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Newsletter the Society of Architectural Historians NEWSLETTER THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS FEBRUARY 1970 VOL. XIV NO . 1 PUBLISHED SIX TIMES A YEAR BY THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS 1700 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19103 JAMES F . O'GORMAN, PRESIDENT EDITOR: JAMES C. MASSEY, 614 S. LEE STREET, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 22314. ASSOCIATE EDITOR: MRS. MARIAN CARD DONNELLY, 2175 OLIVE STREET, EUGENE, OREGON 97405 SAH OFFICE RS AT THE A NNUAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT THE A NNUA L MEETIN G ME E TIN G IN WASHIN GTON Th e January meeting of the board include d both th e out­ L e ft to right: Spiro Kostof, Second Vi ce President, Rosann go ing and incoming members, plus past presidents and S. Berry, Exe cutive Se cretary, James F. O'Gorman, Presi­ editors. dent, Winston R. We is man, Secre tary, A lan Gowans, First PHOTO: JACK E- BOUCHER Vic e Pres ident, and David R. Coffin, Treasurer. sity of New Mexico, Chairman. Tour limited to 75 members. PHOTO: JACK E. BOUCHER If there is sufficient response to fill one bus (30- 40 mem­ SAH NEWS bers), an extension tour will be held October 11-14 under New Officers. Following First Vice-President A. Henry Professor Bunting's direction, starting from Santa Fe and Detweiler's attack of heart disease in early January and visiting Abiquiu, Mesa Verde National Park and points his withdrawal from the slate of officers to be elected at the between. Announcement of the tour will reach the mem­ Washington annual meeting, the Nominating Committee bership about May 1, 1970. was reconvened and proposed James F . 0' Gorman for 1971 ANNUAL TOUR - Charleston, South Carolina, Mrs. President. At the annual business meeting the following S. Henry Edmunds, Historic Charleston Foundation, Chair­ were elected: President, James F. O' Gorman, University man, October 28-31, of Pennsylvania; First Vice-President, Alan W. Gowans, 1971 FOREIGN TOUR - Northern Cities in Britain: Their University of Victoria; Second Vice-President, Spiro K. Architecture and Development in the 19th Century. Frank Kostof, University of California, Berkeley; Secretary, I. Jenkins, University of Manchester, Chairman, August Win s ton R. Weisman, Pennsylvania State University; and 12-22. Announcement of the tour will reach the member­ Treasurer, David R. Coffin, Princeton University. ship about November 1, 1970. On January 31, the Society was saddened by news of 1972 FOREIGN TOUR -Japan. Professor Detweiler's death on the previous evening. A Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Thanks memorial service will be held for him in Sage Chapel, are due to all those members who responded to the recent Cornell University, Monday, March 23, at 2 p.m. A special request for special contributions for the Journal, and those fund has been established, called the "A. Henry Detweiler who have yet to respond are urged to do so soon. Monies Memorial, Sardis Fund; " contributions may be sent to the collected will be added to the Special Publications Fund, Fund at the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, and oversized issues of the Journal will begin to appear Massachusetts 02138. in the near future. Nominating Committee. Elisabeth MacDougall has been Editor Osmund R. Overby has appointed as Book Re­ appointed Chairman of the Nominating Committee for 1970 view Editor: Christian F. Otto, Department of Art History, by President James F. O'Gorman. Suggestions should be University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wise. 53706, to replace sent to Mrs. MacDougall at 269 Mt. Auburn Street, Cam­ James F. O'Gorman who has been elected SAH President. bridge, Mass. 02138. Book Award Committee. President James F. O'Gorman 1970 ANNUAL MEETING has named Adolf K. Placzek Chairman of the Book Award Contributed by Suzann e Ganschinie tz Committee for 1970. Suggestions for possible books to be The Society's 23rd Annual Meeting was held in Wa s hington, considered for the SAH Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award D.C., January 28 - February 1, in conjunction with the should be sent to Mr. Placzek at Avery Architectural College Art Association. The meeting this year was Library, Columbia University, New York, N .Y. 10027. marked by sadness, the death of First Vice-President and Forthcoming Tours General Chairman A. Henry Detweiler on Friday, January 30. 