NEWSLETTER THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS AUGUST 1971 VOL. XV NO.4 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 NOTICES ORGANIZATIONS Domestic Tours. 1972, H.H. RICHARDSON, HIS CON­ APT. The Association for Preservation Technology will TEMPORARIES AND HIS SUCCESSORS IN BOSTON AND hold its third General Meeting September 30-0ctober 3 at VICINITY, August 23-27 (Robert B. Rettig, Chairman); Cooperstown, N.Y. SAH member Harley J. McKee is Pres­ 1973, PHILADELPHIA; 1974, UTICA, NEW YORK and ident. For information and membership ($1 0), write Meredith vicinity. Sykes, Box 2682, Ottawa 4, Ontario, Canada. Foreign Tour. 1972, JAPAN (Bunji Kobayashi, Chairman National Trust. The Trust's Annual Meeting and Preser­ and Teiji Ito, Co-Chairman). Announcements will reach vation Conference will be in San Diego, California October the membership in the United States and Canada on or 28-31. There will also be a regional preservation con­ r about September 1, 1971. ference in New Orleans October 15-16. For information 1972 Annual Meeting. San Francisco, January 26-30. address the National Trust for Historic Preservation 740-8 Group Flights : Thirty affirmative responses have been Jackson Place, N .W., Washington, D.C. 20006. received for the Wednesday, January 26 flight New York­ SAH-GB. The 1971 Annual Conference will be held San Francisco-New York (25 are required); but only 16 re­ September 10-12 at the University of St. Andrews on the sponses have been returned for the Chicago-San Francisco­ subject of Scottish Vernacular and Early Renaissance Chicago flight (25 required). Persons interested in flights Architecture. The 1972 conference will be held in Bath. from either city, should write the SAH office (1700 Walnut Victorian Society (GB). The Society's Annual Conference St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19103) for information. will be held September 24-26, 1971 at Selwyn College, Cambridge, devoted to Victorian Religion. For infor­ 1973 ANNUAL MEETING- FOREIGN TOUR mation: The Secretary, Victorian Society, 29 Exhibition In May of this year, I went to England to meet with the Road, London SW7, England. Executive Committee of SAH-Great Britain and to begin AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF planning for the 1973 annual meeting-"foreign tour," ARCHITECTS' CONVENTION August 15-27. As previously announced, the sessions will be held jointly with our affiliated Society from August DETROIT, MICHIGAN 16-19. The sessions will be held, as SAH-Great Britain For many SAH-AIA members, the AlA convention in traditionally does, at a University center - in this case, Detroit began on Sunday evening, June 20, with the Mc­ either Oxford or Cambridge. During the stay at the chosen Graw-Hill J azzfest, a unique event for Cass Gilbert's University, there will be ample opportunity to tour the fifty-year-old Detroit Public Library. immediate area, under the guidance of members of the A Preservation Breakfast the following morning pro­ British Society. vided an opportunity for architects from all parts of the The "foreign tour" portion of this meeting will begin country to exchange experiences and mutual concerns. A on August 19, 1973, when most of the members of our distressing observation from Giorgio Cavaglieri, SAH, of Society in attendance will transfer to the Royal Garden New York City, related to larceny at a restoration site Hotel, London. Members of S,AH-Great Britain have gra­ where law enforcement officials could not be persuaded ciously offered to lead several tours for our members to protect valuable and irreplaceable building elements during the week's stay in London. Tentatively, three day­ which were systematically stripped from the structure they long tours are planned: Brighton; Cambridge or Oxford had graced for nearly a century. (whichever University is not used for the sessions); and A new wing of the Detroit Institute of Arts was the Canterbury, via Tunbridge Wells. A fourth tour - to Bath setting for the investiture of sixty-two Fellows of the and Bristol - will begin on Sunday, August 19, from the American Institute of Architects, including SAH members Edmund M. Bacon, Philadelphia; Lawrence A. Enersen, University center used for the sessions; the group will go Nebraska; Frederick D. Nichols, Virginia; Walter G. Peter, to Dyrham Park that evening, have an overnight stay in Jr. (posthumous), Washington, D.C.; William F. Vosbeck, Bristol, continue touring on August 20, and transfer that Jr., Virginia; and Payson Rex Webber, Vermont. The Pres­ evening to the Royal Garden Hotel. In addition to these ident's reception followed on Monday evening in the older, longer tours, several half-day ones in the London met­ Paul Cret-designed portion of the building. ropolitan area will be planned and led by members of SAH­ A bus tour of Detroit Tuesday morning emphasized Great Britain. recent construction although