Stephen Lash Receives Special Lucy G. Moses Award
Conservancy Chair Stuart Siegel, left, Stephen Lash, longtime Conservancy Board member and former Chair, and Joseph Fishman of the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund
Stephen Lash, a longtime Conservancy Board member and former Chair, received a special Lucy G. Moses Award at the Conservancy’s May 20 Board Meeting.
Mr. Lash was a great friend of the late Mrs. Moses and encouraged her to endow the annual awards, which honor excellence in preservation projects, individual preservation leaders, and non-profit organizations.
The 20th presentation of the coveted awards was held in April at the Museum of Natural History with more than 400 persons in attendance.
Joseph Fishman, of the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, was also at the Board Meeting to help Conservancy Chair Stuart Siegel present the award.
Mr. Lash recalled how important Lucy Moses, an acclaimed philanthropist, was in his life. He recalled that Mrs. Moses was very close to his wife’s family and he had to pass muster with Mrs. Moses before he could get married.
Through the years, Moses Awards have gone to projects such as the restoration of Radio City Music Hall, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Empire State Building as well as to private residences and buildings housing religious and non-profit institutions. They have honored outstanding interior and exterior restoration work, adaptive reuse, and new construction within historic districts. Individual awardees have included Joan K. Davidson, Vincent Scully, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Kent Barwick and, most recently, noted engineer Robert Silman.
Learn more about the Moses Awards here.
