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Equity advocate who advocates for culturally significant sites deemed unlandmarkable by their local landmarks preservation commissions and boards and/or the National Register of Historic Places.

Calling all you Mason and Carpenter Bees!Registration is LIVE for theInaugural Beyond Integrity in (X) Virtual Conferenc...
07/20/2021

Calling all you Mason and Carpenter Bees!
Registration is LIVE for the
Inaugural Beyond Integrity in (X) Virtual Conference!
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What will “X” equal in this year’s conference?
X = Montgomery, Alabama and Hartford, Connecticut


Presenters from across the US will cover topics such as:
:: Efforts to document the cultural significance of buildings, sites, landscapes, cemeteries, bridges, and art in historic landmark nomination forms.
:: Efforts to educate Landmarks Preservation Commissions and Boards on the importance of valuing the cultural significance in their evaluation of landmark nomination forms.
:: Case studies in successful culturally significant landmark nominations and designations at the local level or for the National Register of Historic Places.
:: Other topics that fit within the goal of equity in the eligibility and landmark designation process at a local and national level.
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To register, read conference session abstracts, speaker bios + more, visit the link in profile
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Calling all you Mason and Carpenter Bees!Registration is LIVE for theInaugural Beyond Integrity in (X) Virtual Conferenc...
06/22/2021

Calling all you Mason and Carpenter Bees!

Registration is LIVE for the
Inaugural Beyond Integrity in (X) Virtual Conference!

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What will “X” equal in this year’s conference? Find out from the full lineup announcement in July.

Presenters from across the US will cover topics such as:

:: Efforts to document the cultural significance of buildings, sites, landscapes, cemeteries, bridges, and art in historic landmark nomination forms.

:: Efforts to educate Landmarks Preservation Commissions and Boards on the importance of valuing the cultural significance in their evaluation of landmark nomination forms.

:: Case studies in successful culturally significant landmark nominations and designations at the local level or for the National Register of Historic Places.

:: Other topics that fit within the goal of equity in the eligibility and landmark designation process at a local and national level.

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Sponsored by
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Hosted / Managed by
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To register + for more info, visit the link in profile 🐝

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Ask + you shall receive ... by popular demand:Conference Proposals due date revised to Tues., June 8, 2021Inaugural Beyo...
05/28/2021

Ask + you shall receive ... by popular demand:

Conference Proposals due date revised to Tues., June 8, 2021

Inaugural
Beyond Integrity in (X) Virtual Preservation
Conference

See link in profile for more info + to see the RSV🐝s

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Call for Proposals!Due Tues., June 1, 2021for theInaugural Beyond Integrity in (X) Virtual Conference! Tues., Aug. 10, 2...
05/04/2021

Call for Proposals!
Due Tues., June 1, 2021

for the

Inaugural Beyond Integrity in (X) Virtual Conference!

Tues., Aug. 10, 2021 - Wed., Aug. 11, 2021

Bee Cool - Join us to cross-pollinate for equity in the eligibility and landmarking rules!

Hosted by K. Kennedy Whiters, Architect + Founder, Beyond Integrity in (X)

Thank you sponsors:


Thank poster artist:

Call for Proposals due Tues., June 1. Registration opens in June. In the meantime, let us know if you plan to attend. See the link in profile to RSVP + send proposals.

Beyond Integrity will notify presenters of their inclusion in the conference by Thurs., July 1, 2021. Presenters will receive a financial honorarium that includes complimentary registration fee.
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Happy Birthday Jane Jacobs!
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Save the Date!Inaugural Beyond Integrity in (X) Conference!Tues., Aug. 10, 2021 - Wed., Aug. 11, 2021Bee Cool - Join us ...
04/27/2021

Save the Date!

Inaugural Beyond Integrity in (X) Conference!
Tues., Aug. 10, 2021 - Wed., Aug. 11, 2021

Bee Cool - Join us to cross-pollinate for equity in the eligibility and landmarking rules!

Hosted by K. Kennedy Whiters, Architect + Founder, Beyond Integrity in X

Thank you sponsors!


