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Noteworthy
PRESERVATION UPDATE: York Hall Added to National Register of Historic Places!
We are delighted to report that York Hall, one of our 2017 Endangered Historic Places, was officially listed in the National Register of Historic Places!
ADVOCACY UPDATE!
Idle Hour
Town Votes Yes to Planned Landmark Preservation District
The Islip Town Board voted unanimously for zoning resolution to further protect the historic building in Oakdale from being altered.
ADVOCACY UPDATE!
St. Paul’s School
Garden City Residents Choose Preservation!
Preservation Wins! Voters overwhelmingly chose to save St. Paul’s School main building in a Public Opinion Poll held on October 21st.
Jupiter Hammon Birthday and Black Poetry Day Event Featured in Newsday
Preservation Long Island and Lloyd Harbor Historical Society hosted a special day of tours celebrating the Long Island writer who was America’s first published African-American poet.
The Background Parade: Elizabeth Tailer Nelson and the Transatlantic Portrait
Nicholas Vega, collections and curatorial intern and 2023 Gardiner Young Scholar, shares his research on the provocative seventeenth-century portrait of Elizabeth Tailer Nelson (1667–1734), the mother-in-law of Henry Lloyd of Queens Village.