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SPLIA NEWS ARCHIVES...
AUTUMN FAMILY SCAVENGER HUNT-SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1PM UNTIL 2:30PM AT SHERWOOD JAYNE FARM, EAST SETAUKET
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Learn about nature while having a little fun! With list in hand we'll head out onto the trails and see what wildlife we can spot. The person with the most sightings will get a small prize!
| THE VANDERBILTS AND THEIR HOUSES: FROM RHODE ISLAND TO LONG ISLAND-SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2012/3PM CSH LAB GRACE AUDITORIUM
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A Country House Lecture
by David Garrard Lowe
The author who is considered one of the world's leading authorities on architectural history and social criticism.
"How different this house was! How different the impulse that led to its construction. It stood not as one of a row, but boldly alone, not as an expression of conformity, but as a proclamation of individualism. It was an outward and visible sign of the success of booming American capitalism and trumpeted the fact that this country could design and construct a dwelling equal to anything in London's Belgravia or on Paris's Avenue du Bois.
New York had seen nothing like it..."
(A description of Alva Vanderbilt's new home in Mr. Lowe's The Man Who Gilded the Gilded Age)
At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Grace Auditorium
1 Bungtown Road (off of 25A)
Laurel Hollow
Sunday, January 8, 2012
3PM
$20
Sponsored by
The Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities
and
The Roslyn Landmark Society
Seating is Limited. Reservations are required.
For information call: 631-692-4664 weekdays
info@splia.org www.splia.org
Also, if you are interested in additional Country House lectures visit www.nyit.edu
| CREATING FAIRY HOUSES - SUNDAY, JUNE 5 12:00-1:30PM AT SHERWOOD-JAYNE FARM
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Build imaginative fairy houses with natural materials
Event conducted by Seatuck Environmental Association Staff
Fee: $4 for Seatuck or SPLIA members, $8 for non-members
| LOCKWOOD DE FOREST AND LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY: FURNISHING THE GILDED AGE WITH A PASSION FOR INDIA, COUNTRY HOUSE LECTURE, SUNDAY, JAN. 9, 2011, DNA LEARNING CENTER, COLD SPRING HARBOR-
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Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932) and Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) established a formal decorating business in 1880. In this presentation, de Forest’s career is placed in the context of the late-nineteenth century East Indian Craft Revival, a movement that found support amongst the British proponents of Arts and Crafts and the British Colonial government in India. Likewise, de Forest’s continuous relationship with Tiffany is explored.
Sunday, January 9, 2011, 3PM, Dolan DNA Learning Center, 334 Main Street (25A) Cold Spring Harbor, $10
For reservations and information call: 631-692-4664 (Mon.-Fri.)
Email: info@splia.org
| SPLIA COUNTRY HOUSE LECTURE SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2010-THE ARCHITECTURE OF GROSVENOR ATTERBURY
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Grace Auditorium at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, 25A, 3PM
In the final decade of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, the United States experienced exponential growth and a flourishing economy, and with it, a building boom. Grosvenor Atterbury (1869-1956) produced more than one hundred major projects, including an array of grand country houses, picturesque estates, informal summer cottages, and farm groups. There were also a number of Long Island projects including Cold Spring Harbor's Wawapek Farm, Bayberry Point and Scully Place in Islip. However, it was his role as a town planner and civic leader and his work to create model tenements, hospitals, workers’ housing, and town plans for which he is most celebrated. His Forest Hills Gardens, designed in association with the Olmsted Brothers, is lauded as one of the most highly significant community planning projects of its time.
