Annual Holiday Ornament Reception Featuring the
GATES TO FOREST HILL CEMETERY

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Child's Chapel at Forest Hill
2201 Oneida Street
Utica, NY

1:00 - 3:00 pm
free and open to the public

Ornaments will be available for purchase at the event

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Annual Members Meeting and Awards Banquet

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Pier's & Blake Restaurant, in the former Doyle Hardware building
330 Main Street
Utica, NY

6:00 - 9:30 pm
$25 per person (includes dinner, tax and gratuity)

R.S.V.P. by check to Landmarks Society 1124 State Street, Utica, NY 13502
Deadline for reservations is November 14

 

2011 Award of Merit Winners:
Tracy Mills for The New Uptown Theatre :: 2014 Genesee Street, Utica

Orin & Kim Domenico for Domenico’s Café + The Other Side :: 2011 Genesee Street, Utica

David & Regina Bonacci for the office & residence at 251-253 Bleecker Street, Utica (former Endangered Building)

St. Joseph’s / St. Patrick’s Catholic Church for their restoration project :: 702 Columbia Street, Utica

The residence at 1001 Miller Street (former Endangered Building)

Stuart Bannatyne & Vincent Ficchi for Pier’s & Blake in the former Doyle Hardware building :: 330 Main Street, Utica

Distinguished Service Award / Lifetime Achievement Award :: Past President, Professor Rand Carter

Above & Beyond the Call of Duty (ABCD) Award Winners :: To be announced at the award ceremony

Proposed Slate of Officers and Trustees
Officers: One Year Terms
• Michael Bosak, President
• Pamela Jardieu-Aderman, Vice President
• Lisa Lemieux, Recording Secretary
• Regina Bonacci, Membership/Corresponding Secretary
• Bart Rasmus, Treasurer

Trustees: Terms ending in 2014 (Three year terms)
• Michael Bosak
• Karen Day
• Ron Draper
• Pamela Jardieu-Aderman
• Lisa Lemieux
• Philip Kernan
• Christopher Burns
• Vincent Rossi, Jr. (two year term ending 2013)

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Annual Holiday Open House Tour

Saturday, December 10, 2011

18 Oxford Road
New Hartford, NY

10:00 am - 4:00 pm / guided tours run periodically

$10.00 / per person at the door

Light refreshments will be served

Professional piano playing featuring Margaret Fusco

R.S.V.P. by check to Landmarks Society 1124 State Street, Utica, NY 13502

 

Join Landmarks as we tour the former Samuel Hicks mansion, c 1826. Hicks came to New Hartford about 1804 and was manager of the Eagle Mills near Clayville. The mansion for many years was the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lucinda Hicks McFarland, a prominent member of Oneida Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.

The house was patterned after the style of several mansions on Genesee Street in Utica, and is a splendid example of "pure Georgian architecture". It boasts a special feature—the front doorway is considered to be perfectly proportioned!

When Hicks decided to build a home, he first had the lumber seasoned for two years. The roof was built with parapet walks with railings between. The bricks came from the Wilcox settlement where Abel Wilcox & Son conducted a brickyard.

All of the nails, bolts and hardware are handmade, the nails being the product of John Richardson. The stone water-table, window caps, sills, arch and supports for the front door and other stone works, were made by Hyde, Allen and Joslin of Utica.

The old English type locks were acquired from the Benedict and Roby firm of Utica. The lock on the front door is 9 by 14 inches in size and weighs about four pounds. The key for the lock is about five inches long, hardly the size to carry around on a pocket-key ring.

Original hand-blown glass may be observed in the panels of the front door. The hand rail of the staircase was made from 30 mahogany planks. There are occasional steel spindles. The mantels and woodwork are also hand-made. The jambs of the mantels are of black Italian marble. The mantel in the room at left of the front entrance is said to be an exact facsimile of one carved in stone at the Kenilworth Castle in a room occupied by King Henry VIII.

Dave and Elaine Trevisani have owned the mansion since 1998, when they purchased it from Dr. Clark and his wife Sally. The Trevisani’s have graciously agreed to open their magnificent historic home to Landmarkers and their guests to view this architectural gem all decorated for the Christmas season.