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ON THE WATER: SALEM & THE NORTH SHORE September 15 - 19, 2021

The Decorative Arts Trust Invites You To Attend ON THE WATER: SALEM & THE NORTH SHORE njoy a wonderful coastal New England experience on Massachusetts’s North Shore, a region abounding with historic houses and impressive collections. Founded in 1629, Salem, the “City of Peace,” is of great importance. EThe second oldest settlement in New England (four years before Boston), Salem contains a rich maritime history built on international trade. This vibrant, pedestrian-friendly port town is best known for the infamous Witchcraft Trials of 1692 but features a bevy of beautifully preserved architecture, ranging from the late 17th century onward. Participants registering for the pre- and post-symposium tours will have the opportunity to explore the larger region, from Newburyport to Marblehead.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

Thursday, September 16, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Salem Waterfront Hotel

Welcoming Remarks and Opening Program Sponsored by:

The Jonathan L. Fairbanks Lecture A 40-Year Contribution to the Decorative Arts of Salem A conversation with Dean Lahikainen, The Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Art, Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), and Elizabeth Lahikainen, upholstery conservator

Hosted by Karina Corigan, Associate Director for Collections and the H.A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art, PEM

Opening Reception (Continued)

Clockwise from top left: Beauport, Castle Hill, Custom House, Coffin House, Salem from above Friday, September 17, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Saturday, September 18, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Out and About in Salem Peabody Essex Museum

Following introductory lectures on Salem’s development and architecture, Sneak Preview: The Putnam Galleries of Native and American Art we depart from the Salem Waterfront Hotel for a day exploring an array of Sarah Chasse, Associate Curator for Exhibitions and Research historic houses. A team of architectural historians orchestrates a sequence of walking tours to orient us to the scope of the town. At mid-day, we break for Japanomania: Japanese Art Goes Global lunch at Hamilton Hall, an important building designed in 1805 by Salem’s Karina Corigan, Associate Director for Collections and the H.A. Crosby premier Federal-era architect and master woodcarver, Samuel McIntire, Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art which features his famous flexible spring ballroom floor. While enjoying lunch, we hear about the Remond family, the African American caterers who In American Waters: Maritime Art operated the Hall in the 19th century. Dan Finamore, Associate Director for Exhibitions and the Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History The tour includes a splendid selection of houses. A masterpiece of Federal architecture by Samuel McIntire, the interior of the Gardner-Pingree Lunch is served in the historic East India Marine Hall where we benefit House (1804) features lavishly-carved woodwork including fireplace from remarks on the East India Marine Society by George Schwartz, mantels, cornices, internal window shutters, and stairway balustrades. Associate Curator for Exhibitions and Research.

The Pickering House is Salem’s oldest house, built in 1660 by settler John In the afternoon, we have the privilege of curator-guided tours at the Pickering, an English immigrant carpenter. The house’s library contains Peabody Essex Museum, enjoying an exclusive behind-the-scenes Revolutionary War documents, artifacts, and portraits, and the dining room exploration of new galleries and special exhibitions. The curatorial showcases entertaining in the early 1800s. The garden features a variety of staff shares how they reinterpreted this renowned collection to tell compel- historic trees. ling stories about the ongoing cultural exchanges between Salem and the wider world. We have the opportunity to delve into installations of the Samuel McIntire designed the Peirce-Nichols House (c. 1782) in a museum’s world-class holdings of Asian export art, fashion and design, transitional style between the late-Georgian and early-Federal modes and maritime art, American decorative arts, and a special visit to Yin Yu Tang, then remodeled portions of the house in a full Neoclassical taste 20 years the only complete Qing Dynasty house outside China. later. The estate originally swept down to the North River, where Captain Jerathmiel Peirce could dock his ship at the foot of his own property.

The Phillips House (c. 1821) sits on Salem’s famed Chestnut Street. Remodeled by the Phillips family shortly after purchasing the house in 1911, the dwelling combines a Federal exterior with a Colonial Revival interior. The kitchen, pantry, and a domestic staff bedroom present a rarely seen picture of how great houses were adapted to meet modern conveniences.

FUNDRAISER FOR THE TRUST’S EMERGING SCHOLARS PROGRAM AT THE HOME OF JONATHAN LORING

Friday, September 17, 6:00 pm

We are honored by the kind invitation to visit the home of Sunday, September 19, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Jonathan Loring, perched high above Salem Sound in Prides Salem Waterfront Hotel Crossing. A long-time member of the Decorative Arts Trust and an enthusiastic supporter of the Emerging Scholars Program, Will the Real Mr. King Please Stand Up? Cabinetmaker William King Jonathan is a descendant of multiple Salem ship captains. His of Salem Kemble Widmer, Independent Historian, and Brock Jobe, Professor 1940s house contains fine examples of Boston, North Shore, and Emeritus of American Decorative Arts, Winterthur Portsmouth furniture, and a distinctive art collection, including Boston-area artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, 18th century The Art of Japanning: A Look Beyond the 18th Century maps, and an extensive representation of watercolors by the Christine Thomson, Furniture Conservator, and Tara Cederholm, Georgian-era English artist, Thomas Rowlandson. Curator, The Crosby Company

