Creating and Preserving the American Home
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:00-8:45 am, Ochre Court, Salve Regina University, Newport, R.I.
Welcome
8:45-9:00, Ochre Court State Dining Room
Dr. Dean E. de la Motte, Vice President for Academic Affairs
Salve Regina University, Newport, R.I.
Session I: Keynote Address
9:00-9:45 am, Ochre Court State Dining Room
Session II: Creating the Iconic House
10:00-12:00, Ochre Court State Dining Room
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Pride and Prejudice of Place: Two New London County Villas
Mary Beth Baker, Executive Director, Stonington Historical Society
Leslie Evans, Curator, Avery-Copp House and Archives
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The Artist's House as Type: Crow House, Home and Studio of Henry Varnum Poor
Caroline M. Hannah, Ph.D. candidate, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture
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East Meets West in the South: Sweet Briar House as Aesthetic Retreat
H. Christian Carr, Assistant Professor of Arts Management and Museum Director, Sweet Briar College
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A Tribute to a Mythic Past: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe's Newport Home, Vinland
Margaret R. Laster, PhD Candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Lunch
12:00-1:00, Ochre Court Terrace
Session III: Imaging and Imagining the Home
1:00-3:00 pm, Ochre Court State Dining Room
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Envisioning "Home Sweet Home:” Currier and Ives' Views of Rural American Homes
Lisa Dorrill, Adjunct Professor in Art and Art History, Dickinson College
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Cultivating Good Taste at the Movies: Movie Palaces and the Decoration of the American Home
Jason Tippeconnic Fox, PhD Candidate, The University of Virginia
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Queen of the Castle: Women and the Iconization of the American Home, c. 1920
Laura L. Thornton, Director of Education, The Trust for Architectural Easements
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'As the Home is, So is the Nation:' Domestic Science, Women, and Modern America at the Turn of the Century
Elisa Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rhode Island College
Tour 1: Creating and Preserving the Colonial Home
3:00-5:00 pm, Bus will depart from Ochre Court
Conference participants will explore the history, creation and preservation of Newport’s oldest extant house, the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard house, as well as recent archaeological investigations that have helped reshape the building’s interpretation.
This tour is included within the registration fee.
Gallery Opening
5:30-7:30 pm, Wetmore Gallery, Salve Regina University
Carousing at Surinam, Languishing at Home:
The Material World of Newport’s Eighteenth-Century Merchants
Introduction by James C. Garman, Associate Professor, Salve Regina University
During the Golden Age, Newport’s mercantile elites used material possessions from abroad for conspicuous display at home. Excavations from several sites in Newport, including the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House and the Thomas Richardson House, are shedding new light on the lives of these merchants and their material personalities. This exhibition uses artifacts, documents, and images from Salve Regina University’s archaeological field school to begin telling the story of Newport’s “grandees.”
Friday, October 24, 2008
Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:00-8:30 am, Ochre Court, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
Session IV: The American Writer at Home
8:30-10:15 am, Ochre Court State Dining Room
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Frocks and Aprons or Geographies: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Reconception of Domesticity
Caroline Hellman, Assistant Professor, City Tech, City University of New York
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Liberty Hyde Bailey: Advocate of the Rural Home
Daniel Krall, Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Cornell University
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Making a “Little House:” Laura Ingalls Wilder's Rocky Ridge Farm
Michelle McClellan, Lecturer, Department of History, University of Michigan
Session V: The Home and its Neighborhood
10:30 am-12:30 pm, Ochre Court State Dining Room
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In Search of the Simple Life: Bungalows and the American Rustic Movement
Robert Reynolds, Freyberger Professor of Pennsylvania German Studies and Executive Director of the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center
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“Charming Clear-View:” A Working Class Suburb in Progressive Era Philadelphia
Anne Krulikowski, Adjunct Professor, History/American Studies, West Chester University
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Reconcilable Differences: Tension, Relief and the Mullanphy Immigrant House
Cole Woodcox, Professor of English, Truman State University
Lunch
12:15-1:00 pm, Ochre Court Terrace
Session VI: The American Farm and the American Frontier
1:00pm -3:00 pm, Ochre Court State Dining Room
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Apple Orchards and All: Reinterpreting Blowing Rock North Carolina's Flat Top Estate
Neva Specht, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, Department of History, Appalachian State University
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“Real Pretty (Tho' Not Expensive):” The Changing Perception of House and Home in Central Georgia, 1880-1910
John Metz, Director of Collections Management, The Library of Virginia
Lou Ferleger, Professor of History, Boston University
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Expanding the Boundaries of Home: Environmental Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Vermont
Jill Mudgett, Independent Scholar
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Defending the Frontier Home in the Victorian World
Evelyn Montgomery, Curator of Exhibits and Collections, Dallas Heritage Village
Tour 2: Creating and Preserving the Colonial Farm
3:00-5:00 pm, Bus will depart from Ochre Court
Conference participants will visit the Paradise Farm complex in Middletown, RI, to better understand the thematic issues surrounding the creation of the American farm and the preservation challenges faced by today’s historic farm properties.
