecame a venue for many of the city’s biggest sporting events by the 1920s. By the60s, it was the unrivaled center of track and field competition in New York. TheArmory was converted to a homeless shelter in the 1980s, with over 1,800 beds incramped and dangerous surroundings. But thanks to Mr. Frankfurt and Dr. Sander,the Armory came back to life as the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2004.

Conservancy Chairman John J. Kerr, Jr.,center, presents the Chairmans’ Award toDr. Norbert Sander, Jr. and MichaelFrankfurt.

The 168th Street Armory

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Mati & Chris BucciniRob & Beth BucciniMiriam CahnLauren CarrConnie & David ClappTodd CohenLeonard ColchamiroVanessa Colombo & Annie VatterottIsis ConcepcionRomy & David CoquilletteE. Richard & Angela CovertMegan CritchellChris Del GattoAlison DiamondElissa DoyleHolly Dunlap & Elisabeth GutowskiLauren duPontFlorence D'UrsoMr. & Mrs. William DyeBruce W. Eaken, Jr.Sally M. EdwardsGail EricksonChristina & Alex EvansAlexander & Patricia Farman-FarmaianMr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Fitzgerald IIIDorian & Chris ForshnerStephen FriedmanMr. & Mrs. Robert Goergen, Jr.Stacey GoldbergMr. & Mrs. Brian M. GonickMr. & Mrs. Kieran GoodwinFrancis GreenburgerMary Hall

Mr. & Mrs. E. Franklin HarrisHenry G. HartKitty Hawks & Larry LedermanShabnam & Thomas HenryKimberly & Larry HeymanLauren HochfelderPeter HochschildWalter Alexander Hunt, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Gordon HyattThe Honorable & Mrs. Dennis JacobsElise Jaffe & Jeffrey BrownGrange & Susan JohnsonPatricia JosephMr. & Mrs. Peter KaganDebra KanabisDayssi Olarte de KanavosJohn KhouryMr. & Mrs. Jeffrey P. KleinEugenia KoudanisAlex KramerDeborah & Peter KrulewitchSarah Bradford LandauJane LauderBernice K. Leber & David RosenbergAlexandra LeidesdorfDanielle LevineCatherine LittlefieldCaroline & Gian Matteo Lo FaroEva & Lorenzo LorenzottiEdward F. Lyons, Jr.James MacDonaldGregory MaidmanMr. & Mrs. Christopher Mailman

Myra MalkinLansing MartinelliTimothy & Elizabeth MayhewSusan Weis MindelPhilip MindlinTatyana Miron & Alexandra PappasEdward T. MohylowskiMr. & Mrs. Garrett M. MoranC.J. & Ashley MuseAngela MuzzarelliPeter NeuAnthony J. NewmanJeffrey NordhausMary McGarry & Stanley OkulaLida OrzeckMr. & Mrs. Gunnar S. Overstrom IIIValerie PaleyVirginia ParkhouseAnne PerkinsAnnelise PetersonMarnie & Don PillsburyBetsy PittsDana Points & Mark SatlofAlbert PriceGlenn & Lyn ReiterGregg RenfrewMr. & Mrs. William D. RifkinSaw-Teen See & Leslie RobertsonSuzanne RosenJack Rosenthal & Holly RussellNancy & Joe SambucoNikki ScheuerTeddy Schwarzman

Eldon & Alexandra ScottMr. & Mrs. Peter M.F. SichelNancy SippJohn J. SlainCamilla & Carl SorensonChristopher SpitzmillerMr. & Mrs. Benjamin F. Stapleton IIICatherine StathakopoulosSally E. SvensonPeyton Elizabeth TansillDana & Douglas TaylorChristine & Tom TormeyF. Carlisle ToweryMr. & Mrs. Guy F.C. Van PeltBronson van WyckMaria & Jerome VillalbaAndrew VissicchioPeter WashkowitzFranklin Thomas & Kate WhitneyWhitney WolfeDonald W. YoungLoulie Walker & Peter Zimmermann

