Oppenheimer and the Upper West Side

Oppenheimer and the Upper West Side

UWS Highlight, walking tour

By Megan Fitzpatrick J. Robert Oppenheimer is credited with being the founding father of the American School of Theoretical Physics and the creation of the Atomic Bomb that decimated two cities in Japan during the Second World War. He was very much an Upper West...
Building Sites with LGBT Connections

Building Sites with LGBT Connections

Boulevard, Broadway

By Claudie Benjamin They had all been students at Columbia University’s historic preservation program. And, today Jay Shockley, Ken Lustbader, Andrew Dolkart, and Amanda Davis are all notables in the field of historic...
The Bloomingdale Asylum: A New Vision

The Bloomingdale Asylum: A New Vision

19th-century asylums are often portrayed as sinister, but the Bloomingdale Asylum in upper Manhattan was different. Architectural historian Dr. Nina Harkrader reconstructs the site and buildings that from 1815 to nearly the end of that century were an important part...
Stonewall 50: Defining LGBTQ Site Preservation Symposium

Stonewall 50: Defining LGBTQ Site Preservation Symposium

Stonewall 50: Defining LGBTQ Site Preservation A Symposium at Columbia University, Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium April 6, 2019 1:00-6:00pm A key principle of historic preservation is the power of places; a conviction that extant places matter and that they can inform...