Steven Baltsas, our Peggy N. Gerry Curatorial Fellow, who will be with us through 2027, reflects on his first six months of the Long Island Furniture Project, which aims to increase knowledge of and accessibility to furniture made on Long Island, ca. 1660–1860.
We are pleased to share a blog written by PLI Intern Daghan Konur, who has been working with our Education and Engagement Director, Andrew Tharler, on a project to reconstruct the biographies of individuals enslaved at Joseph Lloyd Manor.
This summer’s Gardiner Young Scholar, Genevieve Barbee of Cornell University, helped update our Endangered Historic Places list. In this post, she highlights the history and significance of the Peter Crippen House, listed in 2021.
We are pleased to welcome to the blog, Sarah Egan, a graduate curatorial intern, who spent the summer researching objects in Preservation Long Island’s collection, including an intriguing cast-iron birdhouse of “Clifton” house manufactured by the Miller Iron Company in 1868.
Tommy, a high school collections intern, shares his summer research on a pair of bone napkin rings carved by Civil War veteran, Obadiah Jackson Downing (1835–1925), during his captivity at Libby Prison in Richmond Virginia.
This April marks the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel that transformed Long Island’s North Shore into a symbol of Jazz Age glamour and ambition. Preservation Director Tara Cubie explores the real people, places, and estates that inspired Fitzgerald’s fictional world—and how the Gold Coast’s legacy continues to shape our fascination with Gatsby a century later.