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,…
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New York Landmarks Preservation Commission votes to make Stonewall Inn a local landmark
New York City finally recognizes the National Historic Landmark in its midst! The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted this morning to approve the nomination long advocated by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. With more than 20 testimonies in favor of landmarking Stonewall Inn coming from LGBT activists, preservationists, local politicians, and Stonewall riot survivors—and none in opposition—a…