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The Landmark Society of Western New York, Preservation Buffalo Niagara and Preservation League of New York State are supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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On behalf of The Landmark Society of Western New York, I welcome you to the 2019 New York Statewide Preservation Conference! We are always excited to host our fellow preservationists here in Rochester and to show off all the great work that our City, its residents, and its leaders are engaging in. Since the Conference was last here in 2017, investment in downtown has continued to progress. The $200 million rehabilitation of Sibley Square is still going strong—you’ll be able to get a behind-the-scenes look at this award-winning adaptive reuse project during the Thursday afternoon tours. A significant portion of the Inner Loop—a highway encircling downtown— has been filled in and converted to an at-grade street. The vacant land created by this project is now being developed with new infill! Projects like the redevelopment of the white mid-century modern office tower at The Metropolitan have been completed; you’ll be able to experience this project firsthand during our Thursday night Meet & Greet. The redesign of Main Street, which was under construction in 2017, has now been completed and includes reduced traffic lanes, bike lanes, new sidewalk, and play elements along the sidewalks. Historic preservation continues to play a vital role in Rochester’s revitalization. The buildings you see along the north side of East Main Street (on our Five to Revive list) are gradually being rehabilitated after more than a decade of vacancy. Our staff is assisting several neighborhood groups in the Park Avenue neighborhood to complete one of the largest residential historic districts in NYS, with approximately 1600 properties, so that homeowners can access the NYS Historic Homeowners Tax Credit program. In spite of these positive changes, Rochester faces significant challenges that we cannot and should not ignore. Like other upstate New York cities and Rust Belt cities across the country, many of our urban neighborhoods feel the effects of decades of concentrated poverty, population loss, and systemic disinvestment. Preservation alone cannot solve these challenges but it certainly can be a part of the solution. By bringing preservationists and community advocates together and increasing our inclusion efforts, we hope the Conference can play at least a small role in addressing these persistent challenges. This Conference is a chance for all of us to come together, share strategies, make connections, and become inspired to create new ideas that we can bring back to our communities. Lastly, a word of thanks to everyone who has made this Conference possible: Thank you to our invaluable Conference partners, Preservation Buffalo Niagara, the Preservation League of New York State, and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation! Thank you to our sponsors and funders for their generous support, in particular our Title Sponsor, Rochester Colonial Manufacturing and our host, Winn Development. And thank you to everyone for attending and for working tirelessly to revitalize and improve New York’s historic communities. Enjoy the Conference and all that Rochester has to offer! Let myself or our staff know if there is anything we can do to make your stay more enjoyable.
Wayne Goodman Executive Director The Landmark Society of Western New York
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Dear Attendees of the 2019 New York Statewide Preservation Conference: Welcome to Rochester and thank you for choosing Sibley Square, in the heart of our downtown, for your event. At Sibley Square, you will see the best of what preservation can accomplish, taking a landmark building and giving it a bright future that honors the best of our city’s history. I cannot think of a better location for experts, advocates and community members to come together to share successes, challenges and new strategies around historic preservation. Together we can preserve our unique spaces, put them to new uses and share our heritage with future generations. I am also delighted to learn that you will be taking time to consider issues of diversity, inclusion and equity in the preservation movement. The City of Rochester recently participated in the National Day of Racial Healing (Jan. 22) by launching our Let’s Get REAL (Race, Equity and Leadership) initiative with concrete steps to address racial equity in our own community. It is time for all voices to be heard and to be a part of efforts to revitalize our cities, our economy, our communities and to shape our future. Preserving our common history – in all its diversity – will only make this nation stronger. So welcome and Godspeed. Thank you for enriching our community with your presence. May you find inspiration and friendship at the 2019 New York Statewide Preservation Conference.
Lovely Warren Mayor City of Rochester
Welcome, Preservation Friends! Preservation Buffalo Niagara is thrilled to have the opportunity once again to help our partners around the State with this wonderful event! PBN serves the seven western-most Counties of New York State, and we continue to strive to be the leadingedge, professional preservation organization that a region with our cultural riches deserves by working hard every day to fulfill our mission to identify, protect, and promote our unique architecture and historic legacy, and connect people to the places they love in Western New York. That last part of our mission statement is actually new. As we updated our strategic plan, we thought it was important to include the word people in the mission statement because as preservationists, many of our traditional tools involve talking about buildings and the past, but we know that we do this work because of our belief in people and the future, and we wanted to make sure that we were conveying that within our mission statement. We also wanted to include the word love in our mission statement because most often when people come to us for help, it is because of their love of their home or their neighborhood or a special place or moment in history. We wanted to be sure to recognize and honor that love right within our mission. By attending this conference, you are contributing to creating a stronger preservation movement in New York State. By sharing your knowledge and learning from the others here, you are making this a better State and we are so happy to have your company! Former Nature Conservancy President John Sawhill once said: “In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.” By coming here and by participating in this conference and in the preservation work you do at home, you signal that our historic places and communities are important and should not be destroyed. We are honored to stand with you to invest in and build up the wonderful State we all call home. Have fun and we will see you out there!
Jessie Fisher Executive Director Preservation Buffalo Niagara
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Welcome to the 2019 Statewide Preservation Conference! The Preservation League is thrilled to partner with the Landmark Society of Western New York, Preservation Buffalo Niagara, and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation for this event centered at the preservation award-winning Sibley Square. As architects, activists, preservationists, and building professionals, you are the people who are getting preservation done in your communities. At the Preservation League we are your statewide ally in these efforts – providing important grants and loans, information and education, advocacy and outreach, that help you to build the places that you want to live, and work and invest in. This conference provides an opportunity for you to come together and share best practices, learn about successful case studies, and explore preservation incentives that bring renewed life to beloved historic buildings. Here in Rochester, the ongoing rehabilitation project at the Sibley Building and the recently created East Main Street Historic District are wonderful examples of how we can all use preservation as a tool to revitalize our neighborhoods and downtowns. Thank you for joining us here in Rochester and I hope that you leave energized. After all, without your work in New York’s towns and villages, large and small, the work of groups like the Landmarks Society, the Preservation League and others, would be all but impossible.
Jay DiLorenzo President Preservation League of New York State
On behalf of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and Acting Commissioner Erik Kulleseid, welcome to the New York Statewide Preservation Conference. The New York State Historic Preservation Office is a national leader in advancing historic preservation. New York leads the nation in use of the federal tax credit, which has catalyzed over $5 billion in historic property investment over the last eight years. We have administered groundbreaking survey work focused on sites associated with LGBTQ history in New York City and are launching a survey of 20th Century sites associated with African American Civil Rights in western New York Our National Register program is the most robust in the nation, with nearly 6,500 listings; recent listings celebrate the great diversity of our state’s history and include properties such as the Colored Musicians Club in Buffalo, the immigrant neighborhoods of East Harlem, and post-World War II African American resort communities on Long Island. But for all this innovation and success, how effectively are we supporting your preservation needs at the neighborhood, municipal, or regional level? As we plan the future work of the State Historic Preservation Office, we look forward to better understanding how you want preservation to inform and protect quality of life and community character and economic development of your community. Welcome to Rochester and the learning, conversations and successes ahead!
R. Daniel Mackay Deputy Commissioner for Historic Preservation Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Division for Historic Preservation Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
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Schedule at a Glance THURSDAY, APRIL 25TH 10:00 AM 3:00 PM
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See map on page 34 for location details.
Pre-Conference Training
Increasing Cultural Competency in Historic Preservation Pre-registration required Sibley Square, 2nd floor. (use 260 E Main St. entrance).
3:30 5:00 PM
Tour 1:
Period Accuracy Window and Door Factory Tour at Rochester Colonial Manufacturing 1794 Lyell Ave.
Tour 2:
Stonewall 50 Years Out Walking Tour Meet in the lobby of Sibley Square at 3:30pm (use 260 E. Main St. entrance).
Tour 3:
Our Lady of Victory Church Restoration Project Tour Meet at the front entrance to the church, 210 Pleasant St.
Tour 4:
Behind the Scenes at Sibley Square Meet in the Spectra Leasing Office, located on the 2nd floor of Sibley Square (use 260 E Main St. entrance). 5:15 PM
Preservation Meet & Greet
Bar Bantam at The Metropolitan (1 S. Clinton Ave.)