Please join us for a wonderful evening of connoisseurship and John A.H. Sweeney Emerging Scholar Lecture conviviality as we toast to our host’s hospitality and lend support “Out on the Waters!”: Image and Meaning in an Indian Princess Ship to the Trust’s efforts to encourage the next generation of curators Figurehead and academics through a growing series of grants, scholarships, Sybil F. Johnson, PhD Candidate, Boston University and internships. In 2021, more than four dozen graduate The Marie Zimmerman Emerging Scholar Lecture students and young professionals will benefit from the Trust’s “Turn to Nature”: Joseph Everett Chandler’s Colonial Revival Transforma- Emerging Scholars Program in spite of the continued hindrances tion of Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens of the pandemic. Katharine F. Grant, Curatorial Fellow, The Trustees of Reservations

Symposium concludes PRE-SYMPOSIUM OPTIONAL TOURS Wednesday and Thursday, September 15 - 16

Option 1 Option 2 Departing Salem for Beverly, our first stop is atLong Hill (1916), a Colonial Departing Salem for North Andover, we reach Stevens-Coolidge Place, Revival brick house containing early-19th-century interiors from a Federal- an 18th-century farm that was adapted as a rural retreat in the 19th century. style Charleston mansion. This stately dwelling was the summer home of This summer home received an elegant Colonial Revival makeover by Joseph noted author and editor Ellery Sedgwick and his family until 1978. The five Chandler on behalf of John Gardner Coolidge. Our visit highlights the tre- acres of cultivated grounds are laid out in a series of garden “rooms” that mendous cataloguing and preservation project that has revitalized the house. blend seamlessly into the surrounding woodlands. The Historic New England curatorial staff takes us for an exclusive look Castle Hill (1928) near Ipswich is part of a 2,100-acre estate that features inside their collections storage and conservation labs in Haverhill. incredible gardens, sweeping views of the Atlantic, and the summer home This newly renovated, state-of-the-art facility houses the organization’s of Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Crane, Jr. The talented Chicago architect David exemplary decorative arts collection. Adler and the renowned Olmsted Brothers designed the house and land- Following lunch, we continue to Newburyport, which was first settled in scape, respectively. The ornate terraced gardens feature a magnificent grass 1635 and grew to prominence in the 18th century through shipbuilding and mall, the recently rejuvenated Italian Rose Garden, and the delightful mercantile activity. Casino, where we enjoy lunch. A 1797 Federal house was undergoing extensive restoration when we last The 18th-century Cogswell’s Grant in Essex was the summer home of visited, including returning both exterior and interiors to original paint colors pioneering American folk and decorative arts collectors Bertram K. and and installing historic window glass. That daunting task is now complete, Nina Fletcher Little. The rooms overflow with beautiful and curious 18th- allowing a study of the couples’ collection of mid-to-late-18th-century furni- and 19th-century objects that the Little’s amassed over 60 years, offering a ture documented to Salem and the North Shore. unique and important perspective on early Americana collecting. The Cushing House (1678) is a 21-room Federal house decked out with Perched on Gloucester’s Eastern Point, Beauport is an enchanting Arts fine furnishings and decorative pieces from the region. Collections of portraits, and Crafts-style cottage with a heralded collection of decorative arts. The silver, needlework, clocks, and early photographs are displayed, not to home of Henry Davis Sleeper, one of the country’s first professional interior mention the impressive holdings highlighting Newburyport’s early trade designers, Beauport was enormously influential on Henry Francis du Pont with China. as he set out to reimagine Winterthur. Touring its maze of rooms offers a romantic exploration of design and history. Our visit concludes with a The day concludes with a reception hosted by Trust Governor Tara reception in the garden overlooking Cape Ann. Cederholm and her husband, KC, at their early-19th-century house.

We enjoy an overnight stay at the splendid Beauport Inn in Gloucester, We retire to the Garrison Inn, an elegant boutique hotel in a landmark a modern building that incorporates historic architectural details to create a building constructed in 1809 (included in registration fee). uniquely comfortable space (included in registration fee). The morning begins in nearby Newbury and a visit to the late-17th-century The morning opens with a visit to the Cape Ann Museum, which preserves Coffin House, which was occupied by the Coffins over three centuries and and celebrates the history and culture of the North Shore and houses the contains many family furnishings. The house provides fascinating insight into largest collection of Fitz Henry Lane maritime and landscape paintings as domestic life in rural New England. well as many works by other prominent artists inspired by the area. We will Across the street sits the Peter Toppan House, which was built in 1697, also tour a new campus that opened in 2021 and includes a collections with a major addition about 1730. storage facility and three historic structures. The owners have assembled an ex- emplary collection appropriate for a Following a delicious seaside lunch at the Singing Beach Club in coastal Massachusetts home, includ- Manchester-by-the-Sea, we visit an expansive 1870s summer house ing furniture, stoneware, metalwork, featuring an eclectic collection of Asian decorative arts and American textiles, and prints. paintings. Now the year-round residence of a Massachusetts-based photographer, we have the chance to visit her studio as well. We proceed to Ipswich for a bespoke tour and fabulous lunch at Castle Hill before finishing the outing at Cogswell’s Grant. (Continued)

