The Landmark Society of Western New York, Inc.

The Landmark Society welcomed two new staff members this week! You'll be seeing a lot more of Preservation Outreach Coordinators (Co-Coordinators?!) Becky Timmons and Ryan Jarles on our social media platforms. They will be working together to manage community outreach and digital media, and will work closely with the preservation team on fee-for-service projects. Becky and Ryan both moved to Rochester after spending many years in the south, so they're looking forward to mild summer weather and exploring all that the region has to offer! https://www.landmarksociety.org/becky-timmons-and-ryan-jar/

Join us for a presentation on the History of Rochester's Parks, hosted by the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County NY Thursday, April 22nd at 6pm on Zoom! Learn about landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted's influence on Rochester parks, and how park lands have reflected societal values and trends. Caitlin Meives, our Director of Preservation will co-present along with Katie Eggers Comeau, Architectural Historian at Bero Architecture; and JoAnn Beck, President of the Highland Park Conservancy. This event is free and open to the public! Register at https://calendar.libraryweb.org/event/7369658?hs=a

Missing international travel? Join us this evening at 7pm EST for an online tour of Italy-inspired architecture in Rochester, in partnership with Yelp Rochester. Register here: https://www.yelp.com//rochester-yvv-italianate-or-italiano

You don't need a passport for this trip to Italy : join us for an online tour of Rochester's Italy-inspired architecture next Tuesday, in partnership with Yelp Rochester:

Need something new more than one year into the pandemic? Our Stone-Tolan House Historic Site - the oldest surviving building in Monroe County, once a tavern - has newly reopened for tours on Friday and Saturday afternoons by appointment! Reserve your time below

Get that #preservation project done in the new year: registration for our winter session courses through SUNY Geneseo and in partnership with Genesee Country Village & Museum and Perry Main Street Association closes January 4th! All welcome, including anyone interested in historic preservation and working with their hands https://www.geneseo.edu/cil/learn/preservation

Admired Highland Park's Warner Castle from the outside, but longed to go inside? Here's our holiday gift to the community: an extensive, virtual tour of the work we've done with Monroe County Parks Department and construction partners inside the Castle as we make it our new organizational home! landmarksociety.org/thisoldcastle As you watch, consider making a year-end gift of your own to our organization, to be a part of the similarly catalytic transformations we make possible in communities across our region through preservation: https://www.landmarksociety.org/product/donation/

Have you been eagerly awaiting news on what is happening behind the castle doors of our new home? You've got a holiday gift coming: watch "A Virtual Housewarming Tour of Warner Castle" when it goes public next Monday, December 28th! In the meantime, get a sneak peak with the trailer below. Also in the meantime, consider making a year-end contribution to our organization, to be a part of the similarly catalytic transformations we make possible in communities across our region: https://www.landmarksociety.org/product/donation/

See your neighborhood in a new way in the new year, after attending our Young Urban Preservationists' two online architectural history classes at the Rochester Brainery: https://rochesterbrainery.com/collections/history/

Signaling all who love the historic buildings in our community and believe in their catalytic potential: join us as we announce and recognize the recipients of our 2020 #Preservation Awards in an online ceremony this coming Sunday December 6th at 3:00! Past recipients include the team - led by project designers Bero Architecture PLLC - behind the restoration of 1822 Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse, the oldest active #lighthouse on Lake Ontario's US side. Register here: https://www.landmarksociety.org//preservation-awards-annu/

We hope you'll consider us in your #ROCtheDay / #GivingTuesday giving: your donation to #preservation-related non-profits can have a tremendously catalytic impact in our community, as in the case of 54 Madison down the street from Susan B. Anthony Museum & House in #RochesterNY (before/after), which received financial help from our Preservation Grant Fund. Many thanks in advance - donations accepted here until midnight: https://www.roctheday.org//Landmark-Society-of-Western-New Consider giving to the SBA House, too!

Join us, Genesee Country Village & Museum, and #RochesterNY Housing Development Fund Corporation to celebrate the catalytic impact your donations to #preservation-related non-profits can have in our community this #GivingTuesday / #ROCtheDay at our online trivia event tonight : https://www.landmarksociety.org/email/roc-the-day/ And thanks for your giving at https://www.roctheday.org//Landmark-Society-of-Western-New

After languishing for several decades, municipal offices and residents were moved into the rehabbed former Holley High School this year; this is the kind of catalytic work your end-of-year giving can spark for #RochesterNY-area communities Your support for our 2020 Annual Fund will be tremendously helpful in allowing this work to continue in communities across the region in the new year and beyond. Thanks in advance for your generous giving: https://www.landmarksociety.org/product/donation/