FRIDAY, APRIL 26TH Registration & Networking
8:00 9:00 AM
Sibley Square, 2nd floor. (use 260 E. Main St. entrance)
Welcome
9:00 9:30 AM
Segregation and Redlining in Rochester Grace Road Church (50 Liberty Pole Way)
A Sessions
B Sessions
C Sessions
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All breakout sessions located in Sibley Square, 260 E Main St. SESSION BLOCK 1 9:45 11:00 AM
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Session 1A
Financing Preservation Projects: An In-Depth Look at Resources in NYS (Part 1 of 2)
Session 1B
SUNY Modern: Politics, Planning, and Preservation
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Community, Memory and a Sense of Place
Session 1D
Letchworth Gateway Villages: Leveraging heritage assets to fuel economic growth
FRIDAY, APRIL 26TH CONT’D SESSION BLOCK 2 11:15 AM 12:30 PM
Session 2A
Financing Preservation Projects: An In-Depth Look at Resources in NYS (Part 2 of 2)
12:30 1:30 PM
SESSION BLOCK 3 1:45 3:00 PM SESSION BLOCK 4 3:15 4:30 PM 5:00 6:30 PM
Session 2B
Historic Preservation Rehabilitation of Carolyn’s House, a Transitional Home for Homeless Women and their Children
See map on page 38 for location details. Session 2C
Shaking Up Preservation
Session 2D
Asbestos: The best building material ever. Now what?
Lunch & Networking
Sibley Square, 2nd floor (Use 260 E. Main St. entrance) Grab lunch and find a spot to munch and mingle! Session 3A
Session 3B
Session 3C
Session 3D
Session 4A
Session 4B
Session 4C
Session 4D
Climate Change, Renewable Energy, and Historic Preservation
Making Sense of SEQRA: Recent Amendments and Their Impacts on Municipal Review of Historic and Cultural Resources
James Johnson, Rochester’s Mid-Century Maverick: Documenting the Architecture of the Recent Past Rochester’s LGBTQ Landmarks: 50 Years After Stonewall
Sacred Spaces: Laying Foundations for Communities
Preserving Tangible and Intangible Heritage: Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass as a Case Study
Building & Restoring Communities through Real Estate Impact Investing
Certified Local Historic District: Where protection meets financial incentives
Keynote
A New Blueprint: Discussing the Importance of Diversity in Preservation Lee Bey | Architectural photographer, writer, and lecturer Grace Road Church (50 Liberty Pole Way, in the Temple Building)
6:30 9:30 PM
Preservation Partners Party
and Hidden in Plain Sight exhibit Reception immediately following the Keynote in Sibley Square, 2nd floor (use 260 E. Main St. entrance)
SATURDAY, APRIL 27TH 9:30 – 1030 AM
FIELD SESSIONS 11:00 AM 1:00 PM
Facilitated Conversation on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in Historic Preservation Sibley Square, 2nd floor (use 260 E. Main St. entrance) Coffee and breakfast pastries available starting at 9:00 AM. FIELD SESSION 1
Rochester’s Beechwood Neighborhood & City Roots Community Land Trust Meet at New City Café, 441 Parsells Ave.
FIELD SESSION 2
Rochester’s Public Market See Program insert for information on the meeting location, transportation, and parking for this field session.
FIELD SESSION 3
Restoring a Mid-Century Modern Landscape: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park at Manhattan Square Meet at the corner of Chestnut and Court Streets.
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SESSION DESCRIPTIONS & SCHEDULE THURSDAY, APRIL 25TH Pre-Conference Training Sibley Square, 2nd floor. Use 260 E Main St. entrance. 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM 4 AIA CES LUs Sponsored by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation
Increasing Cultural Competency in Historic Preservation Facilitated by Tanya Bowers Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Inclusivity (DEI) are terms that are being used more frequently in historic preservation. Staying relevant as the demographics of the communities we work with change becomes more imperative every day. Facilitator, Tanya Bowers, will lead us in exploring these concepts with an emphasis on increasing individual cultural competency, so that these learnings can transfer back to our organizations and agencies. Participants will gain an awareness and a skill set which will help them to work more effectively in cross-cultural situations. These learnings will add value as their organizations adapt to demographic changes in the populations they serve.
Her professional career began in New York City government. She has also had the honor of working for the Anti-Defamation League’s
Tanya Bowers has twenty years of experience as a diversity and inclusion practitioner and a consultant in organizational development. Tanya Bowers Consulting focuses on diversity change management, and clients include businesses, not-forprofit organizations, educational institutions, and governmental agencies.
Not long after moving to eastern Washington State, Tanya was appointed to the City of Pasco’s Planning Commission. Additionally she is an active member of the African American Community, Cultural, and Educational Society, and the Tri-Cities Chapter of the Links, Inc. She also serves on the board of the Tri-Cities Public Market. Tanya founded the East Pasco Mapping Project.
Tanya received a Master’s Degree in Psychology with a specialization in Applied Community Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles. In addition to graduating with honors from Wesleyan University as an interdisciplinary University Major in Urban Studies, Tanya completed programs at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Columbia Business School’s Institute for Not-forProfit Management, and the North Carolina Outward Bound School. When she moved to the Tri-Cities four year ago, Tanya Bowers served as the Director for Diversity at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. During that time she had the privilege of working with historic preservation and community revitalization organizations in developing diversity competency and also with underrepresented groups in building preservation capacity. 14
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A World of Difference Institute, the FutureWork Institute, the National Conference for Community and Justice, New York City Outward Bound, the Museum of Tolerance, the Los Angeles County Office of Affirmative Action Compliance, and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals. Her trainings, focus groups, and anti-bias work have taken her around the United States, to the Caribbean, and as far as South Africa.
Tours & Site Visits Starting at 3:30 PM
Tour 1:
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Period Accuracy Window and Door Factory Tour at Rochester Colonial Manufacturing Join Tim Forster and Kevin Hutton for a behind the scenes tour of Rochester Colonial Manufacturing/HeartWood Fine Windows and Doors facility. This AIA CES accredited 1.5 hour tour will demonstrate how period accurate windows and doors are created in a modern mill shop. Traditional joinery and classic profiles combined with unsurpassed craftsmanship and finishes bring history back to life. 3:30 PM Afternoon treats at Rochester Colonial 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM AIA CES accredited tour 1794 Lyell Ave., Rochester, just 4 miles from conference. Transportation is not provided.
Tour 2:
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over 150 years. Unfortunately, the interior was not so lucky and had endured many poor quality renovations and artistic schemes that left much to be desired. On this tour we will discuss the incredible story of the full historic restoration of the church’s interior including an international design team and extremely tight schedule of just over 12 months. Many of the craftspeople will be on site to tell their story and available for questions after the formal architectural tour. Meet at the front entrance to the church, 210 Pleasant St. (approximately 2 blocks / 5 minute walk from Conference hotel).
Tour 4: Behind the Scenes at Sibley Square Get a behind-the-scenes look at the ongoing rehabilitation of the Sibley Building, a $200 million project funded, in part, with state and federal historic tax credits. Tour will be led by staff from Winn Development. Meet in the Spectra Leasing Office, located on the 2nd floor of Sibley Square (260 E Main St. entrance). Take the business lobby elevators to the 2nd floor, then turn left into the office.
Stonewall 50 Years Out Walking Tour Join Evelyn Bailey, Rochester’s LGBTQ+ Historian, on a short walking tour of LGBTQ+ sites en route to the Rundel Memorial Library, where we will be met by Christine Ridarsky, City Historian, to view the Stonewall 50 Years Out exhibit. Meet in the lobby of Sibley Square at 3:30pm (use 260 E. Main St. entrance).
Tour 3:
Preservation Meet & Greet 5:30 PM Bar Bantam at The Metropolitan (1 S. Clinton Ave.) Sponsored by
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Our Lady of Victory Church Restoration Project Tour Our Lady of Victory church was built in 1868 and designed by Andrew Jackson Warner in the French Renaissance style. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1992, its exterior, including the church grounds have been lovingly maintained for
Catch up with old friends and make new ones at our opening night gathering at Bar Bantam. Light hors d’oeuvres provided. Cash bar. Dinner available for purchase.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26TH Registration & Networking 8:00 - 9:00 AM Sibley Square, 2nd floor. Use 260 E. Main St. entrance. Enjoy coffee and breakfast snacks while you chat with vendors and fellow attendees.
