VOL. XXXIII NO. 2 APRIL 1989 liTJ(JTAS RRmrrns UEDU51BS - NEWSLETTER THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS SAH NOTICES the National Council on Public History Special Announcement in cooperation with the Society for 1990 Annual Meeting-Boston, Industrial Archeology, June 23 -30, 1989, Massachusetts (March 28-April 1 ). At the Annual Meeting in Montreal this month, the SAH will Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois. Elisabeth Blair MacDougall, Harvard Industrial history has become an in­ University (retired), will be general chair kick off its 50th Anniversary Fund Raising Campaign. The Board of creasingly important concern for cultural of the meeting. Keith Morgan, Boston resource professionals. Thirty-eight na­ University, will serve as local chairman. Directors has approved as a con­ cept and slogan for this campaign, tional parks and numerous state facilities Headquarters for the meeting will be the are already involved in interpreting tech­ Park Plaza Hotel. A Call for Papers for "$50 FOR THE 50th." It is our goal that every member (Active catego­ nological and industrial history to the the Boston meeting appears as a four public. In the wake of Lowell National page insert in this issue. Those who wish ry and higher) contribute at least $50 to one of the campaign pro­ Historical Park, industrial heritage initia­ to submit papers for the Boston meeting tives all across the country are being are urged to do so promptly, and in any grams to be announced at the Annual Meeting in Montreal. All linked to economic development and case before the deadline of August 31, tourism projects. The assessment, inter­ 1989. contributions will be tax de­ ductible. For further information pretation, and management of industrial contact David Bahlman, Executive sites, however, poses unique problems 1989 Domestic Tour-Los Angeles, for the historian. California-September 5-10. Robert Director, 1232 Pine Street, Phila­ delphia, PA 19107. The workshop is designed to help the Winter, Occidental College, will be the preservation professional deal with the leader of what promises to be a very ex­ challenges of factories, processing citing study tour. From early Missions to CONFERENCES plants, mines, transportation systems, the work of Greene and Greene, from and the communities related to them. AND WORKSHOPS Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry, Through lectures, discussions, and site from Hollywood Art Deco to Charles Horticultural Perspectives: Past and visits, the workshop will address the fol­ Moore, this tour will highlight the diver­ Present - An Historic Landscape lowing problems: sity of architectural styles found in Los Symposium sponsored by the Division How are significant industrial sites Angeles County. Furthermore, David of Historic Preservation of the Fairfax and landscapes documented? How is sig­ Gebhard will be our host and guide for a County Park Authority, will be held at nificance assessed? What does the recent day trip to Santa Barbara for houses and Green Spring Farm Park in Annandale historiography of industrialization offer gardens of George Washington Smith as on Saturday, May 20 from 9 a.m. to 5 the site interpreter? What are the appro­ well as other major architectural monu­ p.m. Registration is $35.00 and includes priate uses for industrial structures and ments. Tour announcements will reach lunch and an afternoon reception at the landscapes? How can industrial history the membership in late April or early historic Green Spring farmhouse. April be brought to life for the public? How May. registration is advised because space is can history be used to locate and assess limited. the hazardous waste risks at an industrial 1989 Foreign Tour-The English Speakers will discuss research and history site? Midlands (June 28 to July 19, 1989. restoration of gardens from the seven­ The workshop will be held at Loyola's Carol Herselle Krinsky, New York teenth to the twentieth centuries. Lakeshore Campus. Registration is $250. University, will be the leader of this tour. Featured speakers include John Pearce, Double occupancy dormitory rooms and Tour announcements have been sent to Assistant Director of the Center for meal plan for the week will total $280. the membership and members are urged Historic Preservation, Mary Washington Single rooms are available on request. to make their reservations as soon as College; J. Dean Norton of Mount Site visits will include the Illinois & possible. Vernon; Nicholas M. Luccketti of the Michigan Canal National Heritage James River Institute for Archaeology; Corridor, Pullman, the Museum of SPECIAL NOTE: SAH is pleased to an­ Dr. Richard W. Lighty of the Mount Science and Industry, and other industrial nounce that Modern Architecture in Cuba Center in Delaware and J. Timothy sites in the Chicago area. For registration Europe, A Guide to Buildings Since the Keller, ASLA, Principal, Land and or information: Contact Theodore J. Industrial Revolution, by Dennis and Community Associates, Charlottesville. Karamanski, History Department, Elizabeth DeWitt is now available