Watch the virtual recordings. Each of the sites on the 2021 Endangered Historic Places list was showcased in a free virtual program that included interviews and panel discussions open to the public in June and July 2021.
Tag: Long Island African American Heritage
Endangered Historic Places 2021:
Endangered Historic Places 2021: SANS Historic District
Demolition and intensive redevelopment threaten one of Long Island’s most significant Jim Crow- and Civil Rights-era historic districts in the Village of Sag Harbor.
Endangered Historic Places 2021: Peter Crippen House
A rapidly deteriorating property owned by Huntington Town with strong ties to Long Island’s early colonial development and African American history.
The Visionary Women of Sag Harbor’s Historic Azurest Community
To celebrate Women’s History Month we are happy to share a blog from our archives about two visionary African American sisters, one a Brooklyn school teacher and the other an accomplished architect, who founded a summer community now listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places!
Higher Ground Receives Grant for Eato House Restoration
Grant funding from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation will support a restoration project at the historic Rev. David Eato and Mary Baker Eato House in Setauket.
Archaeological Study To Preserve Peter Crippen House History
The Peter Crippen House, a site of significance to the Town of Huntington’s African American history, was the subject of a recent archaeological study.