Welcome 9:00-9:30 AM Grace Road Church (50 Liberty Pole Way)
Segregation and Redlining in Rochester Shane Wiegand | City Roots Community Land Trust
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Financing Preservation Projects: An In-Depth Look at Resources in NYS (Part 1 of 2)
Josh Gewolb | Harter Secrest & Emery LLP Crystal Loffler | NYS Homes & Community Renewal Monica McCullough | MM Development Advisors Laura Smith | Harter Secrest & Emery LLP Scott Zorn | Grove St. Management This two-part session will provide an in-depth look at New York State and federal programs that can be used to help finance preservation projects in your community, many of which can leverage historic tax credit equity. Learn how sources like Low Income Housing Tax Credits, the Community Investment Fund, Brownfield Tax Credits, Restore NY, Downtown Revitalization Initiative, Opportunity Zones, and other programs have financed preservation projects throughout New York State. Case studies will be used to explore detailed financing models from projects actively under development. Hear from professionals who work with these programs at many different levels including attorneys, development consultants, and representatives of NYS agencies. Joshua E. Gewolb, an attorney in the Rochester office of Harter Secrest & Emery, has experience with a wide range of federal and state tax matters and assists clients with planning, corporate transactions, compliance, regulatory monitoring, and audits/ controversies. He is a frequent speaker and writer on topics related to current events in taxation and non-profit organizations. In addition to his legal practice, Josh is active in several professional and community organizations, including the New York State
Bar Association Tax Section Executive Committee, Pathstone Development Corporation, and the Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association. Josh graduated from Harvard University, cum laude, and earned his law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School. Crystal Loffler is the Vice President, State Programs for NYS Homes & Community Renewal’s Office of Community Renewal (OCR). In this role Crystal oversees OCR’s portfolio of NYS funded grant programs. These programs offer annual and competitive grants to units of local government and not-for-profit organizations that are committed to preserving affordable housing, adapting homes to create accessible units, providing emergency repair support and revitalizing historic downtowns. Prior to joining HCR in 2008, Crystal held positions in both private and public sector planning and community development organizations. Crystal has an MBA from SUNY University at Albany. Monica McCullough is the owner and founder of MM Development Advisors, Inc., a NYS Certified WBE that assists community-oriented non-profits and social service providers in the development of affordable and supportive housing. Monica is Of Counsel at the law firm Underberg & Kessler, LLP. Monica received her undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Rochester; a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University; and a Juris Doctor from the Syracuse University College of Law. Monica is a founding member of the NY Women in Real Estate Association, is the Treasurer of the Community Design Center of Rochester, and is an active resident of Rochester’s Highland Park Neighborhood. Laura Smith is an attorney in the Rochester office of Harter Secrest & Emery LLP. Laura represents businesses, developers, municipalities, and public authorities on a wide range of issues that include zoning and planning, municipal law, governance, compliance with the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act, hazardous waste and petroleum spill cleanup, brownfield development, and alternative energy. Laura served as a law clerk for the Environmental Protection Agency Region III, Office of Regional Counsel. She holds a B.A. from the College of Wooster and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. My name is Scott Zorn, I grew up in Churchville, NY and graduated from Churchville Chili High School. I attended the University of Rochester were I was a member of the men’s soccer team and earned a degree in financial economics. Shortly thereafter, I began working here at GSM for Kevin Burns. We were pioneers in the real estate crowdfunding industry, and focus on innovative energy-efficiency techniques. I briefly left to obtain my MBA in finance and real estate from SMU in Dallas. I moved back home after getting my degree, Opportunity Funds are our next big challenge.
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SUNY Modern: Politics, Planning, and Preservation
Kathy Howe | Survey and Evaluation Coordinator, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation Beth Cumming | Technical Assistance and Compliance Coordinator, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation The State University of New York was established in 1948 along with the passage of legislation banning race- and religion-based discrimination in higher education. While SUNY’s growth in the 1950s was relatively slow under Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the demand for higher education due to the impending influx of baby boomers required eventual expansion. Under Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller’s tenure from 1959 to 1973 the State University of New York (SUNY) system grew from 38,000 students and “an undistinguished jumble” of 29 schools to nearly a quarter of a million students on 64 campuses. Rockefeller regarded the massive expansion of SUNY as his crowning achievement as governor. He believed that a strong public university system signified American civilization and strength stating, “[It] is the most perfect example of vision, faith and courage on the part of a free society and free human beings.” The results of SUNY’s expansion under Rockefeller were staggering. While new buildings were added to existing teachers colleges and agricultural and technical institutes, entirely new campuses based on distinctive campus master plans sprang up at Albany, Buffalo, Purchase, Old Westbury, and elsewhere. The works of nationally significant architects were commissioned including Edward Durrell Stone, I.M. Pei, Edward Larrabee Barnes, Edgar Tafel, and Paul Rudolph. Rockefeller was an advocate for Modernism on SUNY campuses as is evident by International Style, New Formalist, and Brutalist buildings. Now that Rockefeller-era SUNY campuses and buildings are coming of age SHPO staff will discuss historical and architectural significance as well as some of the technical preservation challenges of modern materials and design. Kathy Howe is the Survey and Evaluation Coordinator at the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Division for Historic Preservation. She holds a M.A. in Architectural History and Certificate in Historic Preservation from the University of Virginia. Prior to coming to work for the SHPO she worked at Bero Architecture in Rochester and in the planning unit of the Peak National Park in the United Kingdom. As head of the Survey Unit, Ms. Howe assists communities and agencies with surveys that identify and evaluate historic districts, buildings, sites, structures and objects worthy of protection and consideration in community planning efforts. Beth Cumming is the Senior Historic Site Restoration Coordinator at the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Division for Historic Preservation. She has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters of Building Conservation from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy. Ms. Cumming’s current duties include supervision of technical reviewers of projects for the state and 18
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federal preservation laws and the state and federal rehabilitation tax credit programs. Prior to joining the state, she worked in the public sector for a Fortune 500 company, utilizing her engineering degree.
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Community, Memory and a Sense of Place
Tunya Griffin | Marketview Heights Collective Action Project Rich Holowka | Marketview Heights Collective Action Project Ann Howard, J.D. | Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology Lisa Hermsen | Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology Marketview Heights reflects Rochester’s past and present - from the wave of European immigrants in the early 1900s to the 1940s and 50s, when African American and Latino families came to the neighborhood. The once vibrant neighborhood struggles today, with 75% of the population making less than $35,000. Still ethnically and racially diverse, the area is now at the edge of a revitalizing local economy trying to navigate political debates, representation, and the fate of community redevelopment projects. Through community-based research and an electronic archive, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, faculty and students worked with community experts to trace the history of Marketview Heights. Although the neighborhood was important to the growth and development of Rochester, researchers discovered that the history of this neighborhood, especially the lives and activities of everyday residents are markedly “invisible.” Ann Howard, JD, is a professor in the department of Science, Technology, and Society in the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the founder and director of RIT’s University/Community Partnerships. Since 1997, RIT/ UCP has coordinated the activities of more than 30 faculty members and thousands of RIT students in a wide ranging number of community-based participatory projects in the City of Rochester. RIT/UCP connects faculty and students with residents and community organizations to build upon, increase and leverage the community capital of Rochester neighborhoods by creating long term, co-equal and reciprocal relationships. She is a co-principal investigator for the NEH funded project, “Community, Memory, and Sense of Place.” Dr. Hermsen is a professor of English and the Caroline Werner Gannett Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the principal investigator for the National Endowment for the Humanities funded project, “Community, Memory, and Sense of Place” , that connects students in three undergraduate courses to a community-based research project that is carried out in collaboration with resident experts from the Marketview Heights neighborhood. Tunya Griffin is a Rochester native with a track record of neighborhood activism and community service. She has lived in the Marketview Heights community for over twenty years and has been engaged in various action research projects in Marketview Heights that illuminate local debates over the meaning of
community identity and diversity amid new economic and social conditions, by interacting with business leaders, reformers and residents. In 2015, as youth director for MVH youth program, Tunya supervised a team of neighborhood youth and RIT students who oversaw the development and programming of the Marketview Heights Collective Action Project Children’s Garden. She is the Fifth Street Block Club captain. A lifelong resident of the Marketview Heights neighborhood, Richard Holowka has been involved in the community, as a professional and volunteer almost 40 years. Employed variously as a writer, researcher, owner of a boutique advertising agency and VP of Creative Services for a local health software company that successfully launched an IPO, he was a founding member of the Marketview Heights Collective Action Project. He continues to volunteer within the neighborhood, working with other residents to incorporate the Collective Action Project as 501 c 3 not-forprofit organization.
