Review: Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks

Book Review| March 01 2016 Review: Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks Museum of the City of New York 21 April 2015–3 January 2016 Jeffrey A. Kroessler Jeffrey A. Kroessler John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2016) 75 (1): 119–120. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2016.75.1.119 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jeffrey A. Kroessler; Review: Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2016; 75 (1): 119–120. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2016.75.1.119 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search New York City's landmarks law is fifty years old, and to celebrate this milestone the Museum of the City of New York mounted an exhibition to tell the story. Using both historic documents and contemporary photographs, the curators (Andrew S. Dolkart and Donald Albrecht, with Seri Worden) told this story well, from the demolition of the 1803 St. John's Chapel in 1918 through the enactment of the law itself in 1965 to the continuing efforts of preservationists to protect the historic city in the twenty-first century. If I had one quibble it was that they made it all seem so easy, so inevitable. The conflicts and controversies were there—the loss of Pennsylvania Station and the fights to save Grand Central Terminal and the Broadway theaters, the long campaign to protect Greenwich Village, the battle over a tower proposed for St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue—but they were presented in a... You do not currently have access to this content.