HSoftheNYCourts Podcast

Historical Society of the NY Courts

The Historical Society of the New York Courts Podcast series shines a light on New York’s legal history through the perspective of the State’s courts.

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HSoftheNYCourts Podcast

Episodes (30)

Mar 4th Bard's Acts: Pondering New York's "Grandfather of Landmarks" — Podcast #30
Sep 4, 2025 The 1876 Election: Samuel Jones Tilden v. Rutherford B. Hayes — Podcast #29
Jul 14, 2025 Chatting with the Authors of Judicial Notice: Buffalo v. Rochester: The Judge and the Anarchist at the Dawn of the 20th Century — Podcast #28

HSoftheNYCourts Podcast

Mar 4, 2026
48¼ minutes
66 MB

At his death, the 96 year-old Albert Sprague Bard had occupied the landmarked Broad Exchange Building for six decades after becoming the structure's very first tenant. Within those hallowed walls, Bard hatched statewide legislation known as the "Bard Act" which gave New York's communities the legal right to regulate aesthetics — and crucially, protect historic buildings and neighborhoods through New York City's Landmarks Law. In this special episode of Wrecking Ball, author and historian Anthony C. Wood rejoins host Adrian Untermyer to discuss the ever-persistent and oft-eccentric Bard as portrayed in Wood's new biography, Servant of Beauty: Landmarks, Secret Lo...

HSoftheNYCourts Podcast

Bard's Acts: Pondering New York's "Grandfather of Landmarks" — Podcast #30

Historical Society of the NY Courts

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