Alan Strauber
@alanstrauber.bsky.social
SUNY Westchester Historic Preservation Program Coordinator, Architectural Historian, Arch & US Hist Prof, Photographer, Percussionist, & American Staffordshire Terrier Dad - Hudson Valley, NY (I me me mine) alanstrauber.com
Historic Preservationists finally stand up to Trump www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Preservationists sue Trump over plans to paint Eisenhower building
The complaint alleges Trump’s plan would ‘permanently alter one of the most architecturally significant and historic structures in the Nation’s Capital’
www.washingtonpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Historic Preservationists finally stand up to Trump www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This is the cornet that Louis Armstrong played while at the Colored Waifs Home for Boys in New Orleans after his arrest at 11 for firing a gun on New Years Eve, 1912. New Orleans Jazz Museum #music #jazz #Photography #NOLA
photo (c) Alan Strauber - taken with my Leica D-Lux 8 digital camera
photo (c) Alan Strauber - taken with my Leica D-Lux 8 digital camera
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This is the cornet that Louis Armstrong played while at the Colored Waifs Home for Boys in New Orleans after his arrest at 11 for firing a gun on New Years Eve, 1912. New Orleans Jazz Museum #music #jazz #Photography #NOLA
photo (c) Alan Strauber - taken with my Leica D-Lux 8 digital camera
photo (c) Alan Strauber - taken with my Leica D-Lux 8 digital camera
As a historic preservationist, historian and American human being I am disgusted and feel physically ill over this. Plus it's symbolic of what Donald Trump is doing to our country.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
As a historic preservationist, historian and American human being I am disgusted and feel physically ill over this. Plus it's symbolic of what Donald Trump is doing to our country.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
Eiffel Tower being struck by lightning - Gabriel Loppe', photographer, 1902. He gifted the print to Gustav Eiffel whose family later presented it to the Musee D'Orsay, Paris.
September 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Eiffel Tower being struck by lightning - Gabriel Loppe', photographer, 1902. He gifted the print to Gustav Eiffel whose family later presented it to the Musee D'Orsay, Paris.
Happy 99th birthday today to the iconic John Coltrane
September 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Happy 99th birthday today to the iconic John Coltrane
I'm please to share that Oxford Univ Press published my Warren & Wetmore article this week (I just found out) in their Grove Art Online art & architecture encyclopedia. I have a contract for a second, on landscape theorist AJ Downing - to be published late this year/early next. Kind of exciting!
September 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I'm please to share that Oxford Univ Press published my Warren & Wetmore article this week (I just found out) in their Grove Art Online art & architecture encyclopedia. I have a contract for a second, on landscape theorist AJ Downing - to be published late this year/early next. Kind of exciting!
@realDonaldTrump just loves to pick fights to try to prove his measly manhood & he's got sycophants like Stephen Miller around him trying to do the same www.lemonde.fr/en/european-...
EU defends its digital rules as 'sovereign right' after Trump tariff threat
Without explicitly naming the European Union, Trump on Monday threatened fresh tariffs on countries with regulations that sought to 'harm' American technology.
www.lemonde.fr
August 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
@realDonaldTrump just loves to pick fights to try to prove his measly manhood & he's got sycophants like Stephen Miller around him trying to do the same www.lemonde.fr/en/european-...
Why is it that I always feel like I'm about to jump off a diving board? How am I supposed to settle in and get old if I always feel that way?
August 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Why is it that I always feel like I'm about to jump off a diving board? How am I supposed to settle in and get old if I always feel that way?
Research this week at Harvard
August 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Research this week at Harvard
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Covered slip no. 3 ("3 Slip") at #Chatham Historic Dockyard, a cathedral of wood. Built in 1838, it was the largest wide span timber structure in Europe at the time. This is taken from the mezzanine, which was added in 1904.
