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2025 Fellowship Winners Announced

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:52:09 GMT

The Fellowship Committee of NESAH is excited to announce our two 2026 fellowship winners, Sarah Moses of Harvard and Joshua Tan of MIT.

Sarah Moses, 2026 John Coolidge Dissertation Fellowship Winner

Sarah Moses is a PhD candidate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her current work examines segregationist projects at public beachfront leisure sites in the United States as attempts to spatialize race – to inscribe ideas about race in space – and to racialize space – to make Black users experience disparate treatment in their movements across space, through surveillance, bars to access, and inequitable dictates of public decorum. Prior to her enrollment at Harvard, Sarah was a public historian for the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission where she wrote about lesser-known episodes in New York City’s past. Sarah holds both Master of Architecture and a Master of Science in Historic Preservation degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where the focus of her research was conflict between the collective desire to memorialize and the protective impulse to stigmatize, sanitize, or obliterate sites with traumatic or violent associations.

Her dissertation examines the collusions of architects, bureaucrats, resort developers, residents, and enforcement officers to segregate public beaches in the United States. After the Civil War (1861-1865) and through the Great Migration (ca. 1915-1970), millions of Southern Black migrants sought work in the service sectors of Northern, Midwestern, and Western cities. Despite the absence of overt segregationist statutes at most of those cities’ shorelines, Black residents and travelers alike were met with rampant prejudice and segregationist practices couched as concessions to white Southerners’ “sensibilities” or to “custom.” While most of the instantiations I consider were products of white segregationists’ schemes to subject Black users to inequitable treatment in public space, others represent Black entrepreneurs’ efforts to cultivate autonomous and safe leisure retreats for Black travelers.

Sarah will present a lecture on her Coolidge fellowship-funded research to NESAH in 2027. Congratulations, Sarah!

Joshua Tan, 2026 Robert Rettig Annual Meeting Fellowship Winner

Joshua Tan is a doctoral student in the history, theory, and criticism of art and architecture at MIT. His research considers the role of diplomacy and technical exchange on architectural production and labor in East and Southeast Asia. He was the co-editor of the peer-reviewed Thresholds 53: Idle (MIT Press, 2025), a MIT Presidential Graduate Fellow, and a Young National University of Singapore Fellow. After completing a M.Arch at Yale, Joshua received the Edward P. Bass Fellowship to examine working-class housing in Victorian London at Cambridge University. His research has been published in Modelling Social Housing (Routledge, 2025), Scroope (University of Cambridge, 2025), Burning Farm (EPFL, 2024), Pidgin (Princeton SOA, 2024), Dune (IUAV, 2022), and the Singapore Policy Journal (Harvard, 2020), with upcoming articles in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 36 (2026).

The Rettig Fellowship will support Joshua's attendance at the annual SAH conference in Mexico City this April, where he will present his paper “On Any Other Day: Professional Practice and the Developmental State of Singapore,
1968–1977” at the session PS21: Oceanic and South-East Asian Built Histories of Development.

Congratulations, Joshua!

Directors' Night 2026

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:48:11 GMT

Directors' Night 2026 will feature three lectures by three current and past board members on their recent and ongoing research: Virginia Raguin, C. Ian Stevenson, and Jonathan Duval. Presented virtually via Zoom, the event will take place on Wednesday, March 18 at 7 PM. The three talks will be followed by a live Q&A with the speakers.

Virginia Raguin, "The Illuminated Window: Stories Across Time": Virginia Raguin's 2023 book The Illuminated Window: Stories Across Time (Reaktion Books) offers a series of vignettes of stained glass environments across patronage, countries, and time frames that enables an in-depth discussion of production as well as diversity of representation. In multiple instances, from the twelfth through the twenty-first centuries, we find conflict, commemoration, celebration, and innovation. The architecture is a frame, not only for the windows but for our own bodies as they move through space. Including windows from the cathedrals of Chartres, Canterbury, and Cologne, Paris’ Sainte Chapelle, Swiss guild-halls, the Pink Mosque, Iran, to Tiffany’s chapel for the World Columbian Exposition and Frank Lloyd Wright’s California homes, the text describes the site-specific decisions of production. This art results not from a single maker, but through the collaborative tension between the architect and stained glass artist and the concern of the patrons to address their audience.

Virginia Raguin is Emeritus Professor, College of the Holy Cross. She has also served on the NESAH board and has published widely on religion, stained glass and architecture ranging from medieval to contemporary times Her book Artistic Integration in Gothic Buildings (Toronto University Press, 1995) united major scholars. Stained Glass from its Origins to the Present (Thames & Hudson 2003) is a chronological survey. Her on-line book Style, Status, and Religion: America’s Pictorial Windows 1840-1950 presents a broad overview of the American experience and offers 450 downloadable images.

C. Ian Stevenson, "Destination 'Magic Town’: Selling Rumford, Maine, in the Nineteenth Century": In 1890, paper magnate Hugh Chisholm finished purchasing 1100 acres along the Androscoggin River at Rumford Falls, Maine, a waterpower source so profound it was nicknamed "New England’s Niagara." The falls offered more power than Chisholm needed for his own manufacturing and so it provided him the opportunity to transform this so-called wilderness into a thriving urban oasis. By 1906, one Boston newspaper dubbed Rumford Falls “Magic Town,” indicating the fulfillment of Chisholm's vision and the apex of capitalism. In this talk historian C. Ian Stevenson explains how Chisholm used visual media to sell his idea through a combination of printed promotional materials, such as illustrated pamphlets and postcards, and physical infrastructure, such as repeating railroad station architecture, to convince investors to purchase lots and build there.