Advocates ($100-$249)Diane AbbeyAshley AllanMargarita Torres Selim AlphanderyMark & Gloria AltherrBeth AmorosiAnonymousMr. & Mrs. Ronald R. AtkinsMina-Jacqueline AuSara AyresAbigail BakerEddie & Bill BaltzHarley & Lori BassmanLaurie BeckelmanTrish BeckerJason BeckmanAmanda BenchleyVincent BenicMelissa BerkelhammerAlvin BerrRichard BerryRichard BlumKathryn BohannonMimi Bohbot & Michael EfranHarry BondMatthew BromleyRichard BurlageLorenzo BurrowsRichard T. ButtonAlbert K.ButzelGregory CalejoJay E. CantorThomas K. CarleyDiana D. ChapinWanda ChinArthur C. CohenJerome & Elizabeth Cohen

Walter ColesAlice McGown ConcaghAshley ConstableMichael CooperSuzanne DavisChristina R. DavisCharles de CastejaMegan DeemEva DillonBrian K. DonovanRobert R. DouglassAnne F. EdgarAdam O. EmmerichDaniel EutwistleRichard EstesPatricia H. FalkE.S. Whitney FarnumThom FiliciaMelissa FisherNora FisherKate FlanaganBarbara G. FleischmanElizabeth C. ForsterAdaline FrelinghuysenRichard Frey & Janet Lardis FreyAnn-Isabel FriedmanLewis FriedmanKelley Jackson GarciaRosemary GintyRonald M. GoldHerbert B. GoldbergDiahne GrosjeanMichael GrublerMr. & Mrs. Henry GuettelSteve Marc HankinVictoria HansenMary HardinMarion O. HarrisChris Harris & Elizabeth ParrilliMr. & Mrs. Morrison H. HeckscherKirk HenckelsWilson HenleyPaul HertherKim HicksPhilip HillierLouise HirschAlex HoerleJudith M. HoffmanMr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Hoopes, Jr.Molly HoverLeslie & Mark HullSarah F. HunnewellMr. & Mrs. Robert D. HuxleyJulian IragorriAnna JeffreyElizabeth JenkinsErica JohnsonHoward E. JohnsonKatherine KannapellDavid A. Katz & Cecilia T. Absher

Rita KavanaghElizabeth W. KearnsAbigail KeelerPhillip KelloggJessie McClintock KellyDorothy KellyIrma J. KennedyElizabeth Ann KiulanMr. & Mrs. Edgar R. KoernerEdna M. KonoffElena M. KornbluthPhyllis B. LambertLarry LazerwitzMr. & Mrs. Edwin Deane LeonardJoseph M. LePiqueWayne A. LinkerMr. & Mrs. Walter LoebAmira LuikartKen LustbaderMr. & Mrs. Timothy MacDonaldNorman & Norris MailerWilliam M. Manger, Jr.Heidi MatheyPeter J. MayerJennifer McSweeneyKate MecklerRoger MichaelsKatherine B. MikelMrs. Lynden B. MillerAnn H. MilneRichard E. MooneyLawrence K. MossMaura MoynihanMarian O. NaumburgKatherine NedelkoffStephen NesbitWilliam NickersonErika W. Nijenhuis & Christian BastianDavis NoellMichael O'NealRoger B. OresmanMr. & Mrs. Everett H. OrtnerTatiana G. PapanicolaouJames T. Parkinson IIINicholas & Carol PaumgartenDavid Pearce, M.D.Nancy & Otis PearsallMarjorie PearsonRachel PetersDale PetersonDiana PetroffEmilia Fanjul Pfeifler & Brian PfeiflerJeffrey PfeilMichael PhillipsCharlotte PontilloDonald & Ilona QuestPaul ResikaElizabeth Nisbet & Dale ReynoldsClifford RichnerEileen L. Robert

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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Peg Breen,Marian Heiskell, and Donald Tober

Ellyn and James Polshek Robin Graham and John MorningElaine Kaufman Stanley and Pat Brilliant

