Thank you to the National Trust for Historic Preservation for this great feature on an exciting effort by of Mark Meinke and others to nominate the House of the Furies as a local landmark in Washington, D.C. When Robert Pohl and his wife moved into their home in the Washington, DC neighborhood of Capitol Hill in 2004,…
Month: December 2015
Landmark nomination approved for Bayard Rustin’s home at Penn South Complex in New York City
I’m pleased to report that the New York State Board for Historic Preservation unanimously approved the nomination of Bayard Rustin’s home at 340 West 28th Street in the Penn South complex for Landmark status today. We believe this move is one of the first landmark designations to recognize the importance of an African American gay man’s home. Following this move,…
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