Authors Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker will present an illustrated lecture on their new book The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury at Grace Auditorium at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Route 25A, Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 3p.m. Reservations suggested as seating is limited. Fee: $10
Call 631-692-4664 for reservations or more information
| HISTORIC REHABILITATION TAX CREDIT WORKSHOPS - FEB. 9, COLD SPRING HARBOR, FEB. 10 RIVERHEAD
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Rehabilitation tax credits provide real financial incentives for the reuse of historic buildings. Underutilized on Long Island, these credits are not limited to distressed census tracts, have great potential in downtown revitalization, and can apply to both commercial and residential properties. To learn more about the full scope of the federal and state programs, please join industry experts and the New York State Historic Preservation Office at one of two Long Island locations for a workshop discussion on program eligibility, application procedures, and how credits can be monetized.
Workshops are free and will provide program overviews with information on National Register listing (required for accessing the tax credit programs), financing information (including syndication opportunities for non-profits), case studies, and time for question and answers. Developers, preservationists, local governments, property owners, and architects will have special interest.
February 9, 2010 (5:30 – 7:30 p.m.)
SPLIA Headquarters
161 Main Street Cold Spring Harbor
(across from Post Office)
February 10, 2010 (7:30PM-9:30PM)
Riverhead Town Hall
200 Howell Avenue
Riverhead
Hosted by the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (SPLIA) & the Town of Riverhead Landmarks Preservation Commission
RSVP: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 631-692-4664 (Mon.-Fri.)
Speakers
Introduction
Alexandra Wolfe, Preservation Services Director, SPLIA
Richard Wines, Riverhead Landmarks Preservation Commission (Riverhead)
Program Overview:
Elizabeth Martin, Historic Sites Restoration Coordinator, NY State Historic Preservation Office
Virginia Bartos, Historic Preservation Program Analyst, NY State Historic Preservation Office
Tax Credit Monetization:
Murray Gould, Principal, Port City Preservation, LLC
Case Studies:
Cas Stachelberg, Partner, Higgins Quasebarth & Partners, LLC (Cold Spring Harbor)
Ward Dennis, Partner Higgins Quasebarth & Partners, LLC (Riverhead)
| SPLIA TO LAUNCH AN ENDANGERED PROPERTIES LIST FOR LONG ISLAND. DOWNLOAD A FORM AND NOMINATE TODAY!
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Long Island is rich in cultural heritage. From the farming villages of the east end, to the fishing industries of the Great South Bay and the Gold Coast estates of the North Shore, ours is a deep and complex history.
| SOUTHBAY ANTIQUE AUCTION TO BENEFIT SPLIA, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 6TH AT NOON
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Southbay Auctions will conduct an antique auction to benefit the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities
Saturday, February 6th at 12 noon at the SPLIA Gallery at Shore Road and 25A in Cold Spring Harbor. For more information call: 631-692 4664
| ON EXHIBIT NOW THROUGH DECEMBER 12TH: ROMANTIC LONG ISLAND; 19TH CENTURY IMAGES
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An exhibit organized from the collection of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities by Robert B. MacKay, Director of the Society, in consultation with Franklin Hill Perrell, former Curator of the Nassau County Fine Arts Museum.
Description: As Romanticism manifested itself in America in the middle decades of the 19th century, Long Island "the garden of the middle colonies" became a source of artistic inspiration for the movement's embrace of nature and the picturesque. Our agrarian traditions, virgin landscapes and rural idealism provided a wealth of subjects for artists who sought aesthetic dimensions. Nostalgia for simpler times, the movement's antidote for a rapidly industrializing America, is particularly seen in the Currier & Ives views included in the exhibit. Many are by Fanny Palmer (1812-1876) the graphic artist who Nathanial Currier frequently sent out to Long Island in his carriage to sketch first hand. Recording genre scenes, set in nature's panoply, are paintings and drawings by William S. Mount (1807 - 1868), his younger contemporary William Davis (1829 -1920) and the German emigre artist Edward Lange whose highly detailed depictions of country seats and their landscape gardens also expressed the age's aesthetic for the picturesque. Romanticism in America also shared in the idealism and developed apace with the emergence of national identity, hence, the exhibit also includes works awash in the metaphors of nationalism such as James Bard's (1815-1897) flag festooned depiction of Steamboat Seawanhaka, a lithograph of Sag Harbor's Suffolk Guard and an eagle embossed Civil War drum manufactured by A. Rogers of Flushing. Comprised of a variety of artistic mediums and featuring many works never before exhibited by SPLIA.