C. Ian Stevenson is a Lecturer in the Preservation Studies Program at Boston University. Ian holds a PhD in American & New England Studies and an MA in Preservation Studies from Boston University. Ian’s research and publications include such topics as historic dams, railroad station architecture, Civil War veterans’ vacation homes, historic preservation photography, the creation of national parks, and river rewilding. Ian is working on a book manuscript titled Summer Homes of the Survivors: Buildings and Landscapes of the Civil War Vacation, 1878-1918, under contract with the University of Virginia Press. In addition to his academic work, Ian was the Director of Advocacy for Greater Portland Landmarks, a non-profit historic preservation organization in Portland, Maine, and an independent preservation consultant. Ian has served as a board member for the Vernacular Architecture Forum and the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, where he was also secretary.

Jonathan Duval, "Frank Chouteau Brown's Letters and Lettering (1902)": Frank Chouteau Brown's Letters and Lettering (1902) distilled for a generation of architects the history and practice of lettering in architecture. For decades, lettering on drawings by architects and engineers had begun to diverge, and Brown, like others, took the opportunity to argue for a distinct type lettering for architects. By collecting diverse samples from prominent contemporaneous designers, Brown promoted a style that emphasized an individual artistic identity. He pointedly distinguished this practice from lettering in engineering, which he portrayed as being purely mechanical and devoid of aesthetic sensibility. Brown’s work helped solidify lettering as a site of professional self-definition and the expression of artistic authority. Ultimately, the movement toward a unique graphic style allowed architects to signal their creative expertise at a glance, even in highly technical working drawings.

Jonathan Duval is the Assistant Curator of Architecture & Design at the MIT Museum. His research focuses on the history of architectural practice and pedagogy, architectural representation and graphics, and the bureaucratic intersections of architecture and technology. In addition to the MIT Museum, Jon has held curatorial positions, internships, and fellowships at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Sir John Soane’s Museum, and the RISD Museum. He studied architectural history at Tufts University and Brown University and is on the Board of Directors of the New England chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Virtual Lecture: Henry Hobson Richardson: Drawings from the Collection of the Houghton Library, Harvard University

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:42:56 GMT

On March 10, 2026 at 7 PM, authors Jay Wickersham, Chris Milford, and Hope Mayo will present a lecture on their new book Henry Hobson Richardson: Drawings from the Houghton Library, Harvard University, published by Monacelli Press/Phaidon.

The book is the first in-depth publication of drawings by H. H. Richardson, the greatest American architect of the nineteenth century. The trove of over 4,000 drawings, preserved since Richardson’s death in the Houghton Rare Book Library at Harvard, have been largely unpublished until now. The book presents full-color reproductions of 450 sketches and renderings by the Boston-based architect and his talented assistants, who included Charles McKim and Stanford White. It includes more than 50 projects, including such masterpieces as Boston’s Trinity Church; Sever and Austin Halls at Harvard; the Stoughton House in Cambridge; the Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail in Pittsburgh; the Marshall Field Store and Glessner House in Chicago; and five small public libraries.

The authors will discuss the Richardson drawings and what they reveal about collaboration in Richardson’s studio, with a focus on the design process that produced Trinity Church. Martin Filler, in the New York Review of Books, called this “An instructive, handsomely produced volume... From Richardson’s lightning-bolt conceptual sketches to seductive presentation drawings by his talented assistants, we are led, project by project and step by step, through the prolific master’s output.” Michael J. Lewis, in the New Criterion, writes that, “Like a silent movie, the images themselves telling a story, we watch Richardson gradually find his way, year by year, page by page... At a time when architectural practice has effectively abolished drawing by hand, this book will come as a revelation.”

The book has received the 2025 Book Prize from the Victorian Society in America and the 2025 Honor Book Award from Historic New England, and is available to purchase on Phaidon's website.

Jay Wickersham, an architect and lawyer, taught for fifteen years at the Harvard Graduate. School of Design, where he was an associate professor of architecture in practice. Chris Milford is a partner in the architectural firm of Milford & Ford Associates, specializing in historic preservation and restoration. Hope Mayo, a renowned expert in rare books, drawings, prints, and manuscripts, was the former Philip Hofer Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts (retired) at Houghton Library, where she oversaw the Richardson drawings collection.

Virtual Lecture: Richard's House on Sippican Harbor, Revisited

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:06:55 GMT

On November 12 at 7 PM, Mark Wright will present his talk "Richardson’s House on Sippican Harbor, Revisited: Notes since 2010."

In his article "H. H. Richardson’s House for Rev’d Browne, Rediscovered" (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2010), Wright presented one of Richardson’s most enigmatic and consequential works. His graphic reconstruction of the house as it was originally built was grounded in then-newly-identified 19th- and early 20th-century photographs, archival research, and close examination and measurement of the surviving, altered building. To fill the house in mind’s eye with the family for whom it was created, he explored the lives of Richardson’s clients and their neighbors. This perspective engendered a lively picture of the house’s place in the physical and social landscape, and led to a fuller understanding of how the commission's design influenced the architect’s rivals and followers, and – perhaps most importantly – their clients. Consideration of the house in the context of some of H. H. Richardson’s better-known work of the period between 1879 and 1882 showed that this tiny commission was central to the architect’s development as a mature artist.

It is a fitting time for an update. At the time of the article's publication, the house had recently changed hands and its future was uncertain. In 2019 a hastily mounted but successful social media and letter-writing campaign convinced the owners to withdraw their application for a permit to demolish the house outright, and to look instead for an institutionally supportable use for the cultural asset of which they’d discovered themselves to be stewards. The town has become more engaged in an ongoing effort to assure the building’s preservation. It has been nominated to the Preservation Massachusetts Most Endangered Historic Resources Program. And, over the last 15 years, Mr. Wright has enriched his own understanding both of the process of its design – including fruitful improvisation based on input from the owner and contractor – and of how the unique shingle detailing with which H. H. Richardson treated this house (and no other) behaved in changing sunshine. The talk is based on one Wright recently delivered to a lay audience in Marion, Massachusetts, sponsored by the Sippican Historical Society.

