Lucy Moses Award: 21 Stuyvesant Street

Continuing a trend of recent years, two small-scale projects we worked on won Lucy Moses awards this year. First, the Stuyvesant-Fish House at 21 Stuyvesant Street, an 1804 house that was only the seventh building in NYC designated as a landmark after the Landmarks Preservation Commission was created in 1965. Our work was initially only the repair of the damaged brownstone stoop, but in the end also included repair of a rotted timber beneath the entry threshold, which required careful work to avoid disturbing the door and surround, and repairs to the sloped roof and dormer framing. As always, we appreciate the effort that the Landmarks Conservancy puts in to select the award winners and run the event. Our congratulations to our team – especially Scott Henson of Henson Architecture and Mary Jablonski of Jablonski Building Conservation – and to the OSE staff who worked on the project, including Marie Ennis, Mona Abdelfatah, Ellen Key, and former interns Eleni Retzepis and Delphine…