📷 My own. #Woodensday #Kent #RoyalNay
📷 My own. #Woodensday #Kent #RoyalNay
August 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Covered slip no. 3 ("3 Slip") at #Chatham Historic Dockyard, a cathedral of wood. Built in 1838, it was the largest wide span timber structure in Europe at the time. This is taken from the mezzanine, which was added in 1904.
📷 My own. #Woodensday #Kent #RoyalNay
📷 My own. #Woodensday #Kent #RoyalNay
Copley Plaza Hotel - Boston, MA - Lobby Hallway - H. J. Hardenbergh, architect, 1912. Also designed The Plaza Hotel, Dakota Apartments and more in NYC. Considered by many to be the most luxurious hotel in Boston and certainly one of the most historic.
photo (c) Alan Strauber
photo (c) Alan Strauber
August 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Copley Plaza Hotel - Boston, MA - Lobby Hallway - H. J. Hardenbergh, architect, 1912. Also designed The Plaza Hotel, Dakota Apartments and more in NYC. Considered by many to be the most luxurious hotel in Boston and certainly one of the most historic.
photo (c) Alan Strauber
photo (c) Alan Strauber
Sunday afternoon at Breezy Hill
August 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Sunday afternoon at Breezy Hill
A few years back and a few lbs heavier
August 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A few years back and a few lbs heavier
30 Rockefeller Center (originally RCA Building), NYC - Lobby Flooring - Raymond Hood architect, building completed 1933.
photo (c) Alan Strauber
photo (c) Alan Strauber
August 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
30 Rockefeller Center (originally RCA Building), NYC - Lobby Flooring - Raymond Hood architect, building completed 1933.
photo (c) Alan Strauber
photo (c) Alan Strauber
A small garlic harvest for pasta dinner
July 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A small garlic harvest for pasta dinner
Eiffel Tower Etude 3
photo (c) Alan Strauber
photo (c) Alan Strauber
July 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Eiffel Tower Etude 3
photo (c) Alan Strauber
photo (c) Alan Strauber
I will no longer watch @cbsnews.com or anything whatsoever on CBS
July 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I will no longer watch @cbsnews.com or anything whatsoever on CBS
Onion Soup at Beekman Arms in Rhinebeck was a good idea
July 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Onion Soup at Beekman Arms in Rhinebeck was a good idea
HISTORIC PRESERVATION CERTIFICATE PROGRAM - Registration now open!! Based at Westchester Community College - Peekskill, NY Center for the Digital Arts. Remote courses start Sept 2025. Contact Alan Strauber [email protected] for more information - contact Carmen Marrinen 914 606 7300 for registration
July 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
HISTORIC PRESERVATION CERTIFICATE PROGRAM - Registration now open!! Based at Westchester Community College - Peekskill, NY Center for the Digital Arts. Remote courses start Sept 2025. Contact Alan Strauber [email protected] for more information - contact Carmen Marrinen 914 606 7300 for registration
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Architects don’t just design for humans. They design, intentionally or not, for all of the nonhuman species affected by human-built structures. Western architecture has long been a driver of ecological destruction: How can we build to accommodate other species as cohabitants of a shared environment?
Animal Architecture: In Conversation
An animal studies scholar talks with an architect and an architecture writer about designing for, and with, nonhuman species.
placesjournal.org
July 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Architects don’t just design for humans. They design, intentionally or not, for all of the nonhuman species affected by human-built structures. Western architecture has long been a driver of ecological destruction: How can we build to accommodate other species as cohabitants of a shared environment?
sad - rip www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...
David Gergen, Adviser to Presidents and Political Commentator, Dies at 83
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
sad - rip www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...
An embarrassment for Jews and Americans - I'm both. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel peace prize at White House meeting
US leader upbeat on Gaza ceasefire prospects but does not share any additional details on preparations
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
An embarrassment for Jews and Americans - I'm both. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Good Monday Morning from Breezy Hill
July 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Good Monday Morning from Breezy Hill