from To register please call the Office of Loyola University, Chicago, IL 60626, the SAH office in paperback edition. The Museum Programs, Division of Historic phone (312) 508-2221. cost is $19.95, plus $1.50 postage and Preservation at (703) 759-5241. The Center for Urban Well-Being an­ handling, and can be ordered directly Preserving and Interpreting the nounces two Making Cities Livable from SAH, 1232 Pine Street, Phila­ Industrial Landscape is a workshop for Conferences during 1989. The first will delphia, PA 19107. preservation professionals, sponsored by be held in Venice, Italy, July 4-8, with participation limited to 100 people. The engineers, landscape architects, materials TO OUR READERS second is scheduled for October 24-28, scientists, conservators, archaeologists, in Charleston, South Carolina. Topics for craftsmen, and others involved in The Newsletter reaches you six times a the 1989 conferences will include: city preservation. year during the even months: February, and urban-space design case studies, April, June, August, October and urban texture, ecological imperatives for CALL FOR PAPERS December. Every effort is made by the new urban forms, appropriate urban ar­ editor and by the SAH office to deliver The Third National Conference on the text to our excellent printers, The chitecture, streetscape and urban-space American Planning History, co-spon­ design guidelines, and issues in restora­ Lowell Press in Kansas City, MO, in time sored by The Society for American City to mail the issue at the start of each even tion. For further information, write to: & Regional Planning History and The Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Ph.D. month. Bulk mail may delay your copy School of Planning, The University of several weeks. In order to keep the writ­ (Arch.), Making Cities Livable Con­ Cincinnati, will be held November 30- ference, Center for Urban Well-Being, ing, printing and mailing schedule it is December 2, 1989. Papers are most cor­ essential that the editor receive material Box QQQ, Southampton, NY 11968. Al­ dially solicited on all aspects of, and in ­ ternate address: P.O. Box 7586, Carmel, by the middle of the even month for pub­ fluences on, the history of planned com­ lication in the following even month. This CA 93921. munity development within the geo­ "Assessing Wright's Legacy: The results in the elimination of news of graphic confines of the area that is ~ur­ events whose dates do not coincide with Myth and the Reality of Frank Lloyd rently The United States of Amenca. Wright" will be the theme of the fourth our publication schedule. We beg your Each paper will be presented in a 40- understanding of this restriction. Further, annual Frank Lloyd Wright Symposium minute session, including an introduction to take place July 26-30, 1989, at a great deal of material is submitted and and 20-25 minutes of presentation by the there is not room for it all. We attempt to Domino's Farms, the home of Domino's author, followed by 15-20 minutes of Pizza, in Ann Arbor, MI. select a variety that is of interest to the open discussion. Proposals for the organi­ members in different professions and Highlights of the symposium include a zation of subject-focused panels are also two-day conference and round-table dis­ parts of the country. A questionnaire ~ill solicited. All subjects are invited. Papers be available to members soon concermng cussions with such notable speakers as on Cincinnati and the development of Eric Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright's how best the SAH and the Newsletter can communities and regions associated with serve you. grandson and principal, Eric Lloyd the Ohio River Valley are of particular in­ Wright Architects, and Neil Levine, ar­ terest. May 1, 1989 is the final date for The following letter to the Newsletter chitectural historian and professor and receipt of proposals, including a 400-word is an indication of our successful com­ chairman, Department of Fine Arts, abstract of the paper, a tentative title, and munication with members: Harvard University. Mr. Levine is cur­ a 40-word author vita. Oct. 1, 1989 is the Dear Ms. Thompson: rently writing a book about Wright. final date for receipt of the final paper. Symposium attendees will have the op­ For further information: The Society For In April 1986, the Society of portunity to tour Frank Lloyd Wright-de­ American City And Regional Planning Architectural Historians Newsletter listed signed residences in the Ann Arbor area. History, 3655 Darbyshire Drive, Hilliard, an item under "Call For Papers" request­ The Symposium is sponsored and un­ Ohio 43026-2534, (614) 876-2170. ing proposals from architectural histori­ derwritten by a grant from Domino's ans who wished to participate in the up­ Pizza Inc., and co-hosted by the National FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS coming symposium, "Who was the archi­ Center for the Study of Frank Lloyd tect of the Taft Museum?" Based on the Wright at Domino's Farms and the Winterthur Museum and Gardens in­ response from this listing we invited University of Michigan.