Call for Proposals will launch in May. Registration opens in June 2021. In the meantime, let us know if you plan to attend. See the link in profile to RSVP.
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Let’s continue w/ unLandmarkables w/ abolitionist activity in their history - the third NYC property is:134-136 BoweryIn...
04/27/2021

Let’s continue w/ unLandmarkables w/ abolitionist activity in their history - the third NYC property is:
134-136 Bowery
In the Little Italy neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan

Built by tradespeople in the Federal Style in 1798 for Samuel Delaplaine, a White abolitionist, Quaker. Samuel + his wife Phila Delaplaine donated property they owned nearby for a cemetery for the burial of Black people.
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What’s its cultural significance?
:: Similar to 227 Duffield + 857 Riverside (see the previous posts), per sources noted in the database, researchers associate 134-136 Bowery w/ abolitionist activity - a temporary safe house for enslaved Black people who ran away from their White capturers. Several abolitionists lived here incl. Samuel Delaplaine who wrote an Anti-Slavery Manifesto in 1793 and Reverend Spencer H. Cone, a minister of Oliver Street Baptist Church. Sculptor Eva Hesse (1936-1970) also had a studio in the half-story of No. 134. A link to the source of this information is in the unLandmarkables database.
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Why is it an unLandmarkable?
:: Although listed in the Bowery Nat’l Register Historic District (NRHP 2013), it is not an individual NYC Landmark. Bowery Alliance of Neighbors advocates for individual NYC landmark listing of many Bowery properties. On June 15, 2015, they submitted a Request for Evaluation (RFE) for 134-136 and on Aug. 10, 2015, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission rejected the RFE. Good news: BAN continues their advocacy + made great progress w/ an East Bowery Preservation Plan. Noteworthy is that the Area of Significance in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) database states no mention of abolitionist history, “Architecture; Entertainment/Recreation; European; Exploration/Settlement; Social History; Transportation; Asian”. Of the levels of significance possible (International, Local, National, + State), the database only lists State.
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Read more about 134-136 Bowery in the unLandmarkables database - see the link in the profile. In the database you’ll also find a link to the organization advocating for its protection. And, while you’re there, add an unLandmarkable to the database!

Let’s continue with unLandmarkables with abolitionist activity in their history - the second NYC property is:857 Riversi...
03/31/2021

Let’s continue with unLandmarkables with abolitionist activity in their history - the second NYC property is:

857 Riverside Drive
The Harris-Newhouse House

In the Washington Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan

Built in the Transitional Greek Revival Italianate Style in 1851
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What’s its cultural significance?
:: Similar to 227 Duffield (see the previous post), per sources noted in the database, researchers associate 857 Riverside with abolitionist activity. They state it is the last property associated with this activity in Upper Manhattan.
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Why is it an unLandmarkable?
:: In November of 2020, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission denied an application to calendar / hear nomination testimony.
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Read more about 857 Riverside in the unLandmarkables database - see the link in the profile. In the database you’ll also find a link to the organization advocating for its protection. And, while you’re there, add an unLandmarkable to the database!
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From the Instagram post published on Feb. 23, 2021: , One of the few remaining sites in NYC associated with the undergr...
03/08/2021

From the Instagram post published on Feb. 23, 2021:
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One of the few remaining sites in NYC associated with the underground railroad, one of few with existing tunnels underneath, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission landmarked 227 Duffield Street (aka Abolitionist Way) in the Borough of Brooklyn on February 2, 2021. Landmarking this culturally significant site, a Greek Revival rowhouse built by tradesmen ca. 1847-1850, was a great way to start Black History Month, yet almost 20 years in the making.

In 2007, NYC made an attempt to demolish the building by eminent domain and local activist Raul Rothblatt asked the LPC to landmark the building. LPC denied this request due to a lack of architectural integrity - it was . Thanks to the advocacy of its African American owner and the surrounding community, they saved 227 from the fate of its neighbors. For years, the owner, Joy Chatel, operated an underground railroad museum from the building whose tours took visitors to the tunnels below.

From Untapped New York:
227 Duffield Street was once the home of Thomas and Harriet Truesdell, staunch [White] abolitionists who moved to the house in 1850. Thomas was a delegate at the Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Convention, Harriet was a treasurer and secretary of the Providence Female Anti-Slavery Society and a delegate and committee member of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women in 1838. Just nearby, Underground Railroad conductor William Harned lived at the intersection of Duffield and Willoughby streets."

227 is the remaining building of a block of rowhouses associated with abolitionist activity in downtown Brooklyn. And, February 2, was not its first appearance before the NY Landmarks Preservation Commission. In 2007, the LPC chose to not calendar/schedule a hearing for landmark designation. Perhaps because of the protests for Black lives last year, Mayor deBlasio asked LPC to consider its designation (The Gothamist - see the unLandmarkables database for the link - see link in profile).

Of note is the concern that continues in historic preservation about landmarking culturally significant structures that might lack architectural integrity or perhaps bias about certain elements of US history. From The Gothamist:
"At one point, Frederick Bland, another commissioner, asked whether landmarking culturally important landmarks might be a 'slippery slope.' What about other kinds of less progressive or 'less salubrious cultural events' that have taken place within New York City buildings, he asked. How would they be treated?
"Chair Sarah Carroll rightly replied, 'Instead of thinking of it as a slippery slope, I would say it's a challenge that we have to rise to.'"

