Historic Preservation as Federal Policy: The First 50 Years.

Wes Haynes, distinguished advocate for Connecticut historic preservation, to speak on successes and challenges at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum

On Wed. Oct. 12, 2016, 11 a.m. at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, Stamford, CT native, Wes Haynes, whose restoration projects include NYS Capitol in Albany and Central Park, will give a talk titled, Historic Preservation as Federal Policy: The First 50 Years. The talk will be held at 295 West Ave, Norwalk, CT.

The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966 established the regulatory framework for historic preservation in Connecticut. Adapted from Western European precedent and tailored to American federalism, NHPA standardized the identification, registration and treatment of historic resources by funding a network of newly created State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs). The talk will review NHPA's impact on Connecticut's historic built environment through examples of successes and challenges.

Mr. Haynes has thirty-five years’ experience in historic preservation. After starting his career as a volunteer surveying Stamford’s historic resources, he served as a historic preservation specialist with the Ehrenkrantz Group, Architects and Planners, where he co-authored the master plan for the restoration of the NYS Capitol in Albany and prepared the historic resource inventory for the restoration of Central Park. He has held positions with the New York Landmarks Conservancy, Preservation League of New York State, New Jersey Historic Trust and formerly taught historic preservation at the Brooklyn High School of the Arts, Parsons School of Design, among others. He is now directing Making Places, the Trust's initiative to inventory and stimulate preservation reinvestment in historic industrial properties. Mr. Haynes serves as president of the First Church Conservancy, a project focused on the conservation of Stamford’s First Presbyterian Church, and he is on the non-profit board of the Sagamore Institute in Raquette Lake, New York, which operates an Adirondack Great Camp open to the public.

This will be the second in a series of lectures by curators and experts in the field of Victorian era material life and the Museum’s 50years of history. The lectures are $25 for members, $30 for non-members per session. Please RSVP by Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. The price includes lecture, lunch and a first floor Mansion tour. Lunch is courtesy of Best in Gourmet. The chair of the Lecture Committee is Mimi Findlay of New Canaan. Please contact info@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com, call 203-838-9799, ext. 4 or visit us at lockwoodmathewsmansion.com to purchase tickets.

The Museum’s 2016 cultural and educational programs are made possible in part by generous funding from LMMM’s Founding Patrons: The Estate of Mrs. Cynthia Clark Brown, the Museum’s Distinguished Benefactors: Klaff’s, The Xerox Foundation, and The Maurice Goodman Foundation.The exhibitions currently on view, Demolish or Preserve: The 1960s at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansionand The Stairs Below: The Mansion’s Domestic Servants, 1868-1938, Part II,have been generously funded in part by the CT Humanities.                   

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum is a National Historic Landmark. For more information on schedules and programs please visit: lockwoodmathewsmansion.com, e-mail info@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com, or call 203-838-9799.