Oscar Anderson, Kathryn McGraw Berry,Farran Tozer Brown, and Stuart Siegel

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Charles RobyMaryanne RuggieroAndrew RussellBret E. RussellEllen SackoffElisabeth Saint-AmandArthur SamuelsNorbert W. Sander, Jr.Josie SandlerHelen SchifterMr. & Mrs. Anthony D. SchlesingerCharlotte SchoenfeldCharlotte and Peter SchoenfeldThomas F. SchutteMr. & Mrs. Stanley D. ScottJane F. ScovellH.L. SeidelPatricia Bakwin SelchFelice SheaBarnett ShepherdRobert A. Silver, M.D.Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. SilvermanGrant G. Simmons, Jr.Kimberly SimontonStephanie SirotaAndrew SmithKatherine SouleSusan W. StachelbergJuliana StarbuckTimothy StarkDavid A. SteinMr. & Mrs. Gerald G. StiebelMarcus Stinchi

David StolmanMr. & Mrs. Murray StoltzNancy SwongJose Maria TrullolsLaurence M. TurkWilliam C. Ughetta, Jr.Elizabeth Glynn ValentinePamela Van IngenTielman Van VleckMr. & Mrs. Lee VanceJacqueline Montras & Robert D. VitaloTom Von EssenSamantha WalkerReverend John H. Walsted &

Reverend Gerald KeucherMr. & Mrs. William B. WarrenJohn P. WaughLynne WaxmanJohn Conrad WeiserLeah WengerNada & David WestermanMarshall D. WhalenWilliam O. Wheatley, Jr.Barbara WilhelmDaniel E. WilliamsBarbara WristonWolodomyr WronskyjJoan YatskoEdward YolchkoScott ZenkoBettina ZilkhaMr. & Mrs. Daniel Zucker

Foundations, Corporations,Public Agencies & OtherOrganizations

$100,000 and aboveLuEsther T. Mertz Advised FundThe Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust

$50,000-$99,999The Achelis and Bodman FoundationsBooth Ferris FoundationThe New York Community Trust

$25,000-$49,999Altman FoundationThe Ambrose Monell FoundationHenry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc.IAC/InterActiveCorpNew York State Council on the ArtsThe Prospect Hill FoundationSony Corporation of AmericaSotheby's International Realty, Inc.

$10,000-$24,999American Express CompanyThe Barker Welfare FoundationBloombergBovis Lend Lease, LMB, Inc.The Conde Nast Publications Inc.F.J. Sciame Construction Co., Inc.Forbes, Inc.

Living Landmarks Reunion

Landmark Elaine Kaufman hosted the galakick-off party at her legendary restaurant. Over 85 people joined us in welcoming two ofour new Living Landmarks, Elizabeth Rohatynand Marty Segal, as well as returningLandmarks: Helen Gurley Brown and DavidBrown, Walter Cronkite, Ahmet Ertegun,Vartan Gregorian, Marian Heiskell, Ray Kelly,Dr. Mathilde Krim, and Mary McFadden.

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Gould Family FoundationGladys and Roland Harriman

FoundationHagedorn FundThe J.P. Morgan Chase FoundationThe Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, Inc.The Marc Haas FoundationMarshall Rose Family Foundation, Inc.Newman's Own, Inc.The News Corporation FoundationThe New York TimesThe Overbrook FoundationThe Reed Foundation, Inc.Simpson Thacher & BartlettStribling & Associates, Ltd.Sugar Foods Corporation

$5,000-$9,999Adrian & Jessie Archbold Charitable

TrustBeyer Blinder BelleThe Blanche Enders Charitable TrustCharles Stewart Mott FoundationEdith and Herbert Lehman Foundation,

Inc.42nd Street Development CorporationJ.M. Kaplan FundJames A. Macdonald FoundationThe Leonard & Evelyn Lauder