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Letchworth Gateway Villages: Leveraging heritage assets to fuel economic growth
Nicole Manapol | Director, Letchworth Gateway Villages Sandy Schneible | President LittleHive and Executive Board Chair, Perry Main Street Association (PMSA) Ken Cooper | Associate Professor of English, SUNY Geneseo and founder of the Open Valley Project Frances Gotcsik | Friends of the Genesee Valley Greenway Carl Schoenthal | Friends of the Genesee Valley Greenway Following over a decade of revitalization efforts that transformed the built environment in their historic Main Street districts, municipal and community leaders in Perry, Mount Morris, and Geneseo, NY came together in 2017 to establish the Letchworth Gateway Villages initiative, a cross-county collaboration initially formed to answer the question “what’s next for our downtowns?” The collaboration has since morphed into a broader, communitydriven placemaking effort aimed at promoting new market opportunities anchored to the region’s natural, cultural, and heritage assets. In this panel session speakers will discuss how regional approaches to creative placemaking and destination partnership development are helping transform one rural area’s preservation investments into new economic possibilities. Topics to include rural entrepreneurship, sustainable tourism development, and cross-sector collaboration. Since 2003 Nicole Manapol has worked at the intersection of international development, entrepreneurship and education designing and leading a variety of programs from small community-based projects to large-scale global initiatives. Working on behalf of the US State Department, Microsoft, USAID and the higher education sector, Nicole has lived and worked in 14 countries across Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia and the Asia-Pacific. What she loves most about her line of work is creating opportunities for people,
organizations and communities to realize their potential. Nicole is a Western NY native with an MPA from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and a BS in International Affairs from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Sandy Schneible is the President and Co-Founder of LittleHive a marketing & development agency based in Livingston County serving clients globally. Prior to establishing littleHive, Sandy Schneible served Washington Mutual, a national bank based in Seattle, WA as the VP, eCommerce Marketing for wamu.com. Outside of LittleHive Sandy devotes her time and talent as an executive board member to the Perry Main Street Association, a volunteer-led organization that provides support for a wide range of short and long term efforts including downtown events, community planning, programs, and promotional projects. In her role on PMSA, Sandy also serves as PMSA’s representative to the Letchworth Gateway Villages Advisory team. Ken Cooper received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 1993. His research is interested in the meeting point of 1970s culture and ecology. He frequently teaches the courses Filming the Seventies, Renewable Futures, Contemporary American Literature, and Bioregional Literature. He teaches a digital course through the Council of Public Liberal Arts Collegescalled Storied Landscapes: 21st-Century Nature Writing. In collaboration with Geneseo Milne library archivist Liz Argentieri, Cooper and Argentieri have introduced the Open Valley course, a digital humanities project where students examine local history and culture through a bioregional lens, often pairing with local organizations like the New Deal Art Gallery and Genesee Country Village. Frances Gotcsik has more than 30 years’ experience working with non-profits, state agencies, local governments, and community groups. Until recent retirement in 2015, she served as the Director of Programs and Policy at the Albany-based statewide nonprofit Parks & Trails New York (PTNY). During her 12 years at PTNY, Fran directed the organization’s trails-related advocacy and programs, including its study of the economic impact of the Erie Canalway Trail and Bicyclists Bring Business workshops. Prior to joining PTNY, Fran served first as local coordinator for the Genesee Valley Greenway and then as Executive Director of the Friends of the Greenway. Fran is a former president of the board of the Landmark Society of Western New York and presently serves as Chair of the board of Corn Hill Navigation and treasurer of the Friends of the Greenway. Fran received a B.S. with distinction in science education from Cornell University, an M.S. in biology from the University of Rochester, and an M.B.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology. Carl Schoenthal holds a Master’s degrees in Engineering from SUNY Buffalo and Management from Roberts Wesleyan College, and has studied architecture, community planning and photogrammetry. In 2015, he was elected to the Wheatland Town Council and in 2019 as a director for the Friends of the Genesee Valley Greenway, and is now leading the Greenway’s Trail Town initiative. Professionally, Carl is a licensed engineer in 14 states and the Director for Professional Practice at Eagleview (formerly Pictometry), responsible for digital aerial imagery and mapping projects across North America. He has a passion for community 2019 NY Statewide Preservation Conference
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revitalization and assembled a diverse team to draft concepts for Medina Market Square, a proposed mixed-use redevelopment effort including community gathering spaces, farmers’ market and live-work neighborhood. Over his 20+ year career he has managed engineering projects for both small municipalities and private development clients here in WNY and Austin, TX. In addition to civic and professional activities, he also operates two small businesses in Scottsville, New York along with his wife and four children and is proud to be a life-long resident of WNY.
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Financing Preservation Projects: An InDepth Look at Resources in NYS (Part 2 of 2)
Josh Gewolb | Harter Secrest & Emery LLP Crystal Loffler, NYS Homes & Community Renewal Monica McCullough | MM Development Advisors Laura Smith | Harter Secrest & Emery LLP Scott Zorn | Grove St Management This two-part session will provide an in-depth look at New York State and federal programs that can be used to help finance preservation projects in your community, many of which can leverage historic tax credit equity. Learn how sources like Low Income Housing Tax Credits, the Community Investment Fund, Brownfield Tax Credits, Restore NY, Downtown Revitalization Initiative, Opportunity Zones, and other programs have financed preservation projects throughout New York State. Case studies will be used to explore detailed financing models from projects actively under development. Hear from professionals who work with these programs at many different levels including attorneys, development consultants, and representatives of NYS agencies. See page 17 for speaker information.
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Historic Preservation Rehabilitation of Carolyn’s House, a Transitional Home for Homeless Women and their Children
Tom Yots | Director of Municipal Services, Preservation Studios George Hezel | Clinical Professor Emeritus of Law and Founder of the Affordable Housing Clinic University at Buffalo School of Law J Suzan Ben | Director, Carolyn’s House, YWCA of the Niagara Frontier Carolyn’s House is a transitional home and job training center run by the YWCA of the Niagara Frontier for homeless women and children from Niagara and Erie counties. The historic preservation adaptation of the former St. Mary’s Hospital Diploma School and Nurse’s Residence helped remove blight in the Sixth St. neighborhood of Niagara Falls. Several revitalization projects followed in the years after the 2005 project completion. Built in 1927 as the Diploma School of Nursing, it was later a dormitory and then a seminary associated with Niagara University, closing in 1987. Abandoned for 17 years, it was heavily damaged by water infiltration and vandalism. The neighboring hospital also closed during this period leaving two large, vacant, un-maintained buildings on a city block. The project is an example of creative funding for a non-profit, including using historic tax credits. The historic rehabilitation of Carolyn’s House is a reminder to all of us that historic preservation can and does serve all members of our communities and revitalizes our neighborhoods while raising the quality of life for the residents. Tom Yots has enjoyed a long career in historic preservation. Mr. Yots established Preservation Studios in 2002 after completing his Master’s Degree in Architecture from the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning. He is currently serving as the firm’s Director of Municipal Services. He has been actively involved in his local preservation community as both a concerned citizen and preservation consultant. In 2012 he left Preservation Studios to serve as Executive Director of Preservation Buffalo Niagara. Mr. Yots was a founder of the 1500 member notfor-profit and served on its Board of Trustees and Executive Committee from the beginning of the organization in 2008. He retired from Preservation Buffalo Niagara in 2014. In 2013 he was appointed as a commissioner of the Niagara Frontier State Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation Commission and served in that position until 2015. Prior to his work with Preservation Studios, Mr. Yots enjoyed a long, fulfilling career as a High School chemistry teacher in the Lewiston Porter School District. George Hezel founded the Affordable Housing Clinic at the UB Law School in 1987 and has directed the Clinic since its founding. Collaborating with not-for-profit community-based organizations, the Clinic has produced more than 2,000 units of affordable housing, leveraging more than $213 million in federal, state and local government funds as well as equity raised through the sale of low income housing tax credits. Hezel has received a variety of awards, including among others, the Caritas Medal from Niagara University, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the UB Law School, and the Community Partners Award from the University at Buffalo. Apart from his teaching at the UB Law School, Hezel has also served as a faculty advisor to the American 2019 NY Statewide Preservation Conference
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Bar Association Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law. Hezel published articles on subjects ranging from real property tax assessment practice to community development law. J Suzan Ben is the Director of Carolyn’s House, a program of the YWCA of the Niagara Frontier. Carolyn’s House is a 19-apartment transitional home and job training center for homeless women and their children. The program addresses the needs of the homeless and imminent homeless population in the area. It has served nearly 600 women and children since opening in 2005. In her position at Carolyn’s House she oversees the daily operation and community awareness and participation for the facility. In addition she managed a $350,000 social enterprise of the program, The Catering Crew and realized a credit bearing culinary program in affiliation with Niagara County Community College. She is also the Facilities’ Manager for the YWCA real estate properties in Lockport, Niagara Falls and North Tonawanda, NY. Prior to her work at Carolyn’s House Ms. Ben was an Interior Designer, performing commercial and residential design and space planning.