The SPLIA Gallery is located in Cold Spring Harbor at the corner of Route 25A and Shore Road (across from the fire house)
Open Friday through Sunday, 11am-5pm. (Admission $1).
For more info, please call the Gallery at 631-367-6295
| GETTING BUGGY NATURE WALK SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17TH-JOIN US ON THIS WALK AS WE LEARN ABOUT BUGS
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Are all bugs insects? Is a spider an insect? Peter Walsh from Seatuck Environmental Association will teach us the difference between insects, arachnids and some of the other critters we call "bugs."
Sunday, October 17
9:30am-10:30am
Sherwood Jayne Farm
55 Old Post Road
East Setauket
Refreshments and Sherwood Jayne house tours available afterward. Reservations appreciated. Call 631-692-4664 (Monday thru Friday)
This is a free event.
| HISTORIC REHABILITATION TAX CREDIT WORKSHOP - TUESDAY, APRIL 6TH, 7PM-9PM RIVERHEAD TOWN HALL
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(SEE BELOW FOR DIRECTIONS TO 200 HOWELL AVE.)
Rehabilitation tax credits provide real financial incentives for the reuse of historic buildings. Underutilized on Long Island, these credits are not limited to distressed census tracts, have great potential in downtown revitalization, and can apply to both commercial and residential properties. To learn more about the full scope of the federal and state programs, please join industry experts and the New York State Historic Preservation Office at one of two Long Island locations for a workshop discussion on program eligibility, application procedures, and how credits can be monetized.
This workshop is free and will provide program overviews with information on National Register eligibility and listing, financing information (including syndication opportunities for non-profits), case studies, and time for question and answers. Developers, preservationists, local governments, property owners, and architects will have special interest.
Originally planned for Wednesday, February 10th 2010 and canceled due to inclement weather, this workshop is a rescheduling:
Hosted by the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (SPLIA) & the Town of Riverhead Landmarks Preservation Commission
RSVP: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities,
awolfe@splia.org or 631-692-4664
From LIE (495) Eastbound: Exit 71 at the end of exit ramp turn right on to Route 24 East to traffic circle. At traffic circle go 3/4 around to Peconic Avenue (north) to Main Street (Rte 25) turn right (east)
From Sunrise Highway (Route 27A) Eastbound: Exit 61 on to Route 51 North to traffic circle, go 2/3 around to Peconic Ave. Take Peconic Ave to Main Street (Rte 25) turn right (east)
From Sunrise Highway (Route 27A) Westbound: Exit 62 on to Route 51 North to traffic circle, go 2/3 around to Peconic Ave. Take Peconic Ave to Main Street (Rte 25) turn right (east)
| SHEEP SHEARING AT SHERWOOD-JAYNE FARM-FRIDAY, MAY 7 4PM UNTIL 6PM
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Join us for sheep shearing with Tabbitha Haubbold, who owns her own llama farm. Tabbitha will shear and discuss the history of wool.
This is a free event.
Sherwood Jayne
55 Old Post Road
East Setauket
Sponsored by SPLIA (Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities)
call 631-692-4664 (Monday-Friday) for more information
| TEARDOWNS AND ECONOMIC HARDSHIP/FREE PRESERVATION WORKSHOPS FOR LOCAL BOARDS MAY 15 AND JUNE 5 -
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A look at innovative and lucrative zoning strategies designed to prevent excessive land development.
Many towns and villages on Long Island are experiencing high numbers of teardowns. Demolition applications
are increasing as land values escalate. Economic hardship criteria are utilized as one of many arguments supporting
the demolition of historic structures, and the difficulty in defining the extent of “hardship” appears to
contribute to the rate of teardowns in our historic districts. An examination of these issues and a look at innovative
zoning strategies designed to prevent excessive land development will assist members of local architectural
and historic review boards in their application approval process.