Mark Wright is an architect in private practice. He was educated at the Rice University School of Architecture (BA '80, BArch '82), then had the good fortune to spend his first professional decade with Kliment & Halsband. Since 2003, Wright & Robinson Architects has worked to bring 21st century families and their 19th century houses into happy mutual accommodation. Wright's technical understanding of the Queen Anne and Shingle Style architecture of the towns along the Watchung Ridge undergirds his work on Richardson's Percy Browne house and his ongoing research into houses by Charles Follen McKim, John Charles Olmsted, and Frederick B. White.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: 46th Annual NESAH Student Symposium

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:02:39 GMT

The deadline to submit abstracts for the 46th Annual Student Symposium has been pushed to Friday, September 26.

The New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to announce its upcoming 46th Annual Student Symposium. The Student Symposium features presentations by outstanding students from programs across New England in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture, art history, urban studies, historic preservation, and related fields. This year's event will take place on Saturday, November 8, 2025 at Brown University. Student presenters must present in-person, though the event will be held in a hybrid format for remote viewing.

Student symposium presenters are typically engaged in producing a thesis or dissertation, or are interested in developing work done in connection with a seminar or lecture course. Symposium paper topics may concern the architecture of any era or place. Presenters should be current students at an academic institution in the New England region. Paper presentations should be 20 minutes in length and accompanied by slides; presentations will be followed by a brief Q&A.

If you are interested in presenting your work at the symposium, please submit an abstract and short biographical note by September 26. Student abstracts should include the student’s name, the name of their faculty advisor, their field of study, and their institutional affiliation. Abstracts should be less than 300 words in length and should be followed by a short biography of less than 100 words. Please submit as a single pdf document to nesah.president@gmail.com.

We will notify students of acceptance decisions shortly after the deadline.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at nesah.president@gmail.com with any questions that you may have. Thank you for your participation!

Virtual Lecture: Far-Flung Frontier: American Basing Negotiations with Iceland, 1945-1947

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:08:10 GMT

On October 30 at 7 PM, 2024 Cooldige Fellowship winner Olivia Wynne Houck of MIT will present her talk, "Far-Flung Frontier: American Basing Negotiations with Iceland, 1945-1947" on Zoom. Register here!

Throughout the Second World War, the United States established temporary military bases on islands in the North Atlantic Ocean – spanning from Iceland and Greenland down to the Azores – as a means to protect the Western Hemisphere and facilitate the movement of materiel to Europe. However, after the war ended it became apparent that the strategic need for these bases remained vital to U.S. security, and the Americans embarked on a series of negotiations with the Icelanders in order to secure longer leases and maintain their presence on the island. These negotiations were eventually successful, but the contours of public debate around overseas U.S. basing, particularly in relation to the developing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, reveal not just a more expansive understanding of American security, but also the valence that “bases” took on in diplomatic venues and public messaging. In these contexts, the “base” had three meanings – it was an instrument of power projection, or a way of enabling operational capacity; it was an object of negotiation, or a focal point from which to argue about larger tensions of intention and presence; and it was a tool for navigating and facilitating bilateral and multilateral security arrangements and guarantees. Not only were “bases” crucial nodes in the development of a growing global infrastructure, but they also were political and symbolic, evidencing larger accusations of “aggression” or “expansion.” By interrogating American negotiations to secure bases on the northern edge of the North Atlantic region, we can see how politics, diplomacy, and technology coalesced, laying the groundwork for the infrastructure that would comprise the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Olivia Wynne Houck is a a doctoral candidate in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she focuses on the intersection of the built environment, diplomacy, and geopolitics during the early Cold War. She is particularly interested in the interplay between NATO, American foreign policy, technology, and infrastructure in relation to the European and North American Arctic regions. Her work considers American foreign policy and NATO from their coldest edges. Entitled “Concrete Security: Constructing and Defending the North Atlantic Region, 1940-1950” her dissertation centers the built environment as a means to investigate how the North Atlantic region became a strategic territory, in large part through the American desire for, and fear of, military bases on the islands of Greenland and Iceland during the Second World War and postwar period. Houck holds a B.A. in Art History from the College of William and Mary, an M.A. in Architectural History from the University of Virginia, and a Postgraduate Diploma in ‘Small States Studies’ from the University of Iceland. She is a Research Associate at The Arctic Institute and a Research Fellow with the North American and Arctic Defense and Security Network and has held visiting researcher positions and fellowships with the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo and the Arctic Institute.

Virtual Lecture: Wooden Churches in Wartime Ukraine

Mon, 19 May 2025 15:30:09 GMT

On May 22 at 7 PM, Ukrainian architects Mariana Kaplinska and Ihor Bokalo will present their talk “Wooden Churches in Wartime Ukraine: Conservation Challenges,” which later this month will be presented at the American Institute for Conservation’s 53rd Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. Register here!

The use of wood is an integral part of Ukrainian culture, and the tradition of wooden building technology goes through the whole history of Ukraine. Wooden churches are the quintessence of Ukrainian wooden building tradition; there are thousands of historic wooden churches in Ukraine. Many of them are understudied or introduced into scientific discourse in very general terms, the vast majority are completely unknown in the world, and all of them are endangered today, as the most vulnerable and fragile structures under the threat of Russian attacks.

Since Russia's brutal 2022 invasion, conservation in Ukraine has faced many additional challenges on top of the normal difficulties of preserving wooden architecture. The long-term conservation of heritage buildings requires immediate action, cooperation with emergency services, documentation of damages, and the prioritization of sites according to their past and potential conservation. Kaplinska and Bokalo will present their ongoing project to digitally document valuable and endangered wooden churches in Ukraine. Their work defines the heritage value, architectural typology, threat level and accessibility (proximity to the frontline and to the border with the enemy, artillery strike risk, and the liberation of occupied territories) as criteria for directing conservation efforts. Their presentation will recount their three expeditions undertaken between November 2023 and February 2024 to document the 11 oldest wooden churches in Central, Northern, and Eastern Ukraine, which were 3D-scanned and photo-documented to preserve their appearance in the face of direct shelling threats, and their ongoing work to document another 25 churches in case of their damage or loss.