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Shaking Up Preservation
Carlton Hall | Cultural Preservation Specialist & Historian, Delaware State Historic Preservation Office Sarah Marsom | Heritage Resource Consultant Zulmilena Then | Founder, Preserving East New York Moderated by Caitlin Meives, Preservation Planner, The Landmark Society of WNY and President, Young Urban Preservationists In 2018, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced their inaugural list of 40 Under 40: People Saving Places, which honored 40 individuals under 40 who they consider to be “movers and shakers” in the preservation industry. Hear from 3 honoreesCarlton Hall, Sarah Marsom, and Zulmilena Then on their efforts to make a significant impact in preservation. Hall will delve into his work for the Delaware SHPO as the cultural preservation specialist and historian and efforts to research and educate on the Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans. Marsom specializes in creative interpretation strategies. She will illuminate on tactics to connect to K-12 students and the under-40 crowd. Then launched the grassroots advocacy group Preserving East New York (PENY) in 2015. Learn how she has grown a preservation movement in a neighborhood previously ignored by historians and successfully saved structures. Carlton Hall is a cultural preservation specialist and historian for the Delaware State Historic Preservation Office in Dover, Delaware. In 2015, he conducted scholarly research and gave presentations on Delaware listings in the Green Book, which is a travel guide created by Victor Green in 1936 for African Americans during segregation. Hall graduated from Delaware State University in 2013 with a Master’s in Historic Preservation. In his spare time, this Civil War and African American history 22
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enthusiast enjoys exercising, traveling and learning to speak French. Sarah Marsom is a heritage resource consultant based in Ohio. Through the creation of Young Ohio Preservationists in 2014, Marsom helped start a statewide initiative to embolden young adults to protect the past. With other leaders from young preservationist groups around the region, Sarah co-founded the Rust Belt Coalition of Young Preservationists in 2016, to create educational opportunities for emerging community leaders in the region. Her efforts to highlight hidden histories led to the development of the Tiny Activist Project(TAP). TAP spreads awareness of lesser known histories through hand sewn dolls and workshops that fuse art and history. Zulmilena Then grew up in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.. She works for the architecture firm Michael Ivanhoe McCaw Architect, P.C. In 2015, her love for historic buildings and community inspired her to form Preserving East New York (PENY), an initiative advocating for the preservation of historic buildings within East New York, the first community affected by the city’s major rezoning plan, a plan with impending consequences on the physical landscape of the neighborhood. Caitlin Meives is the Preservation Planner on staff at The Landmark Society of Western New York, a regional not-for-profit historic preservation organization based in Rochester and serving a nine county area in western New York. Caitlin holds a M.S. in historic preservation from the University of Vermont and B.A. in history and Spanish from the University of Rochester. Prior to her employment at The Landmark Society in 2010, she served as the Survey Coordinator at the Kansas State Historic Preservation Office. In her position at The Landmark Society, Caitlin works directly with municipal officials, developers, neighborhood and community advocates, and property owners of all types to assist in the rehabilitation and revitalization of historic buildings, structures, landscapes, and communities. She is also the cofounder and President of the Young Urban Preservationists.
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Asbestos: The best building material ever. Now what?
Kevin Hutton | Business Development Manager, Rochester Colonial Manufacturing Corp/Heartwood Fine Windows and Doors Asbestos, it’s everywhere! People think about insulation, but did you know it’s in windows, doors, siding, caulk, glazing, mastic, joint compound, flooring, and even in paint. Why asbestos was used, what products used it, and how dangerous it can be will be explained during this session. The steps we must take during a preservation project are complicated. Understanding the complexities of rules and regulations regarding asbestos are confusing at best. This presentation will discuss what NYSDOL, EPA, and OSHA say you MUST do and the reality of what you can do with regards to your preservation project. Kevin Hutton is with Rochester Colonial Manufacturing Corp. and Heartwood Fine Windows and Doors. He is uncomfortable
being called an asbestos expert, yet acknowledges he is called when others can’t figure it out. He is energetic and passionate about sharing his knowledge of asbestos rules and regulations to keep you safe and out of jail. He is an EPA/NYS DOH authorized asbestos trainer. He relates 20 plus years of construction experience while training A&E’s to abatement workers. While on the board of Professional Abatement Contractors of NY (PACNY) he worked with NYSDOL to change CR56, developed initiatives to accelerate variances, and has been the primary presenter at PACNY’s Annual Proficiency Day. Kevin holds a Bachelor and Master degree in Construction Management from SUNY ESF.
LUNCH & NETWORKING
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Sibley Square, 2nd floor (use 260 E. Main St. entrance)
Grab lunch and find a spot to munch & mingle!
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Climate Change, Renewable Energy, and Historic Preservation
J. Jeffrey Anzevino, AICP | Director of Land Use Advocacy, Scenic Hudson Ellen Pope | Executive Director, Otsego 2000 Erin Tobin | Vice President for Policy & Preservation, Preservation League of New York State Historic preservation must respond to increasing climate change impacts on our built environment, including storm damage and rising sea levels. In response to climate change concerns, many have sought mitigation against future impacts through renewable energy. Governor Cuomo has mandated that 50% of New York State’s electricity must come from renewable sources by 2030. In response to this and increasing renewable energy incentives and technological advances, installations such as solar fields and wind farms have grown in size and number. While preservation seeks to limit climate change, we also have our own mandate to mitigate historic and cultural impacts of projects with state and/or federal funding, licensing, and permitting, according to the Federal & NYS Historic Preservation Acts. Preservation advocates seek a happy medium where renewable energy and historic/cultural landscapes can exist in harmony. Jeffrey Anzevino, AICP, is Director of Land Use Advocacy at Scenic Hudson where he helps communities ensure that development connects people with the river, conserves views and natural resources, respects historic resources and stimulates the economy. Jeff is co-author of Revitalizing Hudson Riverfronts (2010), which won a US Environmental Protection Agency
Region 2 Environmental Quality Award in 2013. Mr. Anzevino is also an adjunct instructor at Marist College’s Department of Environmental Science and Policy where he has taught a seniorlevel course in Environmental Planning since 2011. Previously, Mr. Anzevino was a planner for the City of Cape Coral, Florida, where he drafted the city’s historic preservation ordinance and authored the Community Facilities Element of the city’s Comprehensive Plan. Mr. Anzevino is a cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, with a B.A. in Geography (1985). Ellen Pope is executive director of Otsego 2000, a small non-profit dedicated to preserving the historical, cultural, agricultural, and environmental assets of the Otsego Lake region surrounding Cooperstown, New York. She is responsible for the overall management and direction of the organization and its programs including efforts to protect the region from shale gas extraction and other industrial threats, preserve its rich historical buildings, hamlets and landscapes, and promote local sustainability primarily through the Cooperstown Farmers’ Market and other economic development initiatives like the Film Days. Prior to joining Otsego 2000, she spent 17 years in transatlantic exchange and policy, at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where she managed the Marshall Memorial Fellowship leadership program for seven years before launching the Comparative Domestic Policy program, a major initiative focused on transatlantic exchange of best practices in urban and regional policy, and as program officer at the French-American Foundation prior to the German Marshall Fund. She is a graduate of Wellesley College. Erin Tobin serves as the Preservation League’s Vice President for Policy and Preservation and has been with the League since 2007. Erin directs all aspects of the League’s Public Policy and Technical Services Programs. She works collaboratively to set and pursue a statewide policy agenda that advances historic preservation in New York State at the federal, state, and local levels. Erin also oversees the League’s Technical Services and preservation grants programs. Erin has held positions with the Massachusetts Historical Commission, New York Landmarks Conservancy, and Historic Albany Foundation. She serves on the City of Albany Historic Resources Commission, appointed in August 2018. She lives in the city of Albany with her husband and three children.
