Carolyn Kent
| Carolyn Kent | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Carolyn Wade Cassady Kent July 20, 1935 Rochester, New York |
| Died | August 22, 2009 (aged 74) New York, New York United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Sarah Lawrence College, Oxford University, Columbia University |
| Occupation | Historical preservationist and activist |
| Organization | Manhattan Community Board 9, Parks and Landmarks Committee (founder), Morningside Heights Historic District Committee (co-founder). Renaissance English Text Society (Secretary) |
| Spouse(s) | Edward Miles Allen Kent (1957–2009) |
| Children | Cassady Kent (son), Hannah Kent (daughter), Sarah Kent (daughter) |
| Parent(s) | Louise Virginia Sale, Maynard Lamar Cassady |
| Awards | Preservation Angel Award 2007 (first recipient) |
Carolyn Wade Cassady Kent (July 20, 1935 - August 22, 2009) was an American historical preservationist and activist who lived most of her life in New York City on Riverside Drive, one block west of her alma mater Columbia University. As founder of Manhattan Community Board 9's Parks and Landmarks Committee and co-founder of the Morningside Heights Historic District Committee she worked to advocate for the architectures and communities of Morningside Heights, Manhattanville and Hamilton Heights in close collaboration with community, city and state organizations and agencies, to effect landmark designations, restorations and interventions that have preserved and protected buildings and entire neighborhoods. In 2007, she was given the first Preservation Angel Award. In addition, Kent served as Secretary of the Renaissance English Text Society.
"Lyn" was born in Rochester, New York, where her father, Maynard Lamar Cassady, was teaching religion at the University. Maynard was an ordained minister who had obtained his theology degree at Princeton. He met Lyn's mother, Louise Virginia Sale, at William and Mary where she had been one of his students. Louise was the last of seven children of one of Virginia's so called First Families located in Fairfield, Virginia. Instead of leading a conventional existence, she became, with her husband, an active civil rights worker, a tradition which she passed on to her children. Maynard died relatively young while teaching at Crozier Theological Seminary where Martin Luther King, Jr. was at that time a student. His three daughters, Carolyn, Elizabeth, and Anne, of which only Lyn was barely a teen, were left with their mother who moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan as Dean of Women at Kalamazoo College. Louise later married Charles Johnson, pastor of First Presbyterian Church there.
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