Kaplinska and Bokalo’s project uses 3D scanning along with photogrammetric surveying to accurately and efficiently document threatened wooden structures in close detail. Their project also represents an initial step towards the further study of Ukrainian wooden churches.

More information about Kaplinska and Bokalo’s work can be read in Karolina Świder’s article, “More Than Buildings,” published by Red Arch Cultural Heritage Law & Policy Research with support from the Knights of Columbus, and linked here.

Mariana Kaplinska is a licensed architect and urban planning professional who has been practicing architecture since 2008. She is an Associate Professor at Uzhhorod National University and also teaches practical classes and lectures on architectural and interior design, historic preservation, architectural conservation, and wooden built heritage conservation at Lviv Polytechnic National University. She has additionally worked as a consultant for Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (London) and as the Head of the Architecture Section at the Klymentiy Sheptytsky Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life in Lviv. In 2016, Kaplinska defended her PhD thesis, “The Principles of Regeneration for the Market Squares in the Historic Towns and Cities of the Western Region of Ukraine.” Kaplinska is additionally a member of the Ukrainian International Center for the Study of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) committee, with a particular focus on the science, theory, and history of architect and issues of cultural heritage preservation.

Ihor Bokalo is also a licensed architect and urban planning professional who began his career as an architect in 2002. Since defending his PhD thesis, Architecture of the Lost Churches in the City of Lviv, in 2010, Bokalo has been Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Conservation at Lviv Polytechnic National University. His experience spans a wide range of projects, including architectural conservation, the design of new constructions, major renovations, and urban reconstruction. Beyond conservation projects – including at St. Casimir Church in Lviv and the Holy Spirit Church in Potelych – Ihor has served as the chief architect and main contractor for several large-scale industrial plants; he has participated in numerous grants and programs; and is a member of the Ukranian International Center for the Study of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) committee. His primary areas of scientific research include traditional wooden architecture, particularly in the Carpathian region of Ukraine, heritage preservation legislation, and the training and education of heritage preservation professionals.

NESAH 2025 Annual Meeting

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:13:16 GMT

NESAH's 2025 annual meeting will be held at the Peerless Lofts in Providence, RI.

The annual meeting will be held at Peerless Lofts (150 Union Street) and begin at 1 PM. Programming will include a walking tour of residential adaptive reuse in Providence led by NESAH Director Jason Bouchard and a keynote talk by Marisa Angell Brown, Executive Director of the Providence Preservation Society.

The program will also include a brief business meeting comprising board elections and chapter updates. Light refreshments will be served. Both in-person and virtual registration are available for the annual meeting.

NESAH membership and event registration is required to attend. To become a member, or to renew your membership, please visit the membership page on our website.

Full program:

1 PM - Event begins. Remarks and NESAH business meeting.

1:45 PM - Walking tour of residential adaptive reuse in Providence led by Jason Bouchard.

2:30 PM - Break for refreshments and programming discussion.

2:45 PM - Keynote talk by Marisa Angell Brown.

3:30 PM - Q&A with Marisa, further discussion.

4 PM - Event concludes.

Parking: Street parking is possible in downtown Providence, and several parking garages are within walking distance of Peerless Lofts.

Getting to Providence: Providence is easily accessible from Boston on the Providence/Stoughton line of the MBTA, and by Amtrak. The Providence train station is a 10 minute walk from Peerless Lofts.

Please direct any questions to Sophie Higgerson at nesah.president@gmail.com

Photo: NatRea, Cornish Associates

2025 John Coolidge Research Fellowship Winner

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:43:24 GMT

The Fellowship Committee of NESAH is pleased to announce Yannick Etoundi as the recipient of the 2025 John Coolidge Research Fellowship.

Yannick is a doctoral candidate at the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University and the 2024-25 Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow at the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. His main area of focus is on the colonial built environments of the African continent and the African diaspora, with a special emphasis on racial slavery, abolition, and colonialism. His dissertation explores the relationship between colonial architecture and emancipation in the French vieilles colonies (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Reunion, French Guiana) between 1848 and 1900. Trained as an architect, he has worked in architectural firms based in Yukon (Canada) and Tokyo (Japan) and holds experience in curation and public humanities.

The Coolidge Fellowship will support Yannick's research for his dissertation, entitled "Abolishing Racial Slavery, Building a French Colonial Utopia: Architecture and Emancipation in the "Vieilles Colonies," 1848-1900,". Racial slavery was officially abolished for a second time in the French colonial empire in 1848. Yet, immediately, the discontinuities between the promises of freedom advanced by French Republicanism and the restrictions on Black life that ensued were made visible in the built environment of the vieilles colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and Reunion. This dissertation project investigates how emancipation reshaped the colonial built environment of France's former slave colonies. Importantly, through this unfolding, it aims to understand how freedpeople rebuild their lives in this post-emancipation colonial landscape. Here, the historical experience of emancipation is positioned as a major force shaping the development of French colonial architecture and urbanism during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Congratulations, Yannick!

2025 Robert Rettig Annual Meeting Fellowship Winner

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:35:20 GMT

The Fellowship Committee of NESAH is pleased to announce Charlotte Leib as the recipient of the 2025 Robert Rettig Annual Meeting Fellowship.

Charlotte is a sixth-year PhD Candidate in History at Yale University, where she primarily researches, teaches, and writes about American energy history and histories of the built environment. Originally trained in architecture and landscape architecture, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Princeton University and dual Masters Degrees in Landscape Architecture and in the History & Philosophy of Design from Harvard University. Her dissertation examines how meadow plants, technologies, and ideologies shaped larger patterns of colonization, climate change, and urbanization along the Northeastern Atlantic seaboard during the transition from the organic to fossil economies, using the Meadowlands of New Jersey / Lenapehoking as a central case study. She has forthcoming work in the Journal of Energy History and the edited volume New Jersey's Natures: Environmental Histories of the Garden State (Rutgers University Press, 2026).

