[MassHistPres] The loss of an esteemed colleague

[Chris Skelly]

> From: "Zimmerman Sally" <szimmerman at historicnewengland.org
>
>> Candace Jenkins, architectural historian and historic preservation  
>> consultant, died suddenly at her home in Belmont on Thursday, April  
>> 29, 2010.  She was 59 years old.  Ms. Jenkins leaves her beloved  
>> husband, Ted Gartland, her father, Richard Jenkins of Yarmouthport,  
>> her dog, Maggie, and many, many friends. She was predeceased by her  
>> mother, Doris (Emery) Jenkins.
>>
>> Ms. Jenkins was born in Brockton, Mass., graduated from high school  
>> in Duxbury, and was a graduate of Smith College.  She held an M.A.   
>> in preservation studies from Boston University, receiving one of  
>> the first degrees conferred. Ms. Jenkins began her career at the  
>> Massachusetts Historical Commission, where she briefly managed  
>> grants, but quickly moved on to directing the National Register of  
>> Historic Places program for Massachusetts and working on a wide  
>> variety of preservation efforts statewide.  She left the  
>> Massachusetts Historical Commission in 1984 to become a private  
>> preservation consultant.
>>
>> Her work as a consultant covered almost every aspect of  
>> architectural history and historic preservation in Massachusetts,  
>> but focused on several major areas, including the history and reuse  
>> of state hospital complexes and preservation master planning for,  
>> among others, the Charles River Basin, the Worcester public  
>> schools, the Watertown Arsenal, and McLean Hospital. In addition,  
>> Ms. Jenkins researched and wrote historic structures reports for  
>> numerous landmark public and private buildings, including U.S.  
>> customs houses and post offices from Maine to Oklahoma, the Union  
>> Station in Worcester, and the Old Manse in Concord.  She also  
>> prepared preservation plans for MIT and Boston University, and more  
>> thoroughly researched and beautifully written National Register  
>> nominations than we can count.  She was the author of Between the  
>> Forest and the Bay: A History of West Falmouth as revealed in Its  
>> Historic Buildings and Landscapes.
>>
>> Candy was passionate about science fiction, rock music, her dogs,  
>> Cape Cod, and her husband Ted, who made her feel safe, strong and  
>> very happy.  She was a great lover of nature—birds, animals, and a 
>> ll open spaces. She celebrated her 40th birthday trekking in Nepal 
>> , embracing the dust and confusion of ancient market cities and th 
>> e isolation of frozen camp sites at 12,000 feet. Casual conversati 
>> on with her seatmate on the flight to Kathmandu revealed him to be 
>>  Sir Edmund Hillary, the famed mountaineer. She studied print-maki 
>> ng with artist Leonard Baskin, spent a year as a ski bum before gr 
>> aduate school, and learned to love the jazz piano of Dave McKenna  
>> when she worked in high school at the Chatham Bars Inn. When she b 
>> rought friends to hear him play at the Copley Plaza, he always san 
>> g the 1940s classic Johnny Mercer love song, "Candy," just for her 
>> . A long-time resident of Belmont, Ms. Jenkins restored her small  
>> Federal house and filled the yard with lush gardens.
>>
>> Ms. Jenkins will be remembered by her friends and colleagues for  
>> her thorough-going professionalism, her wide-ranging knowledge of  
>> architectural history, her grasp of the nuances in the historical  
>> landscape, her sense of justice and integrity, the shining loyalty  
>> of her friendship, and the deep care and concern she bestowed on  
>> her parents and her friends.  Her untimely passing leaves a  
>> profound gap in our lives and the preservation community.
>>
>> Friends are invited to attend a service commemorating her life on  
>> Saturday, May 15 at 2 pm at the Carriage House of the Codman  
>> Estate, Codman Road, Lincoln, Mass. Donations in lieu of flowers  
>> can be made in Candy’s memory to the World Wildlife Fund, www.worldwildlife.o 
>> rg.
>>
>>
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>>
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