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James Johnson, Rochester’s Mid-Century Maverick: Documenting the Architecture of the Recent Past
Christopher Brandt | Bero Architecture, PLLC Katie Eggers Comeau | Bero Architecture, PLLC James H. Johnson, Rochester’s most imaginative mid-20th-century architect, was responsible for the renowned “Mushroom House” and other unusual buildings, but his work was largely unknown and unprotected, as became obvious when one of his most important buildings was demolished in 2012. Granted the rare and exciting opportunity to document Johnson’s career, our team spent a year 2019 NY Statewide Preservation Conference
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and a half reviewing original drawings, interviewing colleagues, sorting through original slides and clippings, and visiting strange and marvelous buildings to try to fit this audaciously innovative career into the confines of a National Register Multiple Property Documentation Form. We’ll describe the benefits of the MDPF format for analysis and advocacy purposes, how we evaluated this unusual “recent past” career, and lessons we learned, all illustrated with original and recent photographs representing Johnson’s stunning, and largely unknown, body of work. Christopher Brandt is an architect at Bero Architecture, a firm with a legacy of over forty years of historic preservation practice. He was born and raised in the Rochester region and has been active in its historic preservation community since high school. Chris received a BS in Architecture from the University at Buffalo, and a M-Arch with a certificate in Historic Preservation from the University of Virginia. Outside of his day job restoring and adapting old buildings, he serves as the Advocacy and Education Coordinator of the Young Urban Preservationists, obsessive compulsively researches local history, and is DIY-restoring the small historic home he shares with his wife. Katie Eggers Comeau is the architectural historian at Bero Architecture. She assists clients throughout western New York with historic resource surveys, National Register nominations, and tax credit applications. A native of the Rochester area, she previously worked at a preservation consulting firm in Washington, D.C., and at the Landmark Society of Western New York. She is also a trustee of the National Association for Olmsted Parks and frequently gives presentations on Rochester’s Olmsted legacy.
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Sacred spaces: Laying foundations for communities
Dirk Schneider, AIA | Architect, Partner, CJS Architects Rev. James. H. Adams | St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Sharon Arthur | St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Christiana Limniatis | Director of Preservation Services, Preservation Buffalo Niagara Courtney Creenan-Chorley, AIA | Project Architect, CJS Architects This presentation will highlight how St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Geneva is using their buildings for more than just church services and how they have found ways to be a partner in their neighborhood and community. The congregation has positioned itself as an anchor in the center of Geneva, serving not only their parishioners but also their neighbors, becoming an asset for all. Community programs include: Neighbors’ Night, St. Peter’s Community Arts Academy, Lake Delaware Boys Camp, Food Pantry, and Cooking Matters. This session will also explore funding sources for historic houses of worship, with a focus on the ongoing capital campaign at St. Peter’s.
preservation of several buildings in Lyons, NY and in 2004, Mr. Schneider was leading a colloquium with Edgar Tafel and Edmund Meade, describing the condition and solution for the Graycliff Estate a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home. Mr. Schneider serves currently as the chairperson for Design Review & Historic Preservation Board for the Town of Pittsford. Courtney Creenan-Chorley is a Project Architect registered in New York State with 8 years of experience. She is experienced leading multi-disciplined design teams on projects of national historic significance as well as higher education, including the rehabilitation of the Richardson Olmsted Campus into Hotel Henry. Past projects have won local, state and national design, planning and preservation awards and have been published nationally. Her involvement in the preservation community includes assisting in the planning of the 50th Association for Preservation Technology Conference, held in Buffalo, NY in fall 2018. She is the current President of the Buffalo Architecture Foundation and has served on its board since 2014. She is CJS’s Project Architect for the St. Peter’s Episcopal Church renovation and addition. The Reverend James H. Adams has been the Rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Geneva, NY since 1981. In 1986, Rev. Adams led a project to completely restore the interior of the church to its original 1868 design of Richard Upjohn. Upjohn’s plans, designs and decoration instructions for St. Peter’s Church are kept at the Avery Library of Architecture, Columbia University. St. Peter’s Church is a center of vital programs which serve the wider community, particularly the downtown neighborhood of Geneva, where it is located. In 2005, Rev. Adams and St. Peter’s Church founded St. Peter’s Community Arts Academy, which shares the church buildings with the congregation. The Arts Academy, whose mission is: “Arts for All”, is currently engaged in a Capital Campaign which will restore all of its historic buildings making them ADA compliant, including converting the historic former Rectory to become a School for the Arts. Rev. Adams is committed to the synergy between the church and the community. Sharon Arthur has thirty years of experience in various aspects of accounting, finance, fundraising and stewardship practices. Sharon currently holds the position as Capital Campaign Manager for St. Peter’s Community Spirit and Arts Campaign with the mission of “Arts for All” and a financial goal to raise $4m through lead gifts, grants, funding from historic tax credits and general donations. She also serves as the Chair of the Stewardship Commission for the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, NY and is stewardship chair for her own parish, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Geneva, NY. Sharon is active in her community and serves on various Boards and Committees which includes Geneva Music Festival, Boys & Girls Club and LifeResults. Her life purpose is inspiring joyful generosity. See page 28 for Christiana Limniatis bio.
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Preserving Tangible and Intangible Heritage: Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass as a Case Study
area. He is the creative force behind dozens of art murals and interactive projects in Rochester. You can find examples of his work online: http://www.dunwoode.design.
Michelle Furlano | University of Rochester Hinda Mandell | Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Communication Shawn Dunwoody | DUNWOODĒ Visual Consulting Autumn Haag | University of Rochester, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation Juilee Decker | Rochester Institute of Technology, Museum Studies Program
Autumn Haag is Special Collections Librarian/Archivist for Research & Collections in the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation at the University of Rochester where she is the curator of the Frederick Douglass Papers. She has a Masters degree in Information Studies from the University of Toronto. She co-authored the book chapter “Using BEAM to Integrate Information Literacy and Writing: A Framework With Cases” from the Purdue Information Literacy Handbook, Vol 2., forthcoming from Purdue University Press.
This session considers preservation as related to the life, legacy, and memorialization of Frederick and Anna Douglass in Rochester. To begin, Michelle Furlano addresses the history of Stanley Edwards’ statue of Frederick Douglass which was installed near the Rochester railway station in 1899. Hinda Mandell tells the story of the Douglass’s first Rochester home on Alexander St., its tensions and its lifeblood where from 1848-1851 the Douglasses devoted their lives to the abolishment of slavery. Artist Shawn Dunwoody, creative producer of a historic “art marker” to honor the legacy of Anna Murray Douglass, describes his role in preservation through public art interventions. Autumn Haag defines the ways in which archives, specifically Douglass-related materials at UR, inform other actions of preservation. Finally, Juilee Decker tells how tangible and intangible heritage have become increasingly relevant in the age of #TakeItDown.
Juilee Decker, Ph.D. is an associate professor of museum studies at Rochester Institute of Technology. She earned her Ph.D. from the joint program in Art History and Museum Studies at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Decker serves as a juror for the Education Committee of the American Alliance of Museums and is a past board member of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House. Since 2008, Decker has published widely in the field of museums and archives, most recently her revision to Museums in Motion (2017, AASLH/R&L). In her research and practice, she seeks ways to facilitate dialogues between communities and the objects, spaces, places, and practices that they hold dear. Reflecting her interests in public art, commemoration, and memory, Decker has lectured on monuments and memory. Her monograph on Kentucky-born sculptor Enid Yandell (1869-1934) is forthcoming.
Michelle Furlano is a Ph.D. history candidate at the University of Rochester. After completing her M.A. in History at the University of Toronto, she worked for six years in the Heritage and Museum sector. She is currently co-manager of the Seward Family Digital Archive, at UR. Her most recent work includes writing and copyediting for the forthcoming “Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the U.S,” and consulting for the “Remembering Lewis Henry Morgan” exhibit at the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County. Her most recent paper presentation was, “Feminism in the Forties: The Founding of the Susan B. Anthony Museum & House.” Her dissertation research focuses on gender, race, commemoration, and historic sites and monuments in 20th century America. Hinda Mandell is associate professor in the School of Communication at RIT in New York, and is a co-editor of Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election (University of Rochester Press, 2018); the author of Sex Scandals, Gender and Power in Contemporary American Politics (Praeger, 2017) and co-editor of Scandal in a Digital Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is under contract (with Rowman & Littlefield) as editor of the book Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats. She is co-curating the “Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism,” to open in August 2019 at the Central Branch of the Rochester Public Library, and co-editing an eponymous book. She’s on Twitter: @crochetactivism. Shawn Dunwoody is a multidisciplinary catalyst for change, creating art through community partnerships in the Rochester 26
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Making Sense of SEQRA: Recent Amendments and Their Impacts on Municipal Review of Historic and Cultural Resources
Mindy L. Zoghlin, Esq. | The Zoghlin Group, PLLC Frances M. Kabat | The Zoghlin Group, PLLC Under SEQRA, municipalities must review impacts to historic and cultural resources when deciding to approve, fund, or undertake an action. Effective January 2019, municipalities must evaluate the impacts of actions located near sites eligible for listing on the State Register of Historic Places. The previous rule only required municipalities to consider the impacts of actions located near sites listed on the National or State Historic Register (or proposed for inclusion on the National Register). Because many structures in the state are more than fifty years old and meet one or more of the Historic Preservation Act’s eligibility criteria, the SEQRA amendments may increase the likelihood
that an action will receive a positive declaration of environmental significance and require additional municipal review. This may expand opportunities to protect vital, unlisted historic and cultural resources located in lower income neighborhoods. Mindy founded The Zoghlin Group, PLLC in 2016. She previously practiced with a Rochester law firm and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources. Mindy represents individuals, small businesses, developers, citizens’ groups, and municipalities in a wide range of environmental and land use matters including toxic tort and property damage cases, Article 78 proceedings, and zoning and regulatory permitting proceedings. She also has substantial experience in a variety of other personal and commercial civil cases. Mindy’s practice includes litigating in state and federal courts and counseling clients on ways to minimize and/or avoid litigation risks. In 2018 she received The Daily Record’s Excellence in Law/Top Women in Law award. Frances is an Associate Attorney with the Zoghlin Group. She focuses primarily on environmental, municipal, and land use litigation and represents individuals, businesses, municipalities and community groups before New York State courts and municipal boards. Prior to joining the Zoghlin Group, Frances worked at Rochester’s Cornerstone Group, Ltd., a real estate developer focusing on affordable housing development in Western New York and the Finger Lakes. Frances also worked for over three years as an associate attorney at a large Western New York law firm where she represented lenders and services throughout New York State. Frances is a 2017 recipient of the Monroe County Bar Association’s Raymond J. Pauley Award.
