[MassHistPres] The loss of an esteemed colleague

[Zimmerman Sally]

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 all open spaces. She
celebrated her 40th birthday trekking in Nepal, embracing the dust and
confusion of ancient market cities and the isolation of frozen camp
sites at 12,000 feet. Casual conversation with her seatmate on the
flight to Kathmandu revealed him to be Sir Edmund Hillary, the famed
mountaineer. She studied print-making with artist Leonard Baskin, spent
a year as a ski bum before graduate school, and learned to love the jazz
piano of Dave McKenna when she worked in high school at the Chatham Bars
Inn. When she brought friends to hear him play at the Copley Plaza, he
always sang 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.org.
 




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