The Rettig Fellowship will support Charlotte's attendance at the annual SAH conference in Atlanta this April, where she will share some of her dissertation research on the panel "Dividing Lines: The Legacy of the Interstate in the American City". Her paper at the conference will demonstrate how the ubiquitous use of sand drain technology in the construction highway infrastructure over marshlands ecologically transformed the Meadowlands and how artists and engineers conceptualized and constructed solid ground in the 1930's through 1960's.

Congratulations, Charlotte!

Coolidge Fellowship Deadline Extension

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:52:56 GMT

The deadline for NESAH's John Coolidge Research Fellowship has been extended to February 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM. The annual fellowship supports a graduate student at a New England college or university working on topics related to architectural history, the built environment, and related fields with a grant of $1000. The research grant is distributed in two parts, the first half upon the awarding of the grant and the second half after the winner completes a lecture to NESAH members describing their research and the way the Coolidge Fellowship supported their work. For more information, please see the Fellowships and Awards section of the NESAH website. Questions and completed applications should be sent to Sophie Higgerson, Chapter President, at nesah.president@gmail.com.

Event Announcement: Directors' Night 2025

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:53:15 GMT

Save the date for Directors' Night 2025! This virtual program features three lectures by three current board members on their recent and ongoing research. The event will take place on February 13 at 7 PM, and registrants will receive a Zoom link on the day of the event. Please follow the "events" subheading above to register.

This year's talks will feature:

Dennis DeWitt, "Bostons Parisian Pissoirs": In the early nineteenth century, American and European cities provided little or no opportunities for working men to relieve themselves. In 1855 Boston initiated a now long-forgotten program of constructing public street urinals, just as the first iron pissoirs were appearing in Paris. Over the course of some 65 years the program sponsored the creation of twenty-six examples from four different designs, in the face on ongoing opposition. DeWitt's pre-recorded talk examines the design, construction, and ultimate removal of these urban pissoirs.

Sophie Higgerson, "The Mechanics of Obscurity: Lois Welzenbacher and Modernism's Margins": Sophie Higgerson presents a work-in-progress talk on Lois Welzenbacher's inclusion in MoMA's 1932 exhibition of modern architecture. Though he was included to represent the country of Austria, Welzenbacher's architecture was largely dismissed by the show's co-curators Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock, who criticized Welzenbacher's designs in their accompanying scholarly publication. Higgerson investigates how the circumstances of Welzenbacher's career and discovery by the two Americans contributed to his marginal status in architectural history today.

Christina Volpe, "Preserving Legacy: The Barnes Museum and Southington's Built Environment": The Barnes Museum, a historic house museum nestled in Southington, Connecticut, stands as a testament to over two centuries of local history and family legacy. Celebrating its 50th anniversary as a museum, this 19th-century homestead remains a time capsule, showcasing the Bradley Barnes family's daily lives, aspirations, and influence. Christina Volpe explores the Barnes Museum's pivotal role in shaping Southington's built environment and collective memory, highlighting how the industrialists of the Gilded Age left an enduring impact on the town's physical and cultural landscape. Her forthcoming book The Barnes Museum & Homestead (available February 25, Arcadia Publishing) expands on these stories, weaving together the threads of community, preservation, and legacy.

The program will conclude with a live Q&A with Sophie Higgerson and Christina Volpe

Call for Papers: 45th Annual NESAH Student Symposium

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:58:51 GMT

The New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to announce its upcoming 45th Annual Student Symposium.

The Student Symposium features presentations by outstanding students from programs across New England in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture, art history, urban studies, historic preservation, and related fields. This year's event will take place from mid-morning to mid-afternoon on Saturday, November 9, 2024 at the MIT Museum, 314 Main Street, Gambrill Center, Cambridge, MA 02142. Student presenters must present in-person, though the event will be held in a hybrid format for remote viewing.

If you are interested in presenting your work at the symposium, please submit an abstract and short biographical note by September 27, 2024. Student abstracts should include the student’s name, the name of their faculty advisor, their field of study, and their institutional affiliation. Abstracts should be less than 300 words in length and should be followed by a short biography of less than 100 words. Please submit as a single PDF document to nesah.president@gmail.com.

We will notify students of acceptance decisions by October 4, 2024.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at nesah.president@gmail.com with any questions that you may have.

A Day in Provincetown

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:24:45 GMT

The New England Society of Architectural Historians is headed to Provincetown, Massachusetts on October 12, 2024 for a day of tours, discussions, and adventure!

Located at the northerly tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown is the site of the initial landing of the Mayflower in 1620 and where the Mayflower Compact was drafted and declared.

From the landmarks of Provincetown's West End, to the legendary artist dune shacks in the Cape Cod National Seashore, we are excited to experience these opportunities.
The cost for members is $75 and does not include lodging.
To Register, go to A Day in Provincetown
For more information or questions, please email nesah.president@gmail.com

LECTURE: "Ambitions, Assumptions, and Unintended Consequences: Understanding Britain's Imperial Institute," by Carter Jackson

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:47:28 GMT

NE/SAH is pleased to host a lecture from our 2023 John Coolidge Fellowship recipient, Carter Jackson of Boston University.

Thursday, September 12
7:00 pm

Presented via Zoom. Pre-registration for this free event is required. Please register here!

In the 1890s, the British Empire covered nearly one quarter of the globe, but it faced growing dissent in its colonies and challenges to its hegemony. In response to these concerns, a massive building complex called the Imperial Institute opened in London in 1893. Its program included conference rooms, emigration and intelligence offices, as well as galleries of natural resources from the colonies—all of which were intended to serve as a “permanent binding force” for the Empire. However, the Imperial Institute never achieved its unifying purpose, and it has long been deemed an ill-conceived one-off and a failure.

The 2023 John Coolidge Research Fellowship supported archival research for Carter’s doctoral dissertation, which includes an investigation of the Imperial Institute and similar institutional buildings. His lecture aims to situate the Imperial Institute within the longer, largely overlooked history of similar institutional buildings in Britain and its colonies. It will also explore the ambitions and assumptions that underpinned the Institute’s design and how they ironically thwarted its mission.