Today is #ROCtheDay / #GivingTuesday: we're teaming up with Genesee Country Village & Museum and the #RochesterNY Housing Development Fund Corporation to remind you of the catalytic impact your donations to #preservation-related non-profits can have in our community; the former Holley High School, listed on our inaugural #FivetoRevive list in 2013 and recently rehabbed for municipal offices and housing, is a great example! To give to The Landmark Society: https://www.rocth...eday.org//Landmark-Society-of-Western-New To give to Genesee Country Village & Museum: https://www.roctheday.org//Genesee-Country-Village-Museum- To give to Rochester Housing Development Fund Corporation: https://www.roctheday.org//Rochester-Housing-Development-F

This year's events are asking us to be ever better neighbors to each other; preservation is one of the collective tools we have to do this, recognizing the uniqueness and dignity of the places we and our neighbors inhabit and preparing the built environment to accommodate our hopes for the most inclusive future we can envision for ourselves. PLEX Neighborhood Association is inviting us as preservationists, and many other stakeholders with other talents, to this University of Rochester Rochester Center for Community Leadership online panel discussion tonight "See" you there, neighbor!

Our 50th Annual House & Garden Tour (virtual) has been extended by popular demand! Tickets now available at this link through Wednesday at 7:00PM, with access to the online tour open through late that evening: https://www.landmarksociety.org/housetour/ Title Sponsor / Honorary Chair: Jamie Columbus, CEO+Broker at Judy's Broker Network AIA Rochester credits available

Spend some of your weekend lounging (virtually) in seven historic homes across the #RochesterNY region! Get your tickets for this last weekend of our 50th Annual House & Garden Tour (virtual) now: https://www.landmarksociety.org/housetour/ Title Sponsor / Honorary Chair: Jamie Columbus, CEO+Broker at Judy's Broker Network AIA Rochester credits available

No need to gussy up for our ongoing online 50th Annual House & Garden Tour (virtual)! Instead, enjoy details of seven historic homes across the #RochesterNY region - including this elegant hand-painted washroom - from the comfort of your own home Tickets available through Sunday evening: https://www.landmarksociety.org/housetour/

Exciting to see another of our past #FivetoRevive properties start to be "repurposed for new life in the 21st century", as architect Clinton Brown Company Architecture, pc says in the video link below. Congratulations to all in the coalition that got us here, including Friends of Parrott Hall, Preservation League of New York State, and City of Geneva, NY! Stay tuned for the announcement of this year's #FivetoRevive in mid-November, and in the meantime, learn more about the program here: https://www.landmarksociety.org/programs/five-to-revive/

Lounge in this living room (and six others in historic homes across the Rochester region) from your living room when you sign on to our ongoing 50th Annual House & Garden Tour (virtual) ! Online ticketing open through the close of this virtual tour on October 18th: https://www.landmarksociety.org/housetour/ Title Sponsor / Honorary Chair: Jamie Columbus, CEO+Broker at Judy's Broker Network The American Institute of Architects credits available

These doors (and those in five more historic houses across our region) open for you Friday night for our 50th Annual House & Garden Tour (virtual)! Tickets available through the close of the virtual tour on October 18th: https://www.landmarksociety.org/housetour/

Enjoy these historic fireplaces on our 50th Annual House & Garden Tour (virtual) from the warmth and comfort of your own home, however it is heated For more information and tickets: https://www.landmarksociety.org/housetour/ Title Sponsor / Honorary Chair: Jamie Columbus, CEO+Broker at Judy's Broker Network... AIA Rochester credits available

What's up these stairs? Find out when our virtual 50th Annual House & Garden Tour goes live on Friday evening! For more information and tickets: https://www.landmarksociety.org/housetour/ Title Sponsor / Honorary Chair: Jamie Columbus, CEO+Broker at Judy's Broker Network

Last chance to sign on for our Young Urban Preservationists' Rochester Brainery class tomorrow evening, on the landscape architects behind The Flower City's greenspaces

Mark the tail-end of Rochester's gardening season by attending our Young Urban Preservationists' virtual course on the Flower City's landscape architects this coming Tuesday, through the Rochester Brainery:

Many of the early events in the local LGBTQ rights movement occurred on the University of Rochester campus, pictured below in a 1967-1968 campus map; in this way, it will often be the backdrop for our virtual Fifth Annual Rochester LGBTQ Landmarks Tour this coming Saturday, October 3rd! More information and registration for the tour here: https://www.landmarksociety.org/wnylgbtqsites/