AGELESS KITTY CARLISLE HART
RECEIVED AWARD FOR PRESERVATION
Historic Districts Council Honored Hart as Landmarks
Lion on
December 1, 2003
New York, NY – The Historic Districts Council,
the only citywide organization dedicated to preserving New York's
historic neighborhoods, will presented its 15th Annual Landmarks
Lion Award to singer, actress and enthusiastic preservationist
Kitty Carlisle Hart at an award ceremony and benefit dinner on
Monday,
December 1st at 6:30 pm. The event will took place at Laura Belle
at 120 West 43rd Street between
Avenue of the Americas and Broadway in Manhattan.
Honorary co-chairs of the Landmarks Lion 2003
event are Mrs. Vincent Astor, State Senator John J. Marchi and
Mr. Tony Randall.
Since 1990, the Historic Districts Council has
presented its Lion Award to an individual who has “demonstrated
unusual devotion to protecting landmarks and historic districts
in New York City.” This year, HDC celebrates Kitty Carlisle
Hart, a longtime champion of preservation and cultural organizations
across New York State. While chair of the New York State Council
on the Arts (NYSCA) from 1976 to 1996, Mrs. Hart directed many
millions of dollars in support to preservation projects from the
Niagara Frontier to Staten Island. Through her strong advocacy
under four governors, during economic good times and bad, she
fought to keep historic preservation as a core program of NYSCA,
the only arts council in America that provides such funding. In
addition to her twenty-year stewardship of NYSCA, Mrs. Hart supports
the cultural life of New York City by actively serving on the
boards of such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art
and the Museum of Modern Art.
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