Carter Jackson is a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. His dissertation, entitled “The Architecture of Britain’s Imperial Institutes and the Misgivings of Empire,” explores the privately funded institutional buildings that once served as the scientific, social, and economic centers that helped make Britain’s Empire tangible and facilitated its development. Carter has worked with architecture in the context of museums and historic preservation through internships and fellowships at Historic New England, the Library of Congress, the Massachusetts Historical Commission, the MIT Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

2024 John Coolidge Research Fellowship Winner

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:02:43 GMT

The Fellowship Committee of the New England chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (NESAH) is pleased to announce Olivia Wynne Houck as the recipient of the 2024 John Coolidge Research Fellowship.

Olivia Wynne Houck is a PHD candidate in the History of Architecture program at MIT, where she focuses on the intersection of the built environment, diplomacy, and geopolitics during the Cold War. She is particularly interested in the interplay between NATO, American and Nordic foreign policies, technology, and infrastructure in the European and North American Arctics. Entitled “Concrete Security: NATO as a Territorial Project, 1940-1960,” she employs the methodologies and considerations of the built environment to interrogate diplomatic exchanges between the United States and other NATO member nations, particularly Iceland, Norway, and Denmark, within the venue of NATO. She considers how structures related to militarization, especially the military base, caused friction between NATO members, and how this necessitated the alliance’s interrogation of larger questions about policy, politics, sovereignty, and territory.She also explores how a historical focus on the built environment can be used to contribute to current policy analysis, especially with regards to national security. She holds a B.A. in Art History from the College of William and Mary, a M.A. in Architectural History from the University of Virginia. The John Coolidge Research Fellowship will allow her to consult the NATO Archives in Brussels.

Olivia will give a lecture for NESAH upon completion of her research.

Congratulations Olivia!

2024 Robert Rettig Student Annual Meeting Fellowship Winner

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:10:24 GMT

The Fellowship Committee of the New England chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (NESAH) is pleased to announce Phoebe Springstubb as the recipient of the 2024 Robert Rettig Student Annual Meeting Fellowship.

Phoebe Springstubb is a PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture at MIT. Her dissertation examines the role of ephemeral architecture, infrastructure-building, and politics of time in conceptualizing the North American Arctic’s deep past. More broadly, she researches the built and natural environments of the nineteenth and twentieth-century Circumpolar North, with a particular interest in connections between Alaska and Siberia. Before beginning her studies at MIT, she was a curatorial assistant in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her writing has appeared in Architectural Theory Review, Journal of Architectural Education, a Canadian Centre for Architecture web issue, and elsewhere.

At the SAH Conference, Phoebe will present one of her dissertation chapters on a panel called “Institutions of Life: Architecture and the Life Sciences.” Phoebe's paper, “‘They builde with whale bones’: Whaling and the Construction of a Useable Past in the North American Arctic,” will contribute research on a geography that is still little studied by architectural history—Alaska and the Arctic.

Congratulations Phoebe!

2024 ANNUAL MEETING

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 12:00:00 GMT

Saturday, March 9, 2024
1:00 - 4:00 pm

First Church in Roxbury
10 Putnam Street, Boston, MA 02119

Keynote Speakers:

Historian Byron Rushing will discuss the rich history and ongoing preservation of Roxbury, one of Boston's most historic neighborhoods. Byron served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for over thirty years, and was also the president of the Museum of African-American History in Boston.

Researcher Aabid Allibhai will discuss his report "Race & Slavery at the First Church in Roxbury (The Colonial Period 1631-1775)," released in early 2023. This report tells the story of at least fifty-eight human beings—Black and Indigenous men, women, and children— who were enslaved by First Church’s white parishioners. Aabid is currently a PhD candidate at Harvard.

Tour:

Attendees will also have the opportunity to tour the 1804 Meetinghouse with Andrea Gilmore, the preservationist in charge of its restoration. The meetinghouse (pictured below) is the oldest wood-framed church still standing in Boston and its historic building fabric has been remarkably well preserved on both the exterior and the interior.

Additional details:

The program will also include a brief business meeting for elections and chapter updates. Light refreshments will be served.

NESAH membership and event registration is required to attend the annual meeting. To become a member, or to renew your membership, please visit our membership page. (Please note that anyone with an interest in architecture history is welcome to become a member!)

To register for the meeting, click here:

REGISTER HERE

ANNUAL MEETING: Save the date!

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:39:09 GMT

Please save the date of Saturday, March 9, 2024, for the 2024 Annual Meeting! We have some very exciting plans in the works and will be announcing the details shortly.

Please note: If you are not a current member but are interested in joining or renewing your membership with NESAH, please visit our Membership tab!

LECTURE: "The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building, 1870-1930" by Chelsea Spencer

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:54:56 GMT

NE/SAH is pleased to host a lecture from our 2022 John Coolidge Fellowship recipient, Chelsea Spencer of MIT.

Tuesday, January 16
7:00 pm

Presented via Zoom. Pre-registration for this free event is required. Please register here!

The 2022 John Coolidge Research Fellowship supported Chelsea’s archival fieldwork, sending her to Pittsburgh to study the construction records of the Frick Building, a twenty-story office building still standing in Downtown Pittsburgh.

Managed by the George A. Fuller Company, construction of the Frick Building began in 1901 and was completed by 1903, leaving behind an unusually voluminous archive and an acrid dispute between the Fuller Company and its client, the wealthy industrialist Henry Clay Frick. Chelsea used this archive as a window onto the operations of what was then the largest, most well-capitalized construction company in the United States at a pivotal moment in the firm’s history. On January 16th, Chelsea will give a virtual talk to share more about what she found in the archive and how it will contribute to her dissertation project.

Chelsea Spencer is a PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art at MIT. Her dissertation, titled “The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building, 1873–1930,” traces the rise of general contracting in the United States. Her research more generally concerns the histories of information, capitalism, and the built environment. Chelsea received an MDes in History and Philosophy of Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she cofounded the zine Open Letters, and a BA in art and architectural history from Emory University. Before beginning her studies at MIT, she was the managing editor of Log.