it provided glimpses of the To provide a substantial reduction in airfares, every 1848 Sibley House and the 1894 David Whitney, Jr. House. effort will be made to arrange charter flights, New Y ark­ A walking tour in the afternoon included eight houses in London-New York, Chicago-London-Chicago, and - if at Indian Village, a residential area developed in the early all possible - San Francisco-London-San Francisco. twentieth century and recently designated an historic The theme of the sessions and further details of the district. Its mansions include some whose owners di­ 1973 annual meeting will be reported upon in future News­ rected the early development of the auto industry. Although letters. Contributed by Rosann S. Berry, Executive Secretary their massing and details draw from a variety of styles, the houses are comparable in scale and ~oget.her for~ :a NEWS OF MEMBERS neighborhood of exemplary integrity. T~e Interwrs exhibit CARL F. BARNES, JR. has accepted the chairmanship of rich materials and careful craftsmanship as we 11 as the the Department of Art at Oakland University, Ro.chester, mechanical ingenuity which the clients might have been Mich. Professor Barnes, historian of medieval architecture, expected to appreciate. Pewabic tile, a locally produced whose work is known to the readers of the Journal was material was used generously. Albert Kahn was the formerly a member of the Department of Art History at the architec; of several houses in the district and Louis University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has most re.cently Kamper, a locally prominent architect, built his own been conducting excavations at the cathedral at So~ss?ns elegant house there in 1915. Orchestra Hall, the subject of an eleventh hour pres­ . .. JOHN CODMAN, Boston realtor ~nd J?reservatlom.st, has received the Annual Award for Histone Preservation ervation effort since last September, was open on Wed­ of the Boston Society of Architects ... Among the recipi­ nesday evening so that the visiting archite~ts could. ~ee ents of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation its interior and appreciate its superb acoustical qualltie.s fellowships this year are WALTER CREESE, BATES as demonstrated by the principal cellist of the Detr_olt LOWRY and CERVIN ROBINSON ... ERIC N. DE LONY, Symphony. Built in 1919, it exemplif~es a building which of the National Park Service's Historic American Engi­ because of its functional exce lienee wIll be recovered from neering Record, has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship appalling neglect. Its restoration will require extensive to study industrial archeology in England ....THOMA~ S. repairs which would not have been necessary a year or HINES received a UCLA Faculty Fellowship for fwal two ago, a powerful argument for maintenance. research and writing of a biography of Daniel Burnham, It has become a tradition for the host chapter to prepare which will entail a trip to the Philippines to study Burn­ a guide to the architecture of the AlA convention c!ty. ham's city planning in Manila and Baguio ... EDWARD This year's Detroit A rchitectur~, AI A . Guzde w.as edited RICHARD HOERMANN, University of Cincinnati, has r~­ by Katharine Mattingly Meyer With an wtroductwn by W. ceived a Fulbright grant for research in German expen­ Hawkins Ferry, SAH, whose 1968 The Buzldzngs of Detrozt ences with the decision process in urban design ... New was a source for much of the information. Published at dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at $2.95 by Wayne State University Press, its 202 pages i~­ Cornell University is KERMIT C. PARSONS, who succeeds clude photos and descriptions of historic and recent archi­ Burnham Kelly. Parsons, a planner, has been withCornell tecture in Cetroit, the adjacent suburbs and Ann Arbor since 1957 ... PHOEBE STANTON, has been named to the with eleven maps locating the illustrated buildings. William R. Kenan Professorship at Johns Hopkins University S. Scott Ferebee, Jr., FAIA, of Charlotte, N.C., was for her contributions to teaching and .scholarship ... JACK elected First Vice President (President-elect) of the WASSERMAN, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has American Institute of Architects for the year 1972. He received a grant from the American Council of Learned will assume office in December; a year later he will auto­ Societies for research on Leonardo da Vinci's series of matically succeed to the office of President of the 2~,000- the Virgin and Child with St. Anne. member professional organization. The man who will be Recent deaths of SAH members: FREDERIC COURT­ next President of the Institute, Max 0. Urbahn, FAIA, of LAND PALMER, architect of East Haddam, Conn., .noted New York City, was not involved in the balloting. He. is restoration architect, and for several years an assistant currently serving as First Vice Presi?ent, and will.