Organization
Alice Austen House
Also known as: Clear Comfort
A National Historic Landmark museum on Staten Island's North Shore — the 17th-century cottage 'Clear Comfort' where Alice Austen (1866–1952) lived and worked for most of her life. Austen was one of the first significant American women photographers; her ~8,000-image archive documents late-19th and early-20th-century street life, immigration, queer life, and the New York Harbor. The museum has reframed itself in recent decades as one of the country's first dedicated LGBTQ historic sites.
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Why this listing
The borough’s cultural memory layer is not just colonial-era and Black history — it also holds the queer and women’s-photography layers that the Alice Austen House preserves. Listed as knowledge-care because the institution is what keeps the archive available, the visiting hours real, the programming alive.
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- Shares approach with: [[sandy-ground-historical-society]]
- Member of: [[organization]]
- Contained by: [[staten-island]]
Sources
- Alice Austen House published materials and archive documentation
- National Historic Landmark designation records
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A listing in the [[0mn1one|0mn1.one]] [[directory]].
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Cultural
shares approach with
- Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art both are SI institutions where a single individual's vision became permanent cultural infrastructure — Alice Austen for photography, Jacques Marchais for Tibetan art
- National Lighthouse Museum both are North Shore SI institutions tied to the maritime/photographic past of New York Harbor
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