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q;.'-C H IT E C T U R11("' u. IUJlllJl]JifllS ~ NEWSLETTER : IFIIIHI!1lUllJfffiS = THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS t: rill!Eilllllil SlilffiS ~ vo s · 194([]) • s \1~ JUNE 1969 VOL. XIII, NO. 3 PUBLISHED SIX TIMES A YEAR BY THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS 1700 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19103 HENRY A. MILLON, PRESIDENT EDITOR: JAMES C. MASSEY , 614 S. LEE STREFT, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 22314. ASSOCIATE EDITOR: MARIAN CARD DONNELLY, 2175 OLIVE STREET, EUGENE, OREGON 97405 SAH NEWS Vice President; Mrs. Thomas Slade, Treasurer; Miss Tours. DOMESTIC. 1969 Annual Tour - Richmond, Va., Harriet M. Smith, Field Museum of Natural History, October 15-19. A few places will be available for guests Secretary. or husbands or wives of SAH members after July 1. 1970 Latrobe Chapter of Washington. A walking tour of Water Annual Tour - New Mexico and southern Colorado, Octo ford, Va., was conducted by the Latrobe Chapter on April ber 9-18 (Prof. Bainbridge Bunting, University of New 12. On May 7 the Chapter, together with the Smithsonian Mexico, Chairman). The tour will include architecture of Associates sponsored a lecture in the Auditorium of the the region, 800 A.D. to the present in the areas of Mesa Museum of History and Technology by Bernard Feilden, Verde, Abiquiu, Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque. 1971 FRIBA, of Norwich, England, archite~t in charge of the Annual Tour - Charleston, S.C. (Mrs. S. Henry Edmunds, restorations of Norwich Cathedral and York Minster. After Historic Charleston Foundation, Chairman). 1972 Annual the annual business meeting held at the Arts Club on Tour - Mid-Hudson River Area. 1973 Annual Tour - May 28, the Chapter held a reception honoring A. Henry ' ' Richardson and his Contemporaries'' (Robert Bell Rettig, Detweiler, First Vice President, SAH, and Mrs. Rosann S. Cambridge Historical Commission, Chairman). Berry, Executive Secretary, SAH. Missouri Valley Chapter. Theodore Seligson, President, Tours. FOREIGN. 1969-70 Foreign Tour~ Mexico (Yuca and other members of the Missouri Valley Chapter assisted tan-Oaxaca-Mexico City), December 28, 1969- January 8, in a tour of Kansas City in May, sponsored by the Guild 1970 (Prof. John D. Haag, Dept. of Fine Arts, University of the Friends of Art. The tour included four houses, five of Colorado, Chairman). Although the main emphasis of commercial buildings and one church. the tour will be Pre-Columbian (including visits to Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, Kabah, Chichen Itza, Mitla, Lambityeco, Northern Pacific Coast. The spring meeting of the Chapter Monte Alban, Yagul, Teotihuacan, and the new excavations was held on March 29 in Santa Cruz, California. After a at Cholula), some significant Spanish Colonial sites will business meeting, a tour of the University of California be visited. The tour announcement will reach the member (Santa Cruz) slide collection, and a luncheon, the session ship by September 1, 1969. 1970 Foreign Tour - Bavarian concluded with a walking tour of Santa Cruz. The fall Baroque, August 18 - September 1, 1970 (Jiirgen Paul, meeting will be held at Jacksonville, Oregon, on October 18. Kunsthistorisches Institut, University of Tiibingen, Chair Philadelphia. Members of the Chapter were invited to the man). The tour will begin and end in Munich, and will in Athenaeum on May 16 for a lecture by Alec Clifton-Taylor, clude Die Wies, Ottobeuren, Wiirzburg (Residenz), Vier visiting English architectural historian, based on his zehnheiligen, Pommersfelden and Weltenburg, as well as recent book The Englishness of English Cathedrals. The mediaeval towns and churches (Rothenburg, Bamberg, and Chapter conducted a tour of Cape May, New Jersey, on Regensburg). Announcement of the tour will be sent to the June 14, at which William J. Murtagh, Keeper of the membership on or about November 1, 1969. 1971 Foreign National Register, was guest speaker. Tour- Northern Cities in Britain: Their Architecture and University of Virginia. Slide lectures on "Russian Archi Development in the 19th Century, August 12-22, 1971 tecture - a Survey'' and ''Architecture of the Chicago (Prof. Frank I. Jenkins, School of Architecture, University School" have been given by members of the Chapter this of Manchester, Chairman). Centers to be visited include year. On April 10, Perry E . Borchers of Ohio State spoke Manchester, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Leeds. 1972 on ''Architectural Photogrammetry- Photographic Measure Foreign Tour - Early Modern Architecture in Central ment of Architectural Forms" and the next afternoon , Europe (tentative). 1973 Foreign Tour- Japan (tentative). April 11, he presented a demonstration of ''Stereoscopic Projection - Binocular Perception of Architecture and Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee for Space." 