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Rochester’s LGBTQ Landmarks: 50 Years After Stonewall
Evelyn Bailey | Historian, Out Alliance Carol Ebersol-Weiss | Human Rights Campaign Larry Francer | Associate Director of Preservation, Landmark Society of WNY Christine Ridarsky | City Historian and Historical Services Consultant, Rochester Public Library, City of Rochester, NY In 2019 we will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall, the identified event that marks the beginning of the modern Gay Rights movement in the United States, with an exhibit at the Rochester Public Library. Even before the Stonewall Riots, Rochester’s diverse LGBTQ community was at the forefront - making history by championing the cause of equality and freedom for all. It has stood side by side with the many pioneers who fought for civil rights throughout Rochester and the world. Rochester is a city that celebrates diversity and has often set benchmarks for civil liberties throughout the nation. This session will share the course and strategies of local organizations and the city of Rochester in exposing, saving, and celebrating Rochester’s LGBTQ historic sites and history.
Archivist for LGBTQ community of Rochester. Evelyn is Chair of the Shoulders to Stand On Program, the historic documentation and preservation program of the Out Alliance. She is the recipient of the 2016 Debra E. Bernhardt Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Documenting New York’s History. Carol Ebersol-Weiss is a member of the Human Rights Campaign, and is currently a member of HRC’s National Board of Governors, Greater NY Steering Committee, Western NY Coordinator. Carol has been involved in civil rights and social action work for 10 years, and currently is the organizer for the 2nd Thursday HRC Networking Event. Larry Francer joined the Landmark Society as the Associate Director of Preservation in September of 2012 with 20 years of preservation experience, much in small towns and villages. Grass roots preservationist, courthouse activist, business owner, religious leader, Zumba enthusiast, filmmaker and actor, Larry Francer is a true renaissance man. Christine L. Ridarsky is Historian for the City of Rochester and manager of the Local History & Genealogy Division of the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County. She is coordinator and chief curator of an exhibit at the library March 1 - July 12, 2019, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the uprising at the Stonewall Inn and exploring the history of LGBTQ+ life and activism in Rochester. Ridarsky has a M.A. in History from the State University of New York, College at Brockport, and has completed coursework toward a PhD in American History at the University of Rochester.
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Building & Restoring Communities through Real Estate Impact Investing
John Delia | Founder & CEO, Housing Joint Venture Around the country, previously vibrant communities have fallen into disrepair and neglect. Beautiful buildings that once shone as stalwarts in a community are merely shadows of their former glory. Housing Joint Venture is leveraging historic preservation as a key tool to renovate historic buildings and repurpose them for new, modern uses that allow them to serve as dynamic epicenters once again. This talk will highlight the revitalization plans for the Holy Rosary Campus in Central Ohio. John Delia is a prolific real estate investor, entrepreneur and author. He specializes in repositioning value-added properties in inner cities across the American Midwest. An expert deal maker and strategist, he began his career in real estate at age 18. He is the author of Life, Liberty n’ Property: A Guide to Successful Real Estate Investing. John actively manages a portfolio that houses residents from 4 continents and is valued in excess of $1.5 million. He resides in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife Richelle and their miniature Goldendoodle puppy.
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Certified Local Historic District: Where protection meets financial incentives
Kelly Carroll | Director of Advocacy and Community Outreach, Historic Districts Council Linda Mackey | Historic Preservation Specialist / Survey and Certified Local Government Program (CLG) Unit, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation Christiana Limniatis | Director of Preservation Services, Preservation Buffalo Niagara Certified Local Districts (CLD) are locally designated historic districts that have been deemed by the Secretary of the Interior as effectively meeting all requirements for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, but without actually listing them on the National Register. Through the certification process, contributing depreciable properties within the district may pursue state and federal historic tax credits which they would otherwise not have access to. Panelists including Christiana Limniatis of Preservation Buffalo Niagara, Kelly Carroll of Historic Districts Council, and Linda Mackey of NYSOPRHP will review the process of and highlight recent efforts to protect endangered neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Buffalo, and Schenectady, and to provide access to much needed financial incentives through the establishment of Certified Local Districts. Kelly Carroll is the Director of Advocacy and Community Outreach at the Historic Districts Council, a non-profit preservation organization based in NYC. She facilitates neighborhood and citywide preservation campaigns and composes testimony to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which is regularly published in NYC’s real estate media coverage. Kelly earned a B.A. in history from UNC Asheville in 2008, then attended Columbia University, earning a M.S. in Historic Preservation in 2012. A portion of Ms. Carroll’s graduate thesis was published as a book, We See What We Want to See, in 2018. Kelly grew up in Buffalo, New York, a city whose history, architecture and neighborhoods inspired her to pursue her career in preservation. Linda Mackey works as a Historic Preservation Specialist in the Survey and Certified Local Government Program (CLG) Unit for the SHPO. She holds a BA in Anthropology from the University at Buffalo, and a MS in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her employment with SHPO, she worked in the private sector as an architectural historian conducting large-scale surveys and assisting federal agencies in fulfilling their duties under Section 106. At SHPO, Linda is responsible for overseeing the statewide inventory of historic resources in the Capital Region, New York City, and Long Island, preparing determinations of eligibility, and assisting communities with surveys to identify and evaluate historic resources worthy of protection. Additionally, she works with the CLG Coordinator to provide training and support to municipalities formally designated as CLGs by the National Park Service.
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Christiana Limniatis is the Director of Preservation Services at Preservation Buffalo Niagara (PBN), in Buffalo NY. At PBN, Christiana oversees all technical and community services which work to expand and strengthen the reach of preservation education and best practices in Western New York. Originally from Albany, NY, Christiana began her preservation career at Historic Albany Foundation and has also worked as a preservation consultant in Louisiana and Tennessee. Christiana holds a BA in History/Political Science from The College of Saint Rose and completed her coursework towards an MA in Historic Preservation Planning at Cornell University.
Preservation Partners Party 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Reception immediately following the Keynote in the grand Atrium of the NYS Education Building. Follow Conference volunteers for direction. Sponsored by
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A New Blueprint: Discussing the Importance of Diversity in Preservation Lee Bey | Architectural photographer, writer, and lecturer Lee Bey is a photographer, writer, lecturer and consultant whose work deals in the documentation and interpretation of the built environment—and the often complex political, social and racial forces that shape spaces and places. His architectural photography has appeared in magazines such as Chicago Architect, Architect, Old House Journal, CITE, and in international design publications such as Bauwelt, and Modulør, both published in Germany. A former Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic, Bey’s writing and reporting on architecture and urban design have been featured in Architect, Chicago magazine, Architectural Record, the Houston Chronicle, Crain’s Chicago Business, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, Fox News Chicago, Guardian Cities, Monocle Radio, and CBS2 News Chicago. Bey is also a sought-after expert on architecture, architectural history and the development of cities. He has been interviewed by a range of media outlets on the subject, including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, CityLab, WTTW Chicago Public Television, WGN-TV, Echappees Belles, an international travel show on TV5MONDE Europe, and That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles, produced by KCET-TV in Los Angeles. He has lectured before audiences at the University of Hamburg, University of Michigan, City Club of Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the Arts Club of Chicago, Palm Springs’ Modernism Week, and more. Bey is the author of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side (Northwestern University Press, Fall 2019). The book expands on the places and themes of his 2017 photo exhibition, Chicago: a Southern Exposure, documented the rich and largely ignored architecture of
Lee Bey Architectural photographer, writer, & lecturer the South Side. The show was created for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Bey’s photography was the subject of a year-long show in 2011, Chicago Then and Now: A Story by Lee Bey, at Chicago’s City Gallery at the historic Water Tower. His photographs of farm workers’ housing in Alamosa, CO and Chicago’s Archer Courts apartments were featured in the museum exhibit Wohnmodelle: Experiment und Alltag, which debuted in 2008 in Austria’s Kunstlerhaus. Bey, a senior lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, also served as deputy chief of staff for urban planning under former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley. He was also governmental affairs director for the Chicago office of the architecture firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill. Bey was also executive director of the Chicago Central Area Committee. Chicago public television station WTTW in 2014 called Bey “one of Chicago’s keenest observers of architecture and urban planning.”