The Village of Southampton, with nearly 500 designated resources in four historic districts, provides an ideal
case study for the impact of teardowns and the difficulties of evaluating economic hardship applications. Workshop
participants will have the opportunity to share their issues, questions and concerns with the guest speakers
and with local preservationists.
Each workshop is provided free of charge through funding by the Certified Local Government program of the
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Lunch is included in this program.
May 15, 2010, 10:00 – 2:00
SPLIA Headquarters
161 Main Street
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
June 5, 2010 10AM-2PM
Southampton Village Hall
23 Main Street
Southampton, NY 11968
RSVP for either program: awolfe@splia.org or 631-692-4664
| FALL MIGRATORY BIRD WALK WITH ORNITHOLOGIST, JOHN TURNER SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24TH-BRING YOUR BINOCULARS AND SEE THESE BIRDS AS THEY PASS THROUGH OUR AREA ON THEIR WAY SOUTH
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Hundreds of thousands of migratory birds have South America on their minds. We will observe them on this walk through the woods.
Sunday, October 24
9am-11am
Sherwood Jayne Farm
55 Old Post Road
East Setauket
Refreshments and Sherwood Jayne house tours available afterward. Reservations appreciated. Call 631-692-4664 (Monday-Friday)
This is a free event.
| CALLING FOR NOMINATIONS TO SPLIA'S 2011 LIST OF ENDANGERED SITES
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Historic properties spanning the length of Long Island are regularly threatened by a variety of complex issues that all point to a need for their greater appreciation and protection. To raise awareness, SPLIA launched its Endangered Sites Program for Long Island in January 2010.
Our first list, drawn from island-wide submissions, is summarized in the Spring 2010 issue of Preservation Notes.
Please join in this effort to protect our valuable historic resources. If you know of an important historic site that is in threat, download SPLIA's
Long Island's List of Endangered Historic Sites Nomination Form and nominate today! The deadline for submissions is November 15th 2010.
| LONG ISLAND APPLE FESTIVAL IS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 AT SHERWOOD JAYNE FARM IN EAST SETAUKET
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The 22nd annual apple festival kicks off at 11am on Sunday, September 18th. It will be a full day of colonial family fun featuring candied apples, colonial cooking demonstations,face painting, crafts, an apple pie baking contest, Sherwood Jayne house tours, hay rides, American Girl doll auction, colonial games and much more.
Sherwood Jayne Farm
55 Old Post Road, East Setauket
11am-4:30PM
Admission: $6 adults, $4.00 seniors and children ages 2-12
For more information call 631-692-4664
www.splia.org
| INSECTS IN THE NIGHT -AN UP CLOSE LOOK AT NOCTURNAL BUGS/SHERWOOD-JAYNE FARM, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 8:00PM-9:00PM
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Hosted by Seatuck Environmental Association
Fee: $4 for Seatuck/SPLIA Members, $8 for non-members
| NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AT SHERWOOD-JAYNE FARM/SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2:00PM-4:00PM
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Event conducted by Seatuck Environmental Association Staff
Fee: $10 for Seatuck or SPLIA members, $20 for non-members
| CREATING FAIRY HOUSES - SUNDAY, AUGUST 21 FROM 12:30PM UNTIL 2PM AT SHERWOOD JAYNE FARM, EAST SETAUKET
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Even fairies need homes. Come help us build imaginative fairy houses around the property with sticks, stones and other natural materials we find. Who knows what else we'll see along the way!
$4 members/$8 non-members
| FAMILY NATURE SCAVENGER HUNT-SUNDAY, AUGUST 28 FROM 10AM UNTIL 11AM AT SHERWOOD JAYNE FARM, EAST SETAUKET
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Let's go out and learn about nature while having a little fun! With list in hand we'll head out onto the trails and see what wildlife we can spot. The person with the most sightings will win a small prize!