FoundationThe Liman FoundationMay and Samuel Rudin Family

Foundation, Inc.New York Stock ExchangeThe New York Times Company

FoundationNorth Fork BankThe Philanthropic Collaborative, Inc.Roy J. Zuckerberg Family FoundationSamuel H. Kress FoundationSony BMG Music EntertainmentState Senator Liz Krueger/New York

State Office of Parks, Recreationand Historic Preservation

The Tebil FoundationTrust for Mutual Understanding

$2,500-4,999Arnow Family FundThe Cathedral of St. John the DivineCon EdisonEpiscopal Diocese of New YorkThe Howard Bayne FundInstitute for Advanced StudyNorthern New York Community

FoundationThe Rita & Daniel Fraad Foundation,

Inc.

Schtiller & Plevy, Inc.Sidney & Judith Kranes Charitable

Trust

$1,000-$2,499AKRF, Inc.Archer Daniels Midland FoundationBeavertides FoundationBuilding Conservation Associates, Inc.Capalino + CompanyCharina FoundationThe Cowles Charitable TrustFirst Republic BankGolden Family FoundationGreen-Wood CemeteryH3 Hardy CollaborationHenry B. Plant Memorial FundInternational Debutante Ball

FoundationJulien J. Studley, Inc.Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLPThe Leon Levy FoundationMarcum & Kliegman LLPThe Nash Family FoundationNational Trust for Historic

Preservation's John E. Streb Preservation Services Fund for New York

NYC & Company, Inc.The New York Public LibraryNew York Road Runners ClubThe Old Stones FoundationPlatt Byard Dovell White, Architects

LLPPolshek Partnership ArchitectsRFR RealtyRussell Maguire FoundationS. W. Management LLCThornton-Tomasetti Engineers, P.C.

$500-$999Apple Bank The Gramercy Park FoundationHenry C. & Karen J. Barkhorn

FoundationLandmark Facilities Group, Inc.Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design

PartnershipManhattan BrownstoneNicholson & Galloway Inc.Robert and Joyce Menschel Family

FoundationThe Rockefeller FoundationTri-Star Equities, Inc.Kaitsen Woo & J. Raible ArchitectsThe Woodworks Company, Ltd.

$100-$499Altman, Greenfield & Selvaggi, LLPAnita Bartholin Brandt ArchitectsAspro Mechanical Contracting, Inc.Basonas Construction CorporationCaxton Associates, LLCdi Domenico and Partners, LLPDomingo Gonzalez Associates Friends of the High LineGraciano CorporationHelpern ArchitectsHistoric Districts CouncilLZA TechnologyMetropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Transit AuthorityPage Ayres Cowley Architects, LLCPRESERV Building Restoration

ManagementRobert Silman Associates, P.C. Danielle Roberts InteriorsRohlf's Stained & Leaded Glass StudioThe Schoenfeld Foundation

In-Kind Contributions

Simpson Thacher & BartlettForbes, Inc.Aby Rosen / RFR HoldingsGeneral Theological SeminaryElaine'sArnold Scaasi and Parker LaddCartierGrey GooseDewar'sBrooklyn BreweryBorgheseDior BeautyLittle Brown & CompanyStarwood Preferred Guest

We honored Pratt Institute’s HigginsHall with a Moses Award.

Circle Tours

Real Estate, Professional, and Conservancy Circle members enjoy speciallyarranged, behind-the-scenes tours of preservation and architectural projectsthroughout the city.

Circle members were treated to hard-hat tours of the construction projectexpanding the J.P. Morgan Library and Museum. Arranged by the expan-sion’s project manager, Joseph Mizzi of Sciame Construction, the exclusivetours were led by architect Frank J. Prial, Jr. of Beyer Blinder Belle. Weviewed the new 280 seat auditorium, located five stories below ground, aswell as Renzo Piano's glass and steel centerpiece that links the three historic buildings.

We enjoyed an intimate tour of the interior and exterior renovations of India House—one of the oldest and most venera-ble downtown landmarks, dating from 1854. Architect Herbert Solomon explained his work on the exterior restoration,and India House Club manager Andrew Curtis led the interior tour. The Conservancy has provided technical assistance toIndia House for several years and awarded the project our Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award in 2004 for the extensiverestoration of its three brownstone façades.