1969 will be chaired by Robert Branner with Stanford Western Reserve Architectural Historians. On March 16, Anderson, Bainbridge Bunting, David R. Coffin and Ernest the Chapter met at the Western Reserve Historical Society A. Connally also serving. to hear Mrs. Patricia Ingram of Pittsburgh lecture on "Early Book Award Committee. The Book Award Committee for Courthouses of Ohio." The Chapter's annual Spring Tour 1969 is composed of Robert Branner, Chairman, Alfred K. was held on May 25 under the direction of Martin Linsey Frazer and William H. Jordy. The Committee requests and Mrs. Peter Hitchcock and consisted of a bus and walk suggestions of books to be considered. ing tour of Painesville, Ohio, in particular the residences of Jon a than Goldsmith and the impressive St. James Epis CHAPTERS copal Church (1866) by Charles Heard. Chicago. Peter Willis, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Treasurer, SAH-GB), spoke on "Symbolism in the English Landscape ORGANIZATIONS Garden" at a meeting of the Chicago Chapter held at the Central New York Architectural Historians. The 1969 Gles sner House on May 3 . New officers were also elected, Spring Tour of the Central New York Architectural Historians including H. Fred Koeper, University of Illinois at Chicago was held Saturday, May 17, in Jefferson County, N.Y. Circle, Pres ident; Paul Sprague, University of Chicago, Members met at the Jefferson County Historica l Society Museum in Watertown for a lecture on Sackets Harbor and JOlnt meeting of the National Trust for Scotland and the then went on a walking tour of Watertown. After luncheon Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland on con the group proceeded to Sackets Harbor for a visit to the servation, preservation and the historic sites program in battlefield and various buildings including Madison Bar the United States ... STEFAN MUTHESIUS has been racks and the Elisha Camp House. appointed Assistant Lecturer in the History of Art at the The Victorian Society in America. Last November's tour University of East Anglia, Norwich, England ... CHARLES of Brooklyn residential areas was repeated by the Victorian E. PETERSON, FAIA, has been elected a member of the Society on May 18. Beginning at Borough Hall, buses took honorary Carpenters Company of Philadelphia ... CLYDE members to Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Park Slope F. TRUDELL, Sausalito, Calif., Vice President of the before a luncheon at the Montauk Club (built by Francis Marin County Historical Society, has been commissioned H. Kimball in 1891 ). During the afternoon visits were to restore La Casa de Estudillo and La Casa de Machado, made to the Bedford and Stuyvesant areas, Clinton Hill two historic adobes in Old Town San Diego, in addition and Fort Greene. to other restorations in Old Sacramento and San Juan The National Trust for Scotland. After an extensive visit Bautista ... CONSTANCE VECCHIONE, Albany, N.Y., is in April to the properties held by the National Trust for now Senior Curator, Historic Sites Division, New York Scotland, William]. Murtagh (SAH), Keeper of the National Office of State History ... PETER WILLIS, Newcastle upon-Tyne (SAH-GB) lectured on English landscape gardens Register, reported on the activities of this organization and also of the Association for the Preservation of Rural at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Oregon in May ... CHARLES B. WOOD, Woodstock, Scotland. Conservation of buildings has been under way Conn., lectured on early architectural treatises at the for some time, and interpretation centers are being built 21st Williamsburg Antiques Forum in February and at at important sites. Inquiries about properties, activities Columbia University and the Winterthur Museum graduate and publications of the National Trust for Scotland may seminar in March ... We regret to report the deaths of SAH be addressed to Mr. J. C. Stormonth-Darling, Secretary, members BROTHER CA]ETAN ]. B. BAUMANN, OFM, 5 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. FAIA, New York, WILLIAM S. BURGETT, University of NEWS OF MEMBERS Oklahoma, EDWARD]. HILLS, Architect, Scarsdale, N.Y., HARDINGE SCHOLLE, Washington, D.C., and VERNE S. A. HENRY DETWEILER, MICHAEL M. HARRIS, JOHN M. SWAN, Architect, Utica, N.Y. JOHANSEN, ALAN K. LAING, HARLEY J. McKEE and GYO OBATA have been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, a lifetime honor COURSES AND CONFERENCES bestowed for outstanding contribution. O'NEIL FORD, American Association for State and Local History. The FAIA, and JOSEPH D. MURPHY, FAIA, were on the jury American Association for State and Local History, in co for the selection ... The American Council of Learned operation with the Office of State History of the State Societies has awarded Grants-in-Aid to FRAN\=OIS Education Department of New York, aided by a grant from BUCHER, Princeton University, and WILLIAM L. Mac the National Endowment for the Humanities, has announced DONALD, Smith College ... The American Association a two-week seminar on the "Management and Interpretation for State and Local History has awarded Grants-in-aid for of History Museums," Albany, N.Y., October 12-24, 1969. the research and writing of local history to CHARLES B. Twenty persons from across the country will be selected HOSMER, JR., Principia College, Elsah, Ill., and ROYSTON to attend the seminar, each person receiving a fellowship LYLE, JR., George C.