Richard H. Jenrette Foundation

Richard H. Jenrette Foundation Formerly Classical American Homes Preservation Trust
Historic Preservation and Education
www.jenrette.org

Formerly Classical American Homes Preservation Trust
Please visit our website for more information: www.classicalamericanhomes.org

Our Mailing Address:
PO Box 150
Hillsborough, NC 27278

The first of many fond memories from Saturday night when Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation celebrated Edgewater’s 200t...
06/15/2026

The first of many fond memories from Saturday night when Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation celebrated Edgewater’s 200th birthday! Thank you to our sponsors Alice and Tom Tisch, the Thomas S. Keenan Trust, the Randleigh Foundation, Rachel O. Bernheim, Art of Building, Dave’s Tree Service, Friends of Donald Fagan, Hudson Wine Merchants, Michelle and Timothy Gokey, New Dimension Construction, Samantha Haspel, and our anonymous donors (you know who you are) for supporting this effort.

06/14/2026

Happy Birthday, Edgewater!

The little post office that could—and will! Hours before Edgewater’s big 200th, Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation met ...
06/13/2026

The little post office that could—and will! Hours before Edgewater’s big 200th, Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation met with architect Steven W. Spandle from Steven W. Spandle Architect and contractor Danny Miller from Miller Building Group to talk about our plans to transform the Barrytown Post Office into an education center. How? Very carefully—first raising it up for a new foundation, and then setting it back down to get to work on its restoration. We can’t wait to get started! Join the effort and learn more at jenrette.org

Shout out to American College of the Building Arts students who joined us for the meeting.

To our friends joining us at Edgewater tonight: Parking for the Edgewater 200th Birthday Celebration is at the Bard Coll...
06/13/2026

To our friends joining us at Edgewater tonight: Parking for the Edgewater 200th Birthday Celebration is at the Bard College Massena Campus. Set your navigation to 132 Seminary Dr., Barrytown, NY.

Shuttles will run continuously to get you to the party, and throughout the night.

Don’t be fashionably late! You definitely want to arrive by 6pm for the fun. 🤠🤠🤠

In advance of the Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation celebration of the 200th anniversary of Edgewater in Barrytown, Ne...
06/13/2026

In advance of the Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation celebration of the 200th anniversary of Edgewater in Barrytown, New York, TODAY, Director of Historic Preservation Will Hamilton led an educational tour of a portion of the Hudson Valley for three students from American College of the Building Arts and their professor, Steve Kester, Chair of the Plaster Department.

The tour provided valuable context and inspiration ahead of the Edgewater bicentennial celebration, where the students and Professor Kester will demonstrate their respective trades and engage visitors in the traditional building crafts that play a vital role in historic preservation.
The group visited the Hudson Maritime Museum, Olana Historic Site, and the historic communities of Woodstock and Bearsville, exploring themes of preservation, craftsmanship, architecture, and cultural landscapes. Participating students included Rowan Fenhoff (decorative finishes), Jacob Curtis (stone masonry), and Thomas Dezii (architectural carpentry).

We had such a great tour and porchside refreshments at Montgomery Place Bard yesterday with our special guests from the ...
06/12/2026

We had such a great tour and porchside refreshments at Montgomery Place Bard yesterday with our special guests from the Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation convening on historic and cultural landscapes. Special thanks to our friends and colleagues Kathy McManus, Amy Parrella, and Laurie Dahlberg—who gave us such a warm welcome. (It was also literally warm yesterday, too!)

Today’s convening at Edgewater brought together a remarkable range of perspectives—from archival research and field arch...
06/11/2026

Today’s convening at Edgewater brought together a remarkable range of perspectives—from archival research and field archaeology to design practice, museum interpretation, preservation policy, and community engagement.

Together, participants considered how cultural landscapes are studied, taught, and communicated to the public. Conversations challenged disciplinary boundaries, tested assumptions, and opened new possibilities for collaboration across fields.

The day concluded with renewed momentum: new partnerships, new questions, and a shared commitment to understanding landscapes as dynamic cultural texts that connect past, present, and future.

Networks are infrastructure. Conversation is methodology. And the work continues.

Today at Edgewater, Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation convened scholars, practitioners, preservationists, designers, a...
06/11/2026

Today at Edgewater, Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation convened scholars, practitioners, preservationists, designers, archaeologists, educators, and nonprofit leaders to explore a deceptively simple question: What do we mean when we talk about historic and cultural landscapes? Our discussion so far, inaugurated yesterday by The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s Charles Birnbaum, has examined whether the definitions we have inherited still serve the places we seek to understand and steward. We explored how landscapes are taught, how they are interpreted, and whether the field needs a more unified vocabulary—or whether its strength lies in its diversity of approaches.

What is emerging is not consensus, but something more valuable: critical frictions that drive questions about the future of landscape, preservation, research, and education.

More to come! Stay tuned.

🎟️ Just a few tickets left to celebrate Edgewater’s 200th birthday this Saturday, June 13. Head over to jenrette.org to ...
06/09/2026

🎟️ Just a few tickets left to celebrate Edgewater’s 200th birthday this Saturday, June 13. Head over to jenrette.org to secure your spot for fireworks, fun, and a few surprise performances!

All proceeds go to restoring the historic Barrytown Post Office. The excited to be working with to transform this once-thriving community hub into an educational space!

It’s a remarkable thing to see coverage of historic trades in the media—especially when it’s on the front page of the . ...
06/07/2026

It’s a remarkable thing to see coverage of historic trades in the media—especially when it’s on the front page of the . Talent and labor, materials and durability, tradition and value, craft and art—all the main lines of inquiry are there, and there are some amazing photographs by throughout the piece. You might not be surprised to learn that the views craft and historic trades as essential to the future of historic preservation, not merely as supporting activities. Preserving historic buildings depends on strengthening the pipeline of skilled craftspeople, expanding trades training, and integrating hands-on craft knowledge into preservation education and workforce development.

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