44th Annual Student Symposium

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:27:50 GMT

The New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to share information on the 44th Annual Student Symposium, which will be a hybrid conference taking place on April 8, 2023. Attendees can choose to join in person at Yale University or on Zoom. Please see the poster below for more details.

To register to attend the symposium, please click here: registration.

For any questions about the symposium, please email nesah.symposium2023@gmail.com.

2023 Directors' Night / Annual Meeting

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:57:21 GMT

Monday, February 27
7:00pm

A brief business meeting will precede the presentation of papers.
Presented via Zoom; Pre-registration required.

REGISTER HERE:
https://www.nesah.org/event-5160899

Dennis De Witt
Brookline's Mount Vernon Portico Houses

Three tall columned houses in Brookline’s Green Hill neighborhood, dating from 1794 to 1806, have been identified with the label “Jamaica Planter.” Two are associated with well known later occupants — architect Henry Hobson Richardson and Boston Grand Dame, Isabella Stewart Gardner. Exploring the genesis of “Jamaica Planter” revealed only a casually generated term that offered a convenient explanation for some unusual houses. However, it did not comport with the first of these houses, Senator George Cabot’s “Old Green Hill.” Its inspiration may have been George Washington’s Mount Vernon portico.

Dennis De Witt holds Masters degrees in architecture from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Past-President of S.A.H./New England, a former Vice-Chair of the Brookline Preservation Commission, a Director and Past-President of Boston’s Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, and a Commissioner of the Massachusetts Historical Commission. He has been involved with historic preservation for over 50 years. His book-length publications include Modern Architecture in Europe: A Guide to Buildings Since the Industrial Revolution and various studies related to Boston’s 19th century water system, its architects and technology.

Diana Martinez
The Olmsteds and the Imperial Prospect

In March of 1901 the U.S. Secretary of War wrote to the Olmsted firm requesting advice on improvements to Manila. Though Olmsted Jr. declined the job, he deeply influenced Daniel Burnham’s eventual plans. This paper will consider the legibility of U.S. Empire insofar as it is expressed in Olmsted’s work and influence.

Diana Martinez is an assistant professor of architectural history and the director of architectural studies at Tufts University. She is completing a book manuscript, Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Infrastructure, Urbanism and the American Colonial Project in the Philippines.

Robert Cowherd
Doing History in the Anthropocene

Teaching history to undergraduates as they inherit the multiple intertwined crises of the 21st century compels a critical reexamination of what we teach and how. Facing a torrent of information, how do they construct a dependable foundation for collective action? The challenge is to replace conventional teaching and learning mindsets to mobilize a more confident generation of history practitioners. Instead of studying history, college students can get a jump on a lifetime of doing history.

Robert Cowherd, PhD, is a Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology. His research and publications focus on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism in Southeast Asia and Latin America. He is the author most recently of "Batavian Apartheid: Mapping Bodies, Constructing Identities" in Southeast of Now and "Decolonizing Bamboo" in Dialectic IX. He is former President of the New England Society of Architectural Historians.

Call for Papers: 2023 NESAH Student Symposium

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:48:26 GMT

The New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to announce its upcoming 44th Annual Student Symposium.

The Student Symposium features presentations by outstanding students from programs across New England in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture, art history, urban studies, historic preservation, and related fields. This year's event will take place on Saturday, April 8, 2023. The event will be held in a hybrid format, and student presenters can choose to present in-person or virtually. The in-person component of the event will take place at Loria Hall in the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut.

If you are interested in presenting your work at the symposium, please submit an abstract and short biographical note by February 15, 2023. Update: The deadline has been extended to February 20, 2023. Student abstracts should include the student’s name, the name of their faculty advisor, their field of study, and their institutional affiliation. Abstracts should be less than 300 words in length and should be followed by a short biography of less than 100 words. Please submit as a single pdf document to: nesah.president@gmail.com

We will notify students of acceptance decisions by February 24, 2023.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at nesah.president@gmail.com with any questions that you may have!

Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Breakers, Newport, RI

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 11:12:16 GMT

On October 8^th, the Preservation Society of Newport County invites members and guests of NESAH to tour areas of The Breakers never before seen by the public.

Image credit: Sebastien Dutton / The Preservation Society of Newport County

EVENT DETAILS:

Saturday, October 8, 2022
1:00 - 4:00 PM
The Breakers, 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport RI 02840

History of the Breakers:

The Breakers is the legendary Newport residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his family. Constructed in 1893-1895, the house contains 70 rooms including some 23 family bedrooms and guest rooms as well as 33 servant bedrooms. After World War II, houses like The Breakers were seen as obsolete, windows to a fading lifestyle and era. With the foresight of the late Countess Laszlo Szechenyi (born Gladys Vanderbilt), she loaned her childhood home to be used as a house museum. Following the opening of The Breakers to the curious public in 1948, the Vanderbilt family decamped to the third floor of the house – originally designed for the Vanderbilt boys, guests, and staff – and lived there seasonally when in Newport. The residency of the Vanderbilt family and their descendants continued on for the next 70 years, while hundreds of thousands of visitors toured the floors below every year.

Tour details:

To provide an introduction to the history of the house, all attendees will take a tour of areas of the house already opened to the public: the grand rooms on the first floor, designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt and the Parisian decorator Jules Allard and Sons, as well as the principle bedrooms on the second floor, designed by Boston interior designer Ogden Codman, Jr. Attendees will then choose one of two additional tours that will provide the rare and unique behind-the-scenes opportunity to view the third floor family bedrooms or the servants quarters. All tours will be led by knowledgeable guides from the Preservation Society.

When the last Vanderbilt descendants moved out of The Breakers in 2018, the PSNC was left to decide what the future will hold for the third floor. Following the tours, attendees will be invited to a discussion on the future of the third floor bedrooms and the servants quarters. The discussion will be moderated by Leslie Jones, Curator and Director of Museum Affairs for the Preservation Society of Newport County. Light refreshments will be served during the discussion.

