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Join us at The Elms as we welcome special guest speaker, Architectural Historian and Author, Catherine Zipf, PhD for her presentation on Architectural Preservation.
Catherine W. Zipf, PhD, is an award winning architectural historian and author with expertise in historic preservation. Her research examines women’s participation in American architectural and decorative arts history during the 19th and 20th centuries. She earned an AB from Harvard University and a MaH and PhD from the University of Virginia. Zipf writes frequently for a wide range of publications, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Leadership Forum Blog, and has written scholarly articles for Buildings and Landscapes, Radical Teacher, and The Journal of City, Culture and Architecture. She also writes a monthly column on architecture for The Providence Journal. Her forthcoming articles include a study of Lucy Van Pelt’s psychiatric booth as a gendered space within the Peanuts landscape and the political controversy surrounding Maya Lin’s redesign of Queen Anne Square, in Newport, RI. She is currently writing her second book, Making a Home of Her Own: Newport’s Architectural Patronesses, 1850-1940, while serving as the Executive Director of the Bristol Historical and Preservation Society.Date and Time
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM EDTContact Information
401-847-1608
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