Please note that this is a request for petition signatures only.  It is NOT A REQUEST FOR FUNDS OR CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS. Funds solicited by the petition service will go to the petition service, not to Crow House.

Crow House is the hand-built home and studio of American Artist Henry Varnum Poor.  It is located on South Mountain Road, New City, NY.

Some of the 20th-Century’s most distinguished artists, including the composer Kurt Weill, the performer Lotte Lenya, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Maxwell Anderson, were residents of New City’s South Mountain Road. A hub of this vibrant community survives in Crow House, the hand-built studio of the artist, craftsman and self-taught architect Henry Varnum Poor (1887-1970). Crow House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (2007). 

With an almost half-million dollar grant from New York State, the Town of Ramapo, in 2007, acquired Crow House and the five acres surrounding it. Although legally obligated to maintain it and to open it to the public, the Town has done neither.  

If you are a resident and/or taxpayer in Ramapo, Clarkstown (in which the property is actually situated), or elsewhere in Rockland County, NY, please add your name to the list of individuals who support the Henry Varnum Poor Foundation in demanding immediate measures to stabilize and then restore, for the benefit of all, this irreplaceable feature of history and cultural life in Rockland County.  If you are not a resident or tax payer, but wish to sign, we welcome your signature indicating your support of our efforts.

To learn more about Crow House, Henry Varnum Poor or the Henry Varnum Poor Foundation, visit www.HenryVarnumPoor.org