Ticket price:

$25 to register

$15 for up to one additional guest

REGISTER HERE:

https://www.nesah.org/event-4962194

Upper Connecticut River Valley Talk & Tour of Painted Walls

Sun, 21 Aug 2022 22:24:00 GMT

NESAH invites you to join a special talk and tour offered by our friends at the Center for Painted Wall Preservation (CPWP)!

The event will take place on Saturday, September 24 and features an introductory talk about the history of painted walls followed by tours of four private homes, two in Vermont and two in New Hampshire, that feature outstanding examples of painted walls from the late-18^th and early-19^th centuries. These private homes are not typically open to the public, so this is a rare opportunity to see these historic houses and their amazing painted walls.

Read about the tour here for more information. Registration for the tour is through the CPWP, and you can sign up online here.

43rd Annual Student Symposium

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:25:16 GMT

The New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to share information on the 43rd Annual Student Symposium, which will be a virtual conference taking place on April 9, 2022.

To register to attend the symposium, please click here: registration.

2022 NE/SAH Directors' Night

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:23:38 GMT

Monday, March 28, 2022

7:00 pm
Presented via Zoom.

Pre-registration for this free event is required. Please register here!

LECTURE: “A Purposeful Monument”: Designing the Milwaukee Center for the Performing Arts, 1966-1969 by Sarah Horowitz

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:21:15 GMT

NE/SAH is pleased to host a lecture from our 2021 John Coolidge Fellowship recipient, Sarah Horowitz of Boston University. Pre-registration for this free event is required.

Monday, February 28, 2022

7:00 pm
Presented via Zoom. Pre-registration for this free event is required. Please register here!

BOOK TALK: A Multisensory Approach to the History of Renaissance Architecture by David Karmon

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 20:17:55 GMT

Monday, October 18, 2021

7:00 pm
Presented via Zoom

Pre-registration for this free lecture is required. Please register here!

42nd Annual Student Symposium

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 20:05:30 GMT

The New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to share information on the 42nd Annual Student Symposium, which will be a virtual conference taking place on June 26, 2021.

To register to attend the symposium, please click here: registration.

To view a program including the detailed schedule for the symposium, please click here: program.

2021 John Coolidge Research Fellowship

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:07:40 GMT

The Fellowship Committee of the New England chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (NESAH) is pleased to announce Sarah Horowitz as the recipient of the 2021 John Coolidge Research Fellowship.

Sarah Horowitz is a PhD candidate in the history of art and architecture at Boston University. Her dissertation, “Designing Postwar American Performing Arts Centers, 1955-1971”, focuses on the architectural and urban history of these cultural buildings and complexes across four regions of the United States. Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, she was the curatorial assistant at the Picker Art Gallery and the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University where she organized a number of permanent collection and special exhibitions. She has also held curatorial and collections research positions at the MIT Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Sarah currently serves as the Editorial Assistant for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. She received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst and B.A. in Art History and Museum Studies from Marlboro College.

The NESAH John Coolidge Research Fellowship will support her doctoral research on the construction of postwar American performing arts centers, specifically the study of the Milwaukee Center for the Performing Arts, with travel to the site and archival collections in Milwaukee and Chicago. Designed by American architect Harry Weese between 1966 and 1969, the Milwaukee performing arts center embodies larger ambitions of postwar urban and cultural redevelopment in America’s cities.

LECTURE: Architecture’s History Problem: Framing Built Environment Studies through Black Epistemologies by Jay Cephas

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 21:08:39 GMT

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

6:00 pm
Presented via Zoom.

Pre-registration for this free event is required. Please register here!

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2025 Fellowship Winners Announced

The Fellowship Committee of NESAH is excited to announce our two 2026 fellowship winners, Sarah Moses of Harvard and Joshua Tan of MIT.

Sarah Moses, 2026 John Coolidge Dissertation Fellowship Winner

Joshua Tan, 2026 Robert Rettig Annual Meeting Fellowship Winner

Directors' Night 2026

Virtual Lecture: Henry Hobson Richardson: Drawings from the Collection of the Houghton Library, Harvard University

Virtual Lecture: Richard's House on Sippican Harbor, Revisited

DEADLINE EXTENDED: 46th Annual NESAH Student Symposium

Virtual Lecture: Far-Flung Frontier: American Basing Negotiations with Iceland, 1945-1947

Virtual Lecture: Wooden Churches in Wartime Ukraine

NESAH 2025 Annual Meeting

2025 John Coolidge Research Fellowship Winner

2025 Robert Rettig Annual Meeting Fellowship Winner

Coolidge Fellowship Deadline Extension

Event Announcement: Directors' Night 2025

Call for Papers: 45th Annual NESAH Student Symposium

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LECTURE: "Ambitions, Assumptions, and Unintended Consequences: Understanding Britain's Imperial Institute," by Carter Jackson

2024 John Coolidge Research Fellowship Winner

2024 Robert Rettig Student Annual Meeting Fellowship Winner

2024 ANNUAL MEETING

ANNUAL MEETING: Save the date!

LECTURE: "The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building, 1870-1930" by Chelsea Spencer

44th Annual Student Symposium

2023 Directors' Night / Annual Meeting

Monday, February 277:00pm

Call for Papers: 2023 NESAH Student Symposium

Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Breakers, Newport, RI

Upper Connecticut River Valley Talk & Tour of Painted Walls

43rd Annual Student Symposium

2022 NE/SAH Directors' Night

LECTURE: “A Purposeful Monument”: Designing the Milwaukee Center for the Performing Arts, 1966-1969 by Sarah Horowitz

BOOK TALK: A Multisensory Approach to the History of Renaissance Architecture by David Karmon

42nd Annual Student Symposium

2021 John Coolidge Research Fellowship

LECTURE: Architecture’s History Problem: Framing Built Environment Studies through Black Epistemologies by Jay Cephas

Monday, February 27
7:00pm