NEWS & PRESS 2023
A Grant for Historic Survey in Wainscott
Wainscott Heritage Project Hosts Talk With Sarah Kautz
A Grant for Historic Survey in Wainscott
The East Hampton Star |
Christine Sampson
August 10, 2023
The Wainscott Heritage Project, a nonprofit formed in 2021, will undertake a survey of historic structures in that hamlet after receiving a $14,400 grant from the Preserve New York initiative, funded by the Preservation League of New York State, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.
Historic surveys are often the first step in the establishment of a historic district and the addition of structures to the State and National Registers of Historic Places. The new grant, according to the Wainscott Heritage Project, will help assess the "basic historic and/or architectural contexts associated with the development and physical character of an area."
The Sarah Kautz Consulting Corporation has been selected to perform the survey work, which will include inventories of historic buildings that incorporate maps and photographs as well as recommendations for further studies. Sarah Kautz is an archaeologist, historical anthropologist, and preservation advocate who in June lectured on "best practices and models for historic preservation" at the Wainscott Chapel.
image: photo by Durell Godfrey
Preservation Advocacy in Wainscott
Wainscott Heritage Project Hosts Talk With Sarah Kautz
A Grant for Historic Survey in Wainscott
The East Hampton Star |
Christine Sampson
June 22, 2023
Sarah Kautz, an archaeologist, historical anthropologist, and preservation advocate, will speak on Saturday at 10 a.m. about "best practices and models for historic preservation in the context of Wainscott."
According to the Wainscott Heritage Project, Ms. Kautz believes that "we can achieve growth and prosperity without destroying our shared resources to make way for poorly designed, insensitive redevelopment in our communities."
A question-and-answer session will follow her remarks.
The event is to be held at the Wainscott Chapel on the hamlet's Main Street and is free to attend, though advance sign-up is encouraged.
image: photo by Durell Godfrey
Wainscott Heritage Project Hosts Talk With Sarah Kautz
Wainscott Heritage Project Hosts Talk With Sarah Kautz
Wainscott Heritage Project Hosts Talk With Sarah Kautz
James Lane Post
June 22, 2023
Wainscott Heritage Project will host the first in a series of history talks at Wainscott Chapel (65 Wainscott Main Street) on Saturday, June 24, at 10 AM.
Archaeologist, historical anthropologist, and preservation advocate Sarah Kautz will present Wainscott: Historic Preservation for the 21st Century. She will discuss practices and models for historic preservation in the context of Wainscott, and how these serve to empower communities to preserve and protect cultural and historic resources.
Sarah’s talk will encourage a Q&A and conversation at a municipal and regional level on how, as she states, “we can achieve growth and prosperity without destroying our shared resources to make way for poorly designed, insensitive redevelopment in our communities.”
This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are encouraged.
Walking Through East Hampton’s History
Wainscott: Cherishing Memories of my Former Home in a Non-Hampton Hamlet in the Hamptons
Wainscott Heritage Project Hosts Talk With Sarah Kautz
The East Hampton Star | Christopher Walsh
May 25, 2023
The East Hampton Historical Society and the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society have planned 20 collaborative events, starting next week and running through September.
“Each hamlet has its own unique history,” said Irwin Levy, the Trails Preservation Society’s president, and the events will focus on that. “Combining a hike with a presentation by a like-minded organization has been a winning formula for E.H.T.P.S. Collaborating with the historical society is a logical next step for us that benefits the entire community.”
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Other upcoming events include A Walk-Through Art History: Brooks-Park on June 7, the Wainscott Heritage Project on June 14, a hike of the oceanside community of Beach Hampton in Amagansett on June 28, the Seven Nathaniel Dominys on July 15 in East Hampton, Something Is Fishy in Promised Land on July 22, a tour of the Springs Historic District on Aug. 5, the D’Amico Studio and Archives at Lazy Point on Aug. 12, Gerard Drive in Springs on Aug. 26, and the Eastville Historic District in Sag Harbor on Sept. 6.
Wainscott: Cherishing Memories of my Former Home in a Non-Hampton Hamlet in the Hamptons
Wainscott: Cherishing Memories of my Former Home in a Non-Hampton Hamlet in the Hamptons
Wainscott: Cherishing Memories of my Former Home in a Non-Hampton Hamlet in the Hamptons
Known as "the Savior of Central Park, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is also the author of ten books and is the first person to hold the title of Central Park Administrator. An influential expert in historic landscape preservation, Ms. Barlow Rogers is the founding President of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. She was a Wainscott resident for over five decades. The photo here is of the rustic bridge in the "Glen", the woodland garden she created at her former home on Sayre's Path.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Journal Entry | January 16, 2023
In 1965 I bought a small second home resembling a child’s picture of a house (two parallel vertical lines linked by horizontal line at the top). This kind of one-dimensional sketch, defined by the symmetrical features of the façade – two upper-story and two bottom-story windows with a central vertical rectangle representing the front door while the triangle formed by the gable end of the roof implied an attic. Such would have been an approximate portrait of the farmhouse, which together with its elongated lawn and far-back scrub woods constituted the two-and-a-half-acre property that I purchased in 1965 for $29,000.
2021-2022
The Mission: Save Wainscott's Heritage
Our Hamptons Podcast with Irwin Levy and Esperanza Leon Part II
Our Hamptons Podcast with Irwin Levy and Esperanza Leon Part II
The East Hampton Star | Tom Gogola
August 4, 2022
A year after a group of preservation-minded citizens successfully endeavored to dismantle and preserve the historic Little House on Wainscott Hollow Road, a new organization, the Wainscott Heritage Project, has emerged with an expansive vision and hopes that it will be able to carve out a historic district in the hamlet similar to those in Springs, Amagansett, and Montauk.
