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.
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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