We toured the new centerpiece linking the J.P.Morgan Library’s historic buildings.

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Professional Circle

145 AntiquesA. Ottavino CorporationAcheson Doyle PartnersADG/Architecture & Design GroupADL III Architecture, P.C.Air-Flo Window Contracting Corp.Alexander Antonelli Architects, PLLCAltieri Sebor Wieber, LLPArchitectural Interior Maintenance, Inc.Artistic Doors and Windows, Inc.Atkinson Koven Feinberg EngineersAurora Lampworks, Inc.Bareau DesignsRichard Baronio & AssociatesBaschnagel Bros., Inc.Jeffrey Berman, ArchitectBero Architecture, P.C.Bertolini Architectural WorksBeyer Blinder BelleLeo J. Blackman ArchitectsJoseph K. Blum Co., LLPMr. Lee BorreroBovis Lend Lease, LMB, Inc.Bresnan Architects, P.C.Brisk Waterproofing Company, Inc.Building Conservation Associates, Inc.Burda Construction Corp.Butler Rogers BaskettByron Bell Architects and PlannersJohn Canning & Co., Ltd.Cityproof Corp.Clerkin Higgins Stained Glass, Inc.Mr. Leonard Colchamiro

Diane Olbright CollinsCommercial Roofing Solutions, Inc.Concord Painting, Inc.Cook + Fox ArchitectsCooper, Robertson & PartnersCrawford & Stearns, ArchitectsCultural Resource Consulting GroupCurtis + Ginsberg Architects, LLPCutsogeorge Tooman & Allen

Architects, P.C.De Groot Historical Restoration, Inc.Deerpath Construction Corp.Denham Wolf Real Estate Services, Inc.Ms. Mary B. DierickxDMS Studios, Ltd.DNA Contracting & Waterproofing, LLCDomingo Gonzalez Associates East End Wood StrippersEdelman Sultan Knox Wood

Architects, LLPEhrenkrantaz Eckstut & Kuhn

ArchitectsEipel Barbieri Marschhausen, LLPMarie Ennis, P.E.Evens, Inc.EverGreene Painting Studios, Inc.Facade Maintenance Design, P.C.Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, LLPRoger Ferris + Partners, LLCFifty Three Restorations, Inc.Flickinger Glassworks, Inc.Franco Remodeling Corp.Franke, Gottsegen, Cox ArchitectsFrederick Cox Architect, PCDonald FriedmanGeiger Construction Co., Inc.

Robert F. Germain, M.E., P.E.Gertler Wente Kerbeykian ArchitectsJamie Gibbs & AssociatesThe Gil Studio, Inc.Gilsanz Murray Steficek, LLPGladding, McBean & CompanyGlass & Glass, ArchitectsGluck New York, Inc.Goldman Copeland Associates, P.C.Ludwig Michael Goldsmith, AIAGrand Renovation, Inc.Green-Wood CemeteryGruzen Samton Planners & Interior

Designers, LLPDavid D. Harlan Architects, LLCHeights WoodworkingMr. Charles H. Henkels, AIAScott Henson ArchitectHiggins & QuasebarthHoffmann ArchitectsHolland & Heim, Inc.Holy Land Art Company, Inc.Homestead Chimney, Inc.The Stephen B. Jacobs GroupJMA Consultants, Inc.Marilyn Kaplan Preservation

ArchitectureKathryn Scott Design StudioMichael A. Kaye, Esq.The Kibel Companies, LLCMary KnackstedtCostas Kondylis & Partners, LLPScott Koniecko, ArchitectMr. Mitchell KurtzJ & R Lamb Studio, Inc.Landmark Facilities Group, Inc.