Our Hamptons Podcast with Irwin Levy and Esperanza Leon Part II
Our Hamptons Podcast with Irwin Levy and Esperanza Leon Part II
Our Hamptons Podcast with Irwin Levy and Esperanza Leon Part II
Wainscott: An Eastern LI Town, Part II
released July 5, 2022
Esperanza and Irwin continue to delve deeper into Wainscott. The Wainscott Chapel, overlooking Wainscott Pond, and the Osborne homestead. The Wainscott Sewing Society, and their good deeds for the community. The Walker family, Wainscott's first African American family, the Conklin House, and of course, the iconic Georgica Association, one of the most unique enclaves on the east end, or anywhere for that matter.
Our Hamptons Podcast with Irwin Levy and Esperanza Leon Part I
Our Hamptons Podcast with Irwin Levy and Esperanza Leon Part II
Our Hamptons Podcast with Irwin Levy and Esperanza Leon Part I
Wainscott: An Eastern LI Town, Part I
released June 21, 2022
Esperanza explains why she is "all in" as a Wainscott resident, and why she feels it's so important to raise her children there. She then joins Irwin on a virtual walking tour of the hamlet. Stops include the former Wainscott Post Office on Main Street, the general store on Hollow Road, and farms, vistas and viewsheds that have stood the test of time.
Walks with a Message
Wind Farm Survey and Prep Work to Begin
Our Hamptons Podcast with Irwin Levy and Esperanza Leon Part I
The East Hampton Star | Irene Silverman
April 14, 2022
As the new president of the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society, Irwin Levy plans to continue partnering with other organizations to offer walks that delve into history, art, and culture as well as the natural world.
WHP has been pleased to partner with EHTPS on historical hikes through Wainscott. See Events.
Wind Farm Survey and Prep Work to Begin
Wind Farm Survey and Prep Work to Begin
Wind Farm Survey and Prep Work to Begin
The East Hampton Star | Christoper Walsh
January 10, 2022
A ribbon was tied on a beloved tree in Wainscott. Developers of the South Fork Wind farm have said that removal of any trees along the wind farm's underground cable route will [be] subject to review by New York State Department of Public Service staff, the State Department of Environmental Conservation, and East Hampton Town. Photo: Durell Godfrey.
Little House in the Hollow
Wind Farm Survey and Prep Work to Begin
Wind Farm Survey and Prep Work to Begin
Hamptons Cottages & Gardens | Liza N. Burby
August 15, 2021
In Wainscott, a piece of the East End's agricultural past has just been saved from the wrecking ball. Built in the 1920s on the grounds of the Strong Family potato farm on Wainscott Hollow Road, a 224-square-foot shingled cottage long known as the "Little House" has narrowly escaped demolition, thanks to the preservation efforts led by Esperanza Leon, a member of East Hampton Town's Architectural Review Board. The single-room structure, which once housed migrant workers from the South, had sat neglected since the 1980s, but Leon caught wind that new owners of the farm property had plans to tear it down in May, so she galvanized like-minded locals, "to preserve this reminder of Wainscott's farming history," she says, "as well as the equally neglected history of its occupants."
Big push by preservationists saves Wainscott’s “Little House”
Big push by preservationists saves Wainscott’s “Little House”
Big push by preservationists saves Wainscott’s “Little House”
The Real Deal | Dennis Lynch
July 2, 2021
Wainscott’s “Little House” has been carefully dismantled after a successful push from preservationists to save the 100-year-old shack. The 400-square-foot structure sat on a piece of land once used as farmland by the Strong family, according to the Southampton Press, which first reported the news.
Tiny Piece of Wainscott Farm History Saved
Big push by preservationists saves Wainscott’s “Little House”
Big push by preservationists saves Wainscott’s “Little House”
The East Hampton Star | Jon Kuperschmid
July 1, 2021
"I have been driving past that building for decades. It has always been there," said Esperanza Leon, referring to a dilapidated little shack in Wainscott known as the Little House, which was built in the 1920s to house migrant workers.
‘The Little House’ Is Saved
Big push by preservationists saves Wainscott’s “Little House”
As ‘Little House’ Demolition Looms, Scramble To Save Laborer Home
27east.com | Michael Wright
June 30, 2021
“The Little House” in Wainscott met both of its possible fates this week: it was torn down, but it was also saved.
As ‘Little House’ Demolition Looms, Scramble To Save Laborer Home
Call To Save Wainscott ‘Little House’ Before It’s Replaced By A Big House
As ‘Little House’ Demolition Looms, Scramble To Save Laborer Home
27east.com | Michael Wright
June 16, 2021
The effort to try to save a tiny ramshackle former home on a Wainscott farm before it is torn down to make way for development has entered its final desperate days and those leading the charge are scrambling for last-minute avenues to get the structure shored up and relocated.
East Hampton rushes to save “historic” shack before project starts
Call To Save Wainscott ‘Little House’ Before It’s Replaced By A Big House
Call To Save Wainscott ‘Little House’ Before It’s Replaced By A Big House
The Real Deal | Dennis Lynch
April 9, 2021
A group of East Hampton residents and town officials hope to rescue a 400-square-foot farm shack sitting on a recently sold piece of Strong family farm land, according to the Southampton Press.
Call To Save Wainscott ‘Little House’ Before It’s Replaced By A Big House
Call To Save Wainscott ‘Little House’ Before It’s Replaced By A Big House
Call To Save Wainscott ‘Little House’ Before It’s Replaced By A Big House
27east.com | Michael Wright
April 5, 2021
For the better part of a century, the migrant farm workers who came up from the South to work for the Strong family’s rolling acres of fields during the growing season lived in a small shack a few feet away from the Strongs’ main potato barn on Wainscott Hollow Road.