Opposite page, clockwise from top left: Gardner-Pingree House, Pickering House, PEM; Above, clockwise from top left: Stevens-Coolidge Place, Beauport, Cape Ann Museum, Cogswell’s Grant, High Chest from the Peter Toppan House, Castle Hill POST-SYMPOSIUM OPTIONAL TOUR Marblehead Sunday, September 19, 12:00 - 7:00 pm

Our Sunday excursion starts on Marblehead Neck with lunch at the The Colonel Jeremiah Lee Mansion (1768) was built for the wealthiest Corinthian Yacht Club, which provides stunning views of Marblehead’s merchant in Colonial Massachusetts. Many of the Mansion’s original old town from across the harbor. decorative elements have been preserved, including rare 18th-century English hand-painted wallpapers, the only such wall treatments surviving Upon reaching Marblehead proper, we benefit from an introduction to the in place. The house features an outstanding collection of decorative arts, port’s history at the Town Hall (1876) from Judy Anderson a historian including furniture from Boston, Salem, and Marblehead. of Marblehead decorative art and architecture. Judy brings us on a stroll through the town’s extensive 18th-century built environment, including some Our day concludes with the rare opportunity to enjoy a festive reception of the nearly 300 houses that survive from before 1775, when Marblehead in an elegant 18th-century space, as we gather in the Lee Mansion’s parlor was the tenth most populous metropolis in British North America and sec- to toast five days of exploration on the North Shore. ond largest in Massachusetts. We include a stop at a lovely privately owned 18th-century dwelling.

The King Hooper Mansion was built in 1728 for merchant Robert “King” Hooper and enlarged to its present size in 1745. Once the storefront of renowned antiques dealer Israel Sack, the house showcases preserved interi- ors and is admired for its lovely gardens.

Across the corner from the Hooper Mansion sits the Marblehead Museum’s J.O.J. Frost Folk Art Gallery, named for an early-20th-century untrained artist who painted historic scenes using materials he had on hand. Participants also have the opportunity to enjoy workshops on 18th-century Marblehead furniture or the Arts and Crafts-period Marblehead Pottery.

Jeremiah Lee Mansion

ACCOMMODATIONS

Hotel: Salem Waterfront Hotel & Suites, 225 Derby Street, salemwaterfronthotel.com

Special Room Rates: A block of rooms is reserved for September 14–20. Full, Queen, and King Superior Rooms are $209, except for Friday and Saturday, which are $289. A limited number of Suites are available for $309, except for Friday and Saturday, which are $389. These rooms are available on a first-come first-served basis until August 3. Please make your reservations as soon as possible to ensure availability by calling 888.337.2536 and referencing the Decorative Arts Trust.

Travel: Salem is only 15 miles north of Boston Logan Airport. Transportation can be arranged through Boston Chauffeur at 978-921-4334. If driving, parking for overnight guests is complimentary.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS Itinerary: The schedule, sites, and events outlined in this itinerary are subject to change as necessary. Registration fee: $1,025 per person, which includes all lectures, tours, meals, receptions, and transportation referenced in symposium brochure as Membership: All participants must be members of the Decorative Arts well as a $50 tax-deductible donation to the Dewey Lee Curtis Scholarship Trust. Please select a level of membership if you are not currently a member Fund to underwrite symposium scholarships (see below). Participants may (see below). For a list of membership benefits, visit decorativeartstrust.org/ elect to make an additional donation through registration. join. Members at the Sponsor level and above are invited to a special event during the symposium. Dewey Lee Curtis Symposium Scholarships: The Trust awards two scholarships per symposium for graduate students or young professionals. n Student & Young Professional $25 n Individual $50 Applications can be submitted through the Trust’s website and are due by n Dual $90 n Patron $150 n Benefactor $300 August 4. n Sponsor $500 n Director $1,000 n Ambassador $2,500 n Champion $5,000 Optional programs: The Pre-Symposium Optional Tours are $625 for a single registration, $975 for two participants sharing a room. Prices include Cancellation and Refund: All cancellations received prior to June 30, hotel accommodations for the night. The Post-Symposium Optional Tour 2021, are subject to a full refund less a $100 administrative fee per person. is $325 per person. The Friday evening fundraiser for the Trust’s Emerging Participants canceling between June 30 and August 15, 2021, will receive Scholars Program is $250 per person, fully tax deductible. All fees include a 50% refund. Refunds will not be made after August 15, 2021. transportation, admission, and food and beverage as referenced in the symposium brochure. Registration for optional programs is limited. Participation: The program is limited to a maximum of 50 members. We will organize and maintain waiting lists on the basis of the time registrations are received.