1970 ANNUAL TOUR - Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico The excellent and well-organized meeting serves as testa­ (and vicinity), October 6-10, Bainbridge Bunting, Univer- ment to Professor Detweiler's concern and work. The local committee is to be congratulated for a smooth, BOOK A WARD WI NN ER ably run meeting. The members making up the local com­ President H enry A . Millon mittee were: Richard H. Howland and James C. Massey, congratulates th e w inner Chairmen; Charles Atherton, Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, of the 1969 Alice Dav i s Hitchcock Book Award, Ja mes Biddle, Ernest A. Connally, Miss Virginia Daiker, Phyllis Williams L e hmann Carl Feiss, Mrs . Mary Mix Foley, Neil R. Greene, Francis of Smith Colle g e . D. Lethbridge, Mrs. Terry Brust Morton, William J. Murtagh, PHOTO: JACK E. BOUCHER D. Worthington Pearre, George E. Pettengill, Mrs. Nancy Dixon Schultz, and Joseph Watterson. Convention volun­ teers were Mrs. Howard Adams, Mrs. Neil R. Greene, Mrs . Forbes Hall, Mrs . D. Worthington Pearre, Mrs. John C. Poppeliers, and Mrs. Constance Werner Ramirez. Annual Business Meeting. The Society's Annual Business Since 1965 Professor Lehmann has been Advisory Meeting was held at 4:15p.m., January 29, at the Sheraton­ Director of the excavations in Samothrace conducted by Park Hotel. As was aptly pointed out by one member, the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She has perhaps in the future a luncheon meeting might again be served as Editor of the Bollingen Series LX since 1960, in order; not only would it make the meeting an "occasion,'' and has also been Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at the but it would also guarantee lunch for the participants. Institute of Fine Arts since 1962. Professor Lehmann The first order of business presented by President Henry has published extensively in the fields of art, archaeology A. Millon was a motion for an expression of sorrow at not and architectural history. She has been the recipient of a having First Vice-President A. Henry Detweiler present. Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Research Grant, a The motion was seconded and passed. Mr. Millon ex­ Bollingen Fellowship, and ·is an honorary member of Phi plained that Mr. Detweiler's withdrawal as President­ Beta Kappa. elect had thrown the officers into a quandary, for there is The Membership. As of December 31, 1969, the SAH no s pecific Bylaw provision dea ling with this situation. membership totalled 3,448, after the year's deletions. The Nomination Committee re-formed with Stanford Anderson During the past year 391 new members were enrolled, as temporary chairman (in the chairman's absence), and including four life members. propos ed James F. O'Gorman for President. The Board of The Annual Banquet. The joint SAH-CAA Banquet was Directors endorsed this action, and the members ratified held Friday evening, January 30. The distinguished the a ction. speaker was Nancy Hanks, Chairman, National Endowment The site for the convention in 1971 will be Chicago, for the Arts. Miss Hanks spoke of the growing trend and and in 1972, San Francisco. In 1973, the SAH will not growing awareness on the part of the young towards the meet jointly with the CAA in New York, but instead will arts, and the challenge of the schools and government to meet at a different time, and will ask the membership to meet and to provide for this interest. indica te their choice of site. The three choices are: Abstracts. Abstracts of the papers read at the annual London, Mexico City and New Orleans. In 1974 the joint meeting may be purchased from the SAH office at $1.25. SAH-CAA meeting will be held in Montreal, in 1975 in Ka nsas City, and in 1976 in Philadelphia. Georgetown Tour and Reception. Saturday afternoon tour The loca l committee was thanked for all the work they participants were treated to an excellent tour of George­ had done with arrangements, as was Executive Secretary town. The tour was highlighted by visits to Healy Build­ Rosano S. Berry for her help in preparing the meeting. ing, Georgetown University, 1877-9, Smithmeyer and The Trea surer' s report was read and accepted by the Pelz; Christ Episcopal Church, 1886-7, Henry Laws; membership. Approval of the new Joint (husband and Dumbarton Oaks, Pre-Columbian museum, 1963, Philip wife) membership category was given by the membership. Johnson; the grounds of Evermay (courtesy of Capt. and Chairman Robert Branner of the Book Award Committee Mrs . Peter Belin), and thanks are also due to former announced a change in policy in book award selection - Ambassador and Mrs. Burgess for allowing the group to the Award will now cover books published within the pre­ tour their home, the converted carriage house of the Laird­ ceding two years. Dunlop-Lincoln house. The excellent tour booklet, and Robert Branner, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, the perfect timing (a miracle for Georgetown on a Saturday reporting for the Committee, which also consisted of afternoon), merit special thanks to tour leaders: Charles Stanford Anderson, Bainbridge Bunting, David R. Coffin Atherton, Donald B. Myer and Daniel E. Reiff; tour as­ and Ernes t A. Connally, presented the slate of officers sistants: James C. Massey, M. Hamilton Morton, Jr., and and directors, as follows: President, James F. O'Gorman; Mrs . Terry B. Morton. The tour ended with a reception First Vice-President, Alan W. Gowans; Second Vice­ at the Old Patent Office in the Fine Arts and Portrait President, Spiro K.
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