Itinerary for Program in New England Studies
Monday, June 18: Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay
Tuesday, June 19: Eighteenth-Century Piscataqua
Wednesday, June 20: Eighteenth Century
Thursday, June 21: Nineteenth Century
Friday, June 22: Victorian Era
Saturday, June 23: Colonial Revival
Monday, June 18: Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay
9:00 a.m.
Breakfast/registration at Otis House (1796)
10:00 a.m.
Welcome and orientation
10:15 a.m.
How Colonial New England Became Britain’s Pottery Barn
Cary Carson, vice president, research division (retired), Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
11:30 a.m.
House Plans and Frames in Early New England
Robert Blair St. George, associate professor of history, University of Pennsylvania
1:30 p.m.
Lunch at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm
2:30 p.m.
Tour of Swett-Ilsley House (c. 1670) and Coffin House (1678)
Abbott Lowell Cummings, former director, Historic New England, and Cary Carson
5:30 p.m.
Return to Boston
6:30 p.m.
Alumni lecture/reception: Revitalizing Historic House Museums
Ken Turino, manager of community engagement and exhibitions, Historic New England
Tuesday, June 19: Eighteenth-Century Piscataqua
7:45 a.m.
Depart Otis House for Portsmouth, New Hampshire
9:00 a.m.
Eighteenth-Century Architecture
James L. Garvin, state architectural historian, New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources
10:30 a.m.
New England House and Home
Jane C. Nylander, president emerita, Historic New England
12:00 p.m.
Lunch at Governor John Langdon House (1784)
1:00 p.m.
Tour of Governor John Langdon House
Craig Tuminaro, regional site manager, Historic New England
2:00 p.m.
Tour of Warner House (c. 1716)
Richard Candee, professor emeritus, Boston University
3:00 p.m.
Depart for Kittery Point, Maine
3:30 p.m.
Tour of Lady Pepperrell House (1760)
Joseph Cornish, senior stewardship manager, Historic New England
4:30 p.m.
Depart for Portsmouth
5:00 p.m.
Reception at the home of Jane C. Nylander and Richard C. Nylander
6:30 p.m.
Return to Boston
Wednesday, June 20: Eighteenth Century
9:15 a.m.
Eighteenth-Century American Furniture
Brock Jobe, professor of decorative arts, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture
10:30 a.m.
Tour of Otis House (1796)
Richard Nylander, curator emeritus, Historic New England
12:30 p.m.
Box lunch
1:00 p.m.
Depart for Collections and Conservation Center in Haverhill, Massachusetts
2:00 p.m.
Workshops (furniture, ceramics, and textiles) at Collections and Conservation Center
Brock Jobe; Nancy Carlisle, senior curator, and Laura Johnson, associate curator, Historic New England
5:00 p.m.
Depart for Boston
6:00 p.m.
Tour of Historic New England Library and Archives
Lorna Condon, senior curator of library and archives, Historic New England
Thursday, June 21: Nineteenth Century
9:00 a.m.
The Architecture and Landscape of Federal New England
J. Ritchie Garrison, director, Winterthur Program in Early American Material Culture, University of Delaware
10:15 a.m.
Federal Furniture in New England
Robert Mussey, independent conservator
11:30 a.m.
Depart for Salem, Massachusetts
12:15 pm
Shop or free time at Peabody Essex Museum
1:00 p.m.
Lunch at Peabody Essex Museum
2:30 p.m.
Tour of Gardner-Pingree House (1804)
Dean Lahikainen, Carolyn and Peter Lynch curator of American decorative art, Peabody Essex Museum
4:00 p.m.
Depart for Boston
5:30 p.m.
Curator's Tour of the Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gerry W. R. Ward, senior consulting curator and Katharine Lane Weems senior curator emeritus, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Friday, June 22: Victorian Era
8:00 a.m.
Depart Otis House for Lincoln, Massachusetts
8:45 a.m.
Tour of Codman Estate (c. 1740)
Richard C. Nylander
10:15 a.m.
Depart for Woodstock, Connecticut
12:00 p.m.
Box lunch
1:00 p.m.
Wild and Colorful: American Victorian Architecture, 1840-1890
Richard Guy Wilson, chair, Department of Architectural History, University of Virginia
2:00 p.m.
Victorian Furniture: Design Run Amok or Inspired Creativity?
Nancy Carlisle
3:00 p.m.
Tour of Roseland Cottage (1846)
4:30 p.m.
Depart for Boston
6:30 p.m.
Reception and tour at the Ayer Mansion (1902)
Saturday, June 23: Colonial Revival
7:45 a.m.
Depart Otis House for South Berwick, Maine
9:00 a.m.
Colonial Redux: The Revival of American Architecture and Art
Gerald W.R. Ward
10:15 a.m.
Creating a History for New England's Architecture: The Colonial Revival from the Civil War to the First World War
Kevin D. Murphy, professor and executive officer, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
11:30 a.m.
Tour of Hamilton House (c. 1785)
Richard C. Nylander
Box lunch
2:00 p.m.
Depart for Gloucester, Mass.
3:30 p.m.
Tour Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (1907)
Richard C. Nylander and Nancy Carlisle
4:30 p.m.
Reception on Beauport Terrace
5:30 p.m.
Depart for Boston; end of program