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Kenneth D. Levien, AIALFA ArchitectsLi/Saltzman Architects, P.C.Lichten Craig ArchitectsDouglas J. Lister ArchitectMaidman and Mittelman, LLPMancini DuffyManhattan Brownstone, Inc.Marcus Rosenberg & Diamond, LLPWalter B. Melvin Architects, LLCMidtown Preservation, P.C.Charles Miles Construction Corp.Millwork SpecialtiesMitropoulos ArchitectsMr. Daniel P. MoranCraig Morrison, ArchitectMurphy Burnham & Buttrick

ArchitectsNelson & Edwards Company

ArchitectsNeuhaus Design Architecture, P.C.New Wood Co.New York City Brickwork

Design CenterNicholson & Galloway, Inc.Norfast Consulting Group, Inc.Ohlhausen DuBois Architects, PLLCOlde Good ThingsParagon Restoration CorporationPeter Pennoyer Architects P.C.Mariann G. Perseo, Esq.Jean Parker Phifer, AIAJan Hird Pokorny Associates, Inc.Lee Harris Pomeroy AssociatesPreCon LogStrat, LLCPremier Restoration TechnologiesPreservation Design GroupPro So Co, Inc.F.M. Pucci and Associates, Ltd.Quennell Rothschild AssociatesRambusch Decorating Company, Inc.

Rand Engineering and Architecture, P.C.Renfro Design Group, Inc.The Residential Interiors CorporationJames W. Rhodes, FAIADanielle Roberts InteriorsRobinson Contracting Co.Rohlf's Stained & Leaded Glass StudioTrix Rosen PhotographyVictor Rothman for Stained GlassRothzeid Kaiserman Thomson

& Bee, P.C.Reed Rubey, ArchitectRussel Watsky, Inc.Ryan-Biggs Associates, PCScarano and Associates Architects

and BuildersG.P. Schafer Architect, PLLCSchwartz's Forge & Metalworks, Inc.Seaboard WeatherproofingWalter Sedovic ArchitectsSieg Design & Construction Assoc. Inc.Robert Silman Associates, P.C. Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.SKO Architecture, P.C.Ms. Julie L. SloanSMA Architecture Planning

Interiors, P.C.Spitzer and Associates, ArchitectsStar Metal, Inc.William Stivale - Building ConservatorSuperstructuresTMT Restoration Consultants, Ltd.Tobin + Parnes Design EnterprisesTonetti Associates ArchitectsTraditional Line, Ltd.Uberto, Ltd.Universal Builders Supply, Inc.Urban D.C., Inc.Vandenberg, Inc.VDAVertical Access, LLC

Vigneau & Associates Architects, LLCW & W Cornerstone, LLCJohn G. Waite Associates

Architects, PLLCWank Adams Slavin Associates, LLPWatertrol, Inc.Weidlinger Associates, Inc.West New York Restoration of CT, Inc.Wireless EDGE Consultants, LLCWLA Engineering, P.C.The Woodworks Company, Ltd.Linda M. Yowell ArchitectsZaskorski & Notaro Architects,

AIA, LLPZubatkin Associates, Inc.

Real Estate Circle

141 Fifth Avenue CompanyA.R. Walker & Co., Inc.Associated Builders & OwnersEd Tristram Associates, Inc.Estreich & CompanyFriedman & Gotbaum, LLPGoldman PropertiesThe Malkin Fund, Inc.Newmark & Company

Real Estate, Inc.Ms. Annette PetrusaSlater & Beckerman, LLPVornado Realty Trust

Invest in the Future of New York

By remembering the New York Landmarks Conservancy in your estate planning,you can ensure that New York’s historic buildings and neighborhoods will remaina resource to be used and appreciated by generations to come. By supporting theConservancy and our efforts to preserve the past, you are making an investmentin New York’s future.

If you or your financial advisor would like information about naming theConservancy in your will or designating the Conservancy a beneficiary of a chari-table trust, insurance policy, appreciated securities, or real estate, please contactDaniel Vincent, Director of Development, New York Landmarks Conservancy,141 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10010, 212-995-5260, ordanielvincent@nylandmarks.org. Our advocacy helped the Keuffel &

Essler building in Lower Manhattanreceive landmark designation.