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Preservation Partners Party
6:30 - 9:30 PM Sibley Square,
2nd floor (use 260 E. Main St. entrance) This year’s Preservation Partners Party will also feature the Preservation League of New York State’s Seven to Save exhibit, Hidden in Plain Sight. This opening night reception is sponsored by Michel and Caroline Rob Zaleski. The exhibit is sponsored by the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor with co-sponsors Consigli Construction Co., Inc.; Gray Slate Partners LLC of Troy; PBDW Architects; Matthew Bender; and Phoebe Powell Bender; with additional support from Rev. Dr. Thomas M. Pike, and Caroline and Michel Zaleski.
Manchester Roundhouse in Ontario County. One of the Seven to Save properties featured in the Preservation League’s Hidden in Plain Sight exhibit, by photographer Bruce Harvey. View this and other Seven to Save images during the Preservation Partners Party. Image courtesy Preservation League of NYS.
Party and exhibit reception immediately following the Keynote. Enjoy comfort food and bar snacks from Marshall Street Bar & Grill, local craft beer from Fifth Frame Brewing, and wine from Constellation Brands.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 27TH Facilitated Conversation on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in Historic Preservation Sibley Square, 2nd floor (use 260 E. Main St. entrance) Coffee and breakfast pastries available starting at 9:00 AM. 9:30 - 10:30 AM Panel discussion facilitated by Calvin Eaton | Founder & Executive Director, 540WMain Communiversity Dr. Georgette Grier-Key | Executive Director, Eastville Community Historical Society; Professor, SUNY Nassau Community College Carlton Hall | Cultural Preservation Specialist & Historian Sarah Marsom | Heritage Resource Consultant Calvin Eaton aka theglutenfreechef (www.theglutenfreechefblog. com) is a digital content creator, social entrepreneur, and educator whose area of expertise includes antiracism, diversity, inclusion, K-12 curriculum writing and teaching, gluten free plant based living, and higher education. In 2016 he founded 540WMain Communiversity a grassroots non-profit community based university. (www.540westmain.org) with a commitment to enrich the Susan B. Anthony Preservation district as well as connect greater Rochester to the neighborhood through historic preservation, sustainability, workforce development, and antiracism education.
FIELD SESSIONS 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
2 AIA CES LUs Field Session 1 Rochester’s Beechwood Neighborhood & City Roots Community Land Trus Joe DiFiore | City Roots Community Land Trust Matthew Smith | Artist & resident Explore the Beechwood neighborhood and learn how its residents are harnessing the power of grassroots advocacy to reclaim vacant properties, remake their streets, and provide a safe and affordable neighborhood for residents of all socioeconomic backgrounds. Established in 2016, the City Roots Community Land Trust’s mission is to permanently preserve affordability in Rochester, New York through community owned and managed land, to empower neighbors, and to bridge socioeconomic divisions in order to secure development without displacement. Meet outside New City Cafe, 441 Parsells Ave., corner of Parsells Ave. and Greeley St.
Dr. Grier-Key is currently the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Eastville Community Historical Society of Sag Harbor, New York, and consulting historian for various municipalities and projects, the Vice President of the Association of Suffolk County Historical Societies, Founding member of the Pyrrhus Concer Action Committee (PCAC) and the PCAC organizer, and Cultural Partner for Sylvester Manor of Shelter Island, New York. Dr. Grier-Key is also an adjunct history and political science professor and Nassau Community College. She has been a guest curator at various outlets, namely Drowned Meadow Cottage Museum, the Sara Nightingale Gallery of Watermill, New York and the Suffolk County Historical Society of Riverhead, New York. See page 22 for Carlton Hall and Sarah Marsom bios.
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Field Session 3
Rochester’s Public Market
Restoring a Mid-Century Modern Landscape: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park at Manhattan Square
Evan Lowenstein | City of Rochester Public Market The City of Rochester Public Market has been a hub of commerce, culture and community at its North Union Street site near downtown since 1905. This year-round indooroutdoor municipally-run Market offers a huge volume and variety of products, and the most diverse gathering that can be found in Greater Rochester. Visitors on spring, summer, and fall Saturdays can find over 300 vendor stalls packed with local, national and international produce; meat, seafood, poultry; cheeses and dairy; baked goods; ethnic and specialty foods; beverages; prepared foods galore; and general merchandise such as clothing, jewelry, arts and crafts. Saturday attendance during the busiest months often tops 25,000. Market shoppers can also find community organizations tabling, buskers, nutritious cooking demos and samplings, and much more within its iconic gateway arches. The Market makes its classic public space further available to the community with another 45-50 days open each year for free-admission special events, such as Community Garage Sales, Flower City Days horticultural sales, Food Truck Rodeos, Bands on the Bricks, Halloween and Holidays at the Market, and more. While exploring the Market, Conference attendees can also take in the historic structures and elements of the Market, along with the newer. In 2017, the Market completed an $8.5 million renovation and expansion project, which included the full replacement of the indoor vendor shed with a state-of-the-art facility carefully designed to fit into the historic Market landscape, and a new covered outdoor vendor shed “D” that’s a near perfect replica of a 1904 original that was demolished in 1963. See Program insert for information on the meeting location, transportation, and parking for this field session.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park at Manhattan Square is a mid-century modern landscape, designed by Lawrence Halprin and built as designed in 1972 as the first phase of development of the Southeast Loop Urban Renewal Plan, in downtown Rochester. The park was the centerpiece of the Plan, an open space surrounded by largely unrealized high-density development. The field session will include a guided walking tour of the multilevel design, which includes five integral buildings, a skating rink/ reflecting pool, a playground, a playfield, a pedestrian tunnel under Chestnut Street and an amphitheater with a waterfall fountain and an overhead space frame, with special attention to extant elements of the original design, the City’s 2000 Master Plan for rehabilitation, and the results of five phases of capital improvements. The park is noteworthy not only as a modernist gem of landscape architecture, but as an important venue for special events and an amenity for downtown residents and visitors. Meet at the corner of Chestnut and Court Streets. JoAnn Beck is a Landscape Architect, with 35 years of professional experience in academic, private and public practice. She retired after twenty years as the Senior Landscape Architect with the City of Rochester, having administered the design of capital improvement projects including: the rehabilitation of Martin Luther King Memorial Park, The El Camino Trail, Lower Falls Park and the Genesee Riverway Trail at Turning Point Park. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Landmark Society of Western New York, as Chair of the Olmsted Parks Alliance and President of the Highland Park Conservancy.
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Conference Locations Our Lady of Victory/ St. Joseph Grace Road Church
Mortimer Street Parking Garage
Sibley Square
Hilton Garden Inn Rochester Downtown Bar Bantam South Avenue Parking Garage
Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Park at Manhattan Square
THURSDAY, APRIL 25TH Opening Night Meet & Greet Bar Bantam Chase Tower, S Clinton Ave, Rochester, NY 14604
Registration, Breakout Sessions, Lunch & Preservation Partners Party Sibley Square
Conference Hotel Hilton Garden Inn Rochester Downtown
Welcome & Keynote Grace Road Church
155 E Main St, Rochester, NY 14604
Pre-Conference Workshops & Tour 2, 4 Sibley Square 260 E Main St, Rochester, NY 14604
Tour 1 Rochester Colonial Manufacturing 1794 Lyell Ave, Rochester, NY 14606
Tour 3 Our Lady of Victory/St. Joseph
210 Pleasant St, Rochester, NY 14604
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SATURDAY, APRIL 27TH Saturday AM Session Sibley Square
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Field Session 1 New City Cafe
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Field Session 2 Rochester Public Market
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Field Session 3 Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Park at Manhattan Square 353 Court St, Rochester, NY 14607
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