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Historic Preservation is a Tool for
Planning Change
We
invite you to share history, build communities and shape lives.
Membership support is the single largest building block of our
annual budget. Members make possible the unusually wide array of resources to
increase historic preservation awareness, responsible development practices,
environmentally responsible adaptive reuse and, ultimately, sustainable living
for us all. Membership also confirms you as a
leader who cares about protecting and enhancing community character, historic
streetscapes and resources and most of all, the fragile balance of our city,
towns and villages.
What do you help us deliver?
Advocacy
Sharing
a message and education are closely allied forms of communication, and Landmark
Society advocacy has a far-reaching and historic place both locally and
nationally. We have a seven-decade history of service to architectural
preservation and cultural advancement. Advocacy allows a local message and its
impact to be shared at the regional and national levels.
Preservation Planning Services
Every day Landmark Society staff educates individuals and communities about how
to save historic buildings and landscapes and encourages the adaptive reuse of
notable structures. The effort involved in providing for vital and healthy
neighborhoods, villages and urban centers is an enormous endeavor, requiring the
work of a highly-trained, exceptionally talented and dedicated staff. Your
support makes it possible to identify, evaluate, document and protect
irreplaceable historic resources, assist neighborhood and civic activists and
provide leadership and guidance to property owners, developers, local
governments and agencies that help shape your built environment. Researchers, property
owners, developers, local governments and academic institutions have learned to
rely upon us to share our knowledge and facilitate their great
achievements.
Events and Educational Programming

Our educational programming is acknowledged as some of the finest of its kind in
the nation, and we always have something going on! From our locally-centered
Landmark Society Ghost Walk every October, to our Walk the Walk program
highlighting the amazing achievements of our African-American ancestors, to our
building, travel and architectural tours, our programs cover a myriad of detail,
interests and locales.
Museums
The Landmark Society maintains two house museums - the Stone-Tolan House in
Brighton and the Campbell-Whittlesey House in Rochester, along with the historic
Ellwanger Garden and the Hoyt-Potter mansion, an 1840s house adapted for our
offices. We love to share them with visitors and often give tours for school
groups and others. (For tours information, please call 546-7029 x10 or email us)
RochesterCityLiving
RochesterCityLiving continues its work to inform and inspire city
living, via our comprehensive web site www.rochestercityliving.com,
our popular HomeWork house-of-the-week columns in CITY newspaper, our
tour program, our education/training opportunities and through customized
assistance to those who call and contact us through our web site, which has over 240,000 visitor sessions per year. Searchable MLS listings,
neighborhood profiles, a first-time home-buyer’s guide, featured homes for
sale and information on purchase assistance programs are among the services
offered at the site. RochesterCityLiving also conducts bi-annual training for realtors
on historic home marketing and neighborhood bus tours for City Living Sundays.
We even blog! Check out our blog, Confessions
of a Preservationist.
Inspire.
Encourage. Advocate. JOIN. Make a positive impact.
Follow this link:
for
membership levels, benefits and to join online.
If you'd like to give a gift membership, please call (585) 546-7029 x10.
“The act of obliteration is breathlessly swift. However fast history can be made, it can be unmade still faster.” - Henry James
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