Young Landmarks

More than 400 stylish, young New Yorkers gathered on the Lever HouseTerrace for our first Young Landmarks Celebration.

Specially designed posters through-out the space highlighted several of theCity’s modernist treasures, includingLincoln Center, the Whitney Museum,the TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport,the New York State Pavilion from the1964 World’s Fair, and, of course, LeverHouse. The posters, as well as thesleek Young Landmarks invitation,were created by Side Designs. GreyGoose, Dewar’s, and Brooklyn Breweryprovided liquor, and The Juilliard JazzEnsemble performed. Prizes for thebenefit drawing were donated byStarwood Preferred Guest, Sergio Rossi,and Borghese.

Aby Rosen, principal of RFR holdings, owner of Lever House, donatedthe magnificent space for the evening. The Conservancy presented Mr.Rosen with our Chairman’s Award and Lucy G. Moses Award in 2002 forthe outstanding renovation of this 1953 modernist masterpiece by GordonBunshaft and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

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Acknowledgements

The Landmarks Conservancy wouldlike to thank the architects, contrac-tors, consultants, and colleagues whohelped make our success in 2005:

Councilmember Tony Avella Simeon Bankoff, Historic

Districts CouncilKent Barwick, Lisa Kearsavage, and

Frank Sanchis, Municipal ArtSociety

Baschnagel RoofingAndrew Berman, Greenwich

Village Society for Historic Preservation

Councilmember Gale BrewerBurda ConstructionRay Clagnan and Tom Garcia,

The Gil StudioRichard Cook, Cook + Fox,

ArchitectsCutsogeorge, Tooman & Allen

Architects, P.C.William Dailey, Building and Zoning

Consultant

Easton Architects, LLPJohn Evans and Frank Sciame,

Sciame DevelopmentField Services Bureau, NY State

Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Ken Follet, PCLS, PreCon LogStrat, LLC

David Fraser, Brooklyn Stained Glass Conservation Center

Friends of the Upper East Side Historic District

Roseanne Haggerty, Common Ground Community

Jan Hird Pokorny Architects & Planners

Holliman Associates, Inc.Jablonski Berkowitz Conservation, Inc.Landmark Facilities Group, Inc.Li/Saltzman Architects, P.C.Marilyn Kaplan,

Preservation/Architectur

Doug J. Lister, ArchitectDavid Garrard Lowe,

Beaux Arts AllianceKenneth Lustbader, Lower

Manhattan Emergency Preservation Fund

Timothy Lynch and RobertSilman, Robert Silman Associates, P.C.

Judith R. McAlpin, Save Ellis Island, Inc.

Walter B. Melvin, ArchitectRobert Pirani, Regional Plan

AssociationRobert C. Quinlan, Quinlan &

Field, Inc.Ruotolo Associates, Inc.Robert Silman AssociatesThornton-Tomasetti GroupTom Venturella, Venturella StudioVertical AccessAnastasia P. VournasKaitsen Woo Architects P.C.Kate Wood, Landmark West!

left: Hosts Aby Rosen, Lever House owner, and Farran Tozer Brown, Board Member

Guests enjoyed the Lever House Terrace

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Financial Statement

Statement of ActivitiesYear Ended December 31, 2005

Support and Revenue Contributions $Government grantsOther grantsNew York City Historic Properties Fund, Inc. reimbursementInvestment return used for operationsProgram services incomeSub-tenant rental incomeContributed services

Total Support and Revenue $

Expenses Program $AdministrativeDevelopment

Total Expenses $

Support and Revenue over Expenses $

Investments Non-operating investment return

Support, Revenue, and Investments over Expenses $

Net Assets, Beginning $Net Assets, Ending $

Statement of Financial PositionDecember 31, 2005

Assets Cash and cash equivalents $Cash and cash equivalents held for other agenciesPrepaid expensesInvestmentsLoans receivablePledges receivableDue from New York City Historic Properties Fund, Inc.Property and equipment, net

