Priority Preservation Campaign

In September 2019, at our request, our friends at Landmarks Illinois worked with award-winning Wiss, Janney, Elstner engineering firm to do a top to bottom, ballroom to basement assessment of the building to determine immediate or urgent needs. What they found was that despite years of deferred maintenance, the building was in surprisingly solid shape.

The WJE report provided maintenance or stabilization priorities in three stages. Our plan is to use that report as a road map forward, while staying true to our mission to preserve and protect the building, regardless of what its ultimate public use might become.

Your pledge or donation today will help ensure the building gets the attention it needs now in order to avoid more costly repairs or maintenance from being necessary in the future. Importantly, the difference your pledge or donation makes won’t be contingent on the success of any one plan over another in the City of Evanston’s Request for Proposal outcome in February 2020.

Friends of Harley Clarke is a U.S. 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization incorporated in the state of Illinois. Donations are tax-deductible. Our federal tax ID # is 83-2913873.