$4 members/$8 non-members
| SAG HARBOR WALKING TOUR-
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WE'RE SORRY. THIS TOUR IS SOLD OUT.
| LONG BEACH ARCHITECTURAL TOUR-
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Long Beach historian, Roberta Fiore, will lead a walking tour highlighting the Long Beach Boardwalk and early architecture of the city. The tour, entitled “From the World Fairs to Our Thoroughfare” will explain the direct influence the World Fairs phenomenon had on planned communities like Long Beach. She will show how developers like William Reynolds used every aspect of the modern technology of the day to create a city on a sand bar.
Tour begins at the Long Beach Museum (226 W. Penn Street) and ends there with a World’s Fair treat!
SPLIA members $5/non-members $10
Space is limited.
Reservations required call 631-692-4664
www.splia.org
| KID'S WALK AND SKETCH TOUR OF HISTORIC SAG HARBOR-MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2011/10AM-12:30PM
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Architectural Educator, Janet Sygar, will lead 8-12 year olds on a sketching tour of Sag Harbor encouraging them to observe the architectural details of our most prominent buildings.
Meet at Custom House at Main and Garden
(Rain date Tuesday, August 3o)
Fee: $10 (includes sketching materials)
Please make checks payable to: SPLIA c/o Lieber,
P.O. Box 1943
Sag Harbor, NY
11963
Reservations required: 631-725-3229
www.splia.org
| VICTORIAN ROSLYN; A SUCCESSION OF STYLES, WALKING TOUR LED BY FRANKLIN HILL PERRELL SAT./OCT. 22,/2PM-4PM/MEET AT BRYANT LIBRARY AT 2 PAPER MILL RD.
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The essence of the Victorian Era was revival: Gothic, Greek, Italianate, Empire, et al. These styles are represented in more than 30 pre-Civil War houses surrounding Roslyn's scenic ponds, many protected by covenants held by the Roslyn Landmark Society since Peggy and Roger Gerry began the drive to save them half a century ago. Today, Roslyn may well look better than it did 100 years ago. The Society continues, among its many projects, restoring the Jerusha Dewey Cottage (a unique compendium of Victorian motifs, built by Bryant and occupied by the Fricks) and the elegant Milliken Trellis, the monumental focal point in the formal Gardens designed by Marian Cruger Coffin which survive from the original estate (now Bryant Preserve/NCMA). The tour will be followed by tea and cookies at Diane's Bakery (under the viaduct).
SPLIA Members $5/non-members $10
Space is limited. Call for reservations at 631-692-4664
| JUPITER HAMMON 300TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: ENDURING INFLUENCE WORKSHOP, EXCAVATION AND POETRY READING AT JOSEPH LLOYD MANOR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 1PM-3:30PM
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A hands-on workshop will teach guests how history can be reclaimed through archaeology at Joseph Lloyd Manor. A working excavation will demonstrate the recovery process and participants will learn how to identify artifacts, how to connect objects to past peoples and what that means for us today. Ongoing tours of the manor will include excerpts from Hammon's writing and focus on his vision for the future. Finally, Anabelle Moseley will contribute modern works of poetry inspired by Hammon and the experience of living in the manor house.
For more information call 631-692-4664
| LIFE ON A FARM-SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, NOON-1PM AT SHERWOOD JAYNE FARM, EAST SETAUKET
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Learn how early settlers worked the land and relied on nature to forge a life on Long Island during Colonial times. Bring something to eat and join us for an informal lunch afterwards.
Register
| SILENT NATURE HIKE AT SHERWOOD JAYNE FARM EAST SETAUKET ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 FROM 1PM - 2:30PM
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Seatuck Environmental Association will take you on a silent hike to experience the sights and sounds of nature that we might not normally encounter. Younger children welcome if they can be silent.
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