Total Assets $

Liabilities Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $Grants payableDue to New York City Historic Properties Fund, Inc.Amounts held for other agencies

Total Liabilities $

Net Assets UnrestrictedUndesignated $Board Designated

Total UnrestrictedTemporarily RestrictedPermanently Restricted

Total Net Assets $Total Liabilities and Net Assets $

A copy of the complete financial statements for 2005 is available upon request from the New York LandmarksConservancy, 141 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010

2,140,709 63,145

433,723 329,152 227,157 48,919 74,839

319,817

3,637,461

2,532,061 655,065 456,158

3,643,284

(5,823)

381,225

375,402

8,362,442 8,737,844

964,865 336,468 18,469

7,901,659 1,191

50,100 35,075

280,593

9,588,420

40,021 425,805 48,282

336,468

850,576

836,309 3,769,619 4,605,928 1,318,848 2,813,068

8,737,844 9,588,420

Youth from preservation training programs helped restorethe Prince George Ballroom, which received both ourMoses Award and a Historic Properties Fund loan.

Advisory Council

Laurie BeckelmanKathryn McGraw BerryRobert W. BurnettAubria Corbitt, Esq.Henry P. Davison IIPeter DuchinNorton GarfinkleMargaret Brennan HassettStephen KirschenbaumRonald S. LauderMalcolm MacKayMarjorie Flannigan MacLachlanJohn MorningSherida PaulsenRobert C. QuinlanMaribeth RaheArnold ScaasiStuart N. SiegelLiz SmithThe Reverend Canon Frederick B. Williams

2005 Board of Directors

John J. Kerr, ChairmanFrank J. Sciame, Jr., Vice ChairmanElizabeth F. Stribling, SecretaryMichael K. De Chiara, Esq., TreasurerPeg Breen, President

John Belle, FAIA, RIBAWilliam L. BernhardFarran Tozer BrownPaul S. Byard, FAIAJoan O. CaminsPamela Rubin Carter, Esq.Anne CoffinSusan R. CullmanDouglas DurstStuart P. FeldJohn M. Forelle, Esq.Robert C. Graham, Jr.Clark P. HalsteadPaul K. HerzanHolly HotchnerSusan Henshaw Jones Stephen S. LashMimi LevittFrederic S. PapertAllison Simmons Prouty, Esq.Marla SaboFrances G. ScaifeMarc P. SchappellFrank J. Sciame, Jr.David Kenneth Specter, AIAJoanne M. SternDonald G. ToberLloyd Zuckerberg

Staff

Karen Ansis, Manager, New York City Historic Properties Fund and City Ventures FundCarol Braun, Manager of Events*John Chaich, Manager of CommunicationsJen Datka, Development AssociateAnn-Isabel Friedman, Director, Sacred Sites ProgramKalyani Glass, Manager of Communications*Ronald C. Goewey, BookkeeperAndrea Goldwyn, Fund Program Coordinator, New York City Historic Properties FundAlex Herrera, Director of Technical Services Melissa Izzo, Office Manager*Roger P. Lang, Director, Community Programs and ServicesJames J. Mahoney, Fund Program Coordinator, New York City Historic Properties FundStephen Nesbit, Office ManagerElizabeth McTigue, Manager, Grants and Technical ServicesLucy Roche, Associate Director of DevelopmentAmy Sullivan, Manager of EventsL. Daniel Vincent, Director of Development and Finance* on staff through mid-2005

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The New York Landmarks Conservancy is dedicated to preserving, enhancing, revitalizing, and reusingarchitecturally significant buildings in New York City.

Through pragmatic leadership, financial and technicalassistance programs, advocacy, and public education,the Conservancy ensures that New York’s historicallyand culturally significant buildings, streetscapes, and neighborhoods remain a legacy to be used, appreciated,and enjoyed by all who live in, work in, and visit New York.

141 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 212-995-5260 www.nylandmarks.org