The Board finally folded and agreed to recognize the Historic District. Kimberly Lloyd and her cronies spent months trying to bulldoze our history, but we forced them to back down. Keep your eyes open because we are not finished holding them accountable for the condition of these buildings.
February 16, 2014
Tell the LU Board of Trustees to Consider the Proposed Lincoln University Historic District!
Final supporters
Dear distinguished alumni and friends of Lincoln University,
A few months back you let your voices overwhelmingly be heard to STOP the planned demolition of Azikiwe-Nkrumah Hall, one of our university's oldest historic buildings.
You helped us stop the questionable judgment then and we need your voices to be heard again. A Lincoln University Master Campus Plan dated October 2013 now adds Houston Hall, Cresson Hall, Bond House, McRary Hall, Ashmun Hall and Frederick Douglass Hall to the list of buildings to be demolished.
A group of experienced and concerned alumni, the Lincoln University Historic Initiative (LUHI), have been working these past several months with the Commonwealth of PA and supportive elected officials, as well as Friends of Lincoln Village historic preservation group, to have our 15 historic buildings recognized on the National Register of Historic Places. Houston Hall, Cresson Hall and Bond House, slated for demolition, are historic buildings included in the proposed Lincoln University Historic District.
LUHI's vision is to develop an economically viable Lincoln University Historic District that will not only attract visitors, scholars, school groups, business and employment to the campus/region, but will also qualify for preservation grants for much needed repairs to some of the buildings.
We sent a proposal to the Board of Trustees and the Chair, Ms. Kimberly Lloyd has chosen to set it aside and not bring it before the Board or have it considered the Buildings and Property Committee. You can read a copy of the LUHI proposal at http://www.aalupa.org/lincoln-university-heritage-initiative/
If you have not already done so by email, please sign this petition to register your desire to have Ms. Lloyd bring this matter before the Board of Trustees immediately.
Please, sign below (or on the right) to tell the Lincoln University Board of Trustees to consider the LUHI proposal. Thank you!
Updates
November 29, 2013
The Board of Trustees continues to bury our proposal while they quietly plot the demolition of our history. Kimberly Lloyd thinks she can wait us out by ignoring our demands but she is wrong. We are currently coordinating with state officials to force their hand and save these buildings from the wrecking ball.
Reached 100 supporters
November 29, 2013
65 Comments
How many historic buildings on Princeton's campus are administrators there planning to raize? How many on Harvard's or Yale's campus? I submit it would be heresy for administrators there to contemplate such a move. But at Lincoln it's OK??
History is within those very buildings you are attempting to destroy. You have legends that have come from your campus who have changed the nation, views, and lives of their generations and those of us that have followed, which includes my parents, especially my father.
I attended Lincoln (first!), then transferred. My great grandfather, Reverend George R. Brabham, graduated LU in 1894. Our family wholeheartedly supports designation of the Lincoln University Historic District!
These buildings are truly historic in nature and add to the character, history and legacy of the nation's first HBCU. Therefore, they should be added to the National Register of Historic Places and not be demolished.
Unfortunately, this is an often repeated mistake at our HBCU's. The demolition of these historic buildings and the lack of historical education has contributed to the mailaise and misunderstanding of our history in general in America. Let's reverse this process. -Earl L. Ijames, Curator NC Museum of History
We can't destroy our own history, as we sit and rise on the shoulders of some great elders
Save our history!
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The Board finally folded and agreed to recognize the Historic District. Kimberly Lloyd and her cronies spent months trying to bulldoze our history, but we forced them to back down. Keep your eyes open because we are not finished holding them accountable for the condition of these buildings.
February 16, 2014
Tell the LU Board of Trustees to Consider the Proposed Lincoln University Historic District!
Final supporters
Dear distinguished alumni and friends of Lincoln University,
A few months back you let your voices overwhelmingly be heard to STOP the planned demolition of Azikiwe-Nkrumah Hall, one of our university's oldest historic buildings.
You helped us stop the questionable judgment then and we need your voices to be heard again. A Lincoln University Master Campus Plan dated October 2013 now adds Houston Hall, Cresson Hall, Bond House, McRary Hall, Ashmun Hall and Frederick Douglass Hall to the list of buildings to be demolished.
A group of experienced and concerned alumni, the Lincoln University Historic Initiative (LUHI), have been working these past several months with the Commonwealth of PA and supportive elected officials, as well as Friends of Lincoln Village historic preservation group, to have our 15 historic buildings recognized on the National Register of Historic Places. Houston Hall, Cresson Hall and Bond House, slated for demolition, are historic buildings included in the proposed Lincoln University Historic District.
LUHI's vision is to develop an economically viable Lincoln University Historic District that will not only attract visitors, scholars, school groups, business and employment to the campus/region, but will also qualify for preservation grants for much needed repairs to some of the buildings.
We sent a proposal to the Board of Trustees and the Chair, Ms. Kimberly Lloyd has chosen to set it aside and not bring it before the Board or have it considered the Buildings and Property Committee. You can read a copy of the LUHI proposal at http://www.aalupa.org/lincoln-university-heritage-initiative/
If you have not already done so by email, please sign this petition to register your desire to have Ms. Lloyd bring this matter before the Board of Trustees immediately.
Please, sign below (or on the right) to tell the Lincoln University Board of Trustees to consider the LUHI proposal. Thank you!
Updates
November 29, 2013
The Board of Trustees continues to bury our proposal while they quietly plot the demolition of our history. Kimberly Lloyd thinks she can wait us out by ignoring our demands but she is wrong. We are currently coordinating with state officials to force their hand and save these buildings from the wrecking ball.
Reached 100 supporters
November 29, 2013
65 Comments
I resided at Cresson Hall my junior and Senior year. I believe we should try to preserve and thru restoration maintain our heritage that is spoken to us thru these buildings. Giving some history to our future LU Alums!
How many historic buildings on Princeton's campus are administrators there planning to raize? How many on Harvard's or Yale's campus? I submit it would be heresy for administrators there to contemplate such a move. But at Lincoln it's OK??
History is within those very buildings you are attempting to destroy. You have legends that have come from your campus who have changed the nation, views, and lives of their generations and those of us that have followed, which includes my parents, especially my father.
I attended Lincoln (first!), then transferred. My great grandfather, Reverend George R. Brabham, graduated LU in 1894. Our family wholeheartedly supports designation of the Lincoln University Historic District!
These buildings are truly historic in nature and add to the character, history and legacy of the nation's first HBCU. Therefore, they should be added to the National Register of Historic Places and not be demolished.
Unfortunately, this is an often repeated mistake at our HBCU's. The demolition of these historic buildings and the lack of historical education has contributed to the mailaise and misunderstanding of our history in general in America. Let's reverse this process. -Earl L. Ijames, Curator NC Museum of History
We can't destroy our own history, as we sit and rise on the shoulders of some great elders
Save our history!
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I resided at Cresson Hall my junior and Senior year. I believe we should try to preserve and thru restoration maintain our heritage that is spoken to us thru these buildings. Giving some history to our future LU Alums!