Events & News
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NYPAP News
“It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over” Preserving Your Preservation Legacy
December 31, 2020
By Anthony C. Wood, Archive Project Founder & Chair If you accept that you will die (hopefully no time soon)…
2020 Bard Breakfast to Honor Kay Ciganovic – Friends of George McAneny Founder to Receive Preservation Award
December 31, 2020
The Archive Project’s seventeenth annual Bard Birthday Breakfast Benefit steps boldly into the virtual realm, a first for the beloved…
Finding Joy -and More- In Our Preservation History Database
December 31, 2020
By Peter Sohmer, Reisinger Scholar Where can one find detailed information on preservation battles that range from the successful, like…
In Memoriam
December 31, 2020
Architect Charles A. Platt, founding partner of Platt Byard Dovell White Architects LLP died on August 18, 2020. He served…
NYPAP News
December 31, 2020
The Archive Project has received a grant from the Peggy N. & Roger G. Gerry Charitable Trust that facilitates a…
In Memoriam
December 31, 2020
Longtime preservation activist, writer, historian and genealogist Mary Ann DiNapoli, a champion of recognizing and landmarking remnants of Little Syria…
COLLECTING THE NOW: EFFORTS CAPTURING 2020 INSPIRE PRESERVATIONISTS
December 10, 2020
Elizabeth Rohn Jeffe
BY ELIZABETH ROHN JEFFE, VICE CHAIR Preservation history takes two forms. On the one hand, it may center on…
Preservation, Pestilence, and Uncertain Times
August 17, 2020
By Anthony C. Wood, Archive Project Founder & Chair In times of great upheaval, solace can come from those things…
Notes from the Board
August 17, 2020
Michael Ryan Michael Ryan | Courtesy of Michael Ryan Although I began my professional life fresh with a Ph.D. in…
2019 Bard Breakfast Honors Otis Pratt Pearsall
August 17, 2020
Speaker Priscilla Hancock Cooper Highlights Preservation of Civil Rights Sites Otis Pratt Pearsall receives the Archive Project’s 2019 Preservation Award…