The sentiment expressed by the LPC Commissioner feels very similar to the bias experienced by the deForest Brothers in their pioneering efforts to add Black Landmarks to the National Park Service System in the 1970s (see for more on the deForest Brothers).

Learn more about 227 Duffield in the unLandmarkables Database - see the Beyond Integrity in X website in profile.
While you’re there, add a site/building/mural, etc., deemed "unLandmarkable" because of architectural integrity to the database.

From the Instagram post published on Feb. 17, 2021:OK!So, Liberty Bank, the match that sparked what became Beyond Integr...
03/08/2021

From the Instagram post published on Feb. 17, 2021:
OK!

So, Liberty Bank, the match that sparked what became Beyond Integrity, contractors built it in 1968. It was a design by a Black architect named Mel Streeter in the Northwest architectural style.

When it opened in 1968 in Seattle’s Central District, it had a lot going for it, cultural significance, Criterion D-wise:
:: designed by an architect who is Black, rare then
:: the first bank in the Pacific Northwest majority Black-owned
:: the Central District was Seattle’s majority Black neighborhood, redlining was prolific in Seattle, and so this bank provided new economic opportunities, in 1968 and beyond, for Black people and other people who White majority banks and other players denied real estate financing

By the time it had its day before the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board in March 2014, well, yes the Board and others such as the preservation architect the developer hired, questioned its architectural integrity. A key defining feature of the Northwest style, exposed Douglas fir beams (things of honey-kissed beauty!) were now partially enclosed.

At the time of the hearing, I was an intern at an architecture firm. On a lunch break, I squeezed into a corner of the hearing room - it was PACKED! And, I left after my hour break, heartbroken, for two reasons:
:: witnessing one of the Central District Black elders speak to the significance of the bank to a board that, due to the physical elevation of the board, appeared to be looking down on him. Thankfully, since then and pre-COVID, they sit at the same level as the attendees. And now, you can virtually attend!
:: an architect who I respected, before the hearing, tear apart the architectural integrity of the bank. They worked for the developer who would go on to demolish the bank and replace it with what stands today, mixed use affordable housing and a Black-owned restaurant.

Liberty Bank is now an .

Today, in Seattle, another Black landmark has a landmark designation hearing. A post will follow this one about the Cayyon-Revels House. Stay tuned!

Do you know of an unLandmarkable? Add it to the database - see link in this profile!

- kennedy

03/08/2021

From the Instagram post on Feb. 23, 2021:
Beyond Integrity’s unLandmarkables

, : What is an “ ?” Visit the Beyond Integrity in X website to learn more. See link in profile.

Know of a culturally significant building/site/mural, etc. deemed "unLandmarkable" because of architectural integrity? Add it to the database!



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What began as a response to the city of Seattle's Landmarks Preservation Board vote in 2014 to not landmark the first Bl...
03/08/2021

What began as a response to the city of Seattle's Landmarks Preservation Board vote in 2014 to not landmark the first Black-owned bank in the Pacific Northwest, Liberty Bank, became Beyond Integrity King County. Then Preservation Director for 4Culture, Flo Lentz assembled a group of preservationists in King County and Tacoma to brainstorm ways to address equity in preservation as it relates to the landmarking process.

Flo, a nationally-recognized preservationist, saw a pattern of votes against landmarking culturally significant properties and sites that lacked architectural integrity, from the local level all the way up to the federal ranks at the Secretary of the Interior, the keeper of the National Register of Historic Places.

And so, what the group first called "Equity in Preservation," evolved to become "Beyond Integrity," so named by K. Kennedy Whiters and approved by the other members.*

Now, Kennedy, in response to hearing interest in the work of Beyond Integrity in King County at the inaugural 2020 Conference, and learning of other equity in preservation activity in New York, has expanded the initiative to Beyond Integrity in (X). The "X" is for any city, county, state, etc. in the US. The goal of Beyond Integrity in X is to use the power of maps to cross-pollinate ideas that will support existing dialogue among fellow preservationists or be a catalyst for new discussions with their local landmarks boards/commissions on why they should look beyond integrity in the landmark process.

Note: This work acknowledges that listing on the National Register of Historic Places or a local register does not save a property from demolition. Instead, what it does is keep it in the collective memory of our country's history. Yes, placement in a landmark register is an honorarium, it is an honorarium that says that the history tied to this place, the people associated with that history, matter, to our collective US history. To that end, landmarking matters.

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