Reminiscences of a Preservationist: What was Happening in the Early Days September 14, 2016, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
RSVP by Friday, September 9
$25 for members, $30 for nonmembers
On Wed. Sept. 14, 2016, 11 a.m. at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, the 2010 winner of the prestigious Vincent Scully Prize, Adele Chatfield-Taylor, will give a talk titled, Reminiscences of a Preservationist: What was Happening in the Early Days. The talk will be held at 295 West Ave, Norwalk, CT.
The twentieth century was a period when there was more destruction of property and more new building than through all of previous history combined. The sudden transformation of the landscape in both respects gave rise to the historic preservation movement in the U. S. and many of us got involved. This talk is on various preservation developments and cases over the last 50 years.
Adele Chatfield-Taylor accepted the award at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. for her work in historic preservation and urban planning. At the time, she was the president and CEO of the American Academy in Rome, a position she held from 1988 to 2013. She accepted the Scully Prize with a revelatory speech summarizing the Historic Preservation Movement over the past 50 years.
Her resume speaks of her innumerable accomplishments including working for the Historic Architectural Buildings Survey under the prominent preservationist Charles E. Peterson. He introduced her to the new historic preservation graduate program starting at Columbia University, where she studied under James Marston Fitch and where she later became an adjunct assistant professor. She worked for the NY City Landmark Preservation Commission and in 1980, she established the New York Landmark Preservation Foundation, becoming its first Executive Director. She was appointed the Director of the Design Program for the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington D.C. from 1984 until 1988, during which time she established the Mayors Institutes for City Design.
The Museum’s 2016 cultural and educational programs are made possible in part by generous funding from LMMM’s Founding Patrons: The Estate of Mrs. Cynthia Clark Brown, the Museum’s Distinguished Benefactors: Klaff’s, The Xerox Foundation, and The Maurice Goodman Foundation.