This tour is included within the registration fee.
Gallery Opening
3:00-5:00 pm, The Studio, Norman Bird Sanctuary, Middletown, RI
At Home in Paradise (Rhode Island):
Archaeology, Material Culture and the Preservation of the Rural Farm
Introduction by Michelle G. Styger and Colleen P. McCarthy, MA Candidates, The University of Massachusetts, Boston
First occupied in the 1770s, the Paradise Farm house has undergone many transitions from its original 10-room Colonial-era form to a tenant farming site to a Colonial Revival home. Recent archaeological research has explored how these changes have occurred, illuminating the preservation of traditional ideals as well as the introduction and overlay of newer values. This exhibition presents these exciting ideas through artifacts, documents, and images from Salve Regina University’s archaeological field school and from local archives.
Dinner on your own
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:30 am, Young Building
Session VII: Parsing the American Home
8:30-10:30 am, Young Building
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The American Front Porch: A Barometer of Anonymous America
Dace Koenigsknecht, Data Integration Analyst
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Back to Nature: Furnishing Transitional Spaces within the Home
Rebecca Bertrand, Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
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Bringing Nature Indoors: The Evolution of the American Sunroom, 1900-30
Monica Obniski, Research Assistant in American Decorative Arts, Art Institute of Chicago and Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
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The Architect as Master Builder: Pattern Books, Pre-cut Homes, and the American Dream
Eric N. Kuchar, Project Architect, Connor Homes
Session VIII: Preserving the American Home
10:45 am-12:45 pm, Young Building
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Re-imagining America's Most Famous Home: Replicas of Mount Vernon and the Historic Preservation Movement, 1893-1934
Lydia Mattice Brandt, PhD Candidate, The University of Virginia
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Heaven and Hell on Earth: Image, Reality and the Preservation of Family Identity
Nan Wolverton, Independent Scholar
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Susan Higginson Nash, Colonial Williamsburg and their Influence on American Taste
Pauline C. Metcalf, Interiors Historian
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Conservation Strategies to Protect Historic St. Augustine, Florida Neighborhood
Jocelyn Widmer, PhD Candidate, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida
Optional Tour 1: Aquidneck Island’s Rural Retreats
1:00-5:00 pm, Bus will depart from the Young Building
Additional Cost: $50.00
The tour is limited to 20.
This optional tour will use country estates and suburban houses in Middletown and Portsmouth as springboards for discussing alternatives to summer life on Bellevue Avenue. The sites will include Whitehall, several original houses on Indian Avenue in Middletown and this avenue's special chapel called The Berkeley Memorial--St. Columba's, and Greenvale, a gentleman's farm that today operates Greenvale Vineyards. James L. Yarnall, Associate Professor at Salve Regina University and author of Newport Through its Architecture: A History of Styles from Postmedieval to Postmodern, will lead this exciting on-site experience. Participants will receive lunch as part of the tour and transportation to and from the sites. A wine-tasting at Greenvale will conclude the tour.
Optional Tour 2: Newport’s Urban Treasures
1:00-4:00 pm, Bus will depart from the Young Building
Additional Cost: $25.00
The tour is limited to 20
This optional tour will explore Newport’s eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century merchant homes with an eye toward understanding their history and preservation in today’s commercial climate. Participants will tour the Whitehorne House, private houses owned by the Newport Restoration Foundation (NRF), and the historic Lower Thames St. neighborhood in which they sit. Recent archaeological efforts co-sponsored by NRF and Salve Regina University will also be featured. Lisa Dady, NRF’s Director of Education and Public Programs, Martha Ginty, NRF Interpretive Staff and SRU Historic Preservation student, and Maria Pease, SRU archeology student, will lead this fascinating urban history tour. Participants will receive lunch and transportation to and from the sites as part of the tour.
Salve Regina University would like to thank: Ruth Taylor and The Newport Historical Society, Rob Cardeiro and The Norman Bird Sanctuary, Lisa Dady and The Newport Restoration Foundation, Karen Oakley and Viking Tours, Martha Ginty, Maria Pease, Michelle G. Styger, Colleen P. McCarthy, James Yarnall, Craig Coonrod, Jay Lacouture, Melissa Davis, Dean de la Motte
