[MassHistPres] June 20 Symposium and June 20 to December 15 Exhibit on the New England Custom Houses of Robert Mills, America's First Architect

[WILLAM HARRIS]

The Custom House Maritime Museum, 25 Water St., Newburyport, MA 01950 on Saturday June 20 hosts a one-day Symposium on the New England Custom Houses of Robert Mills.  $40, including light breakfast, kunch, and wine & cheese reception.  Registration 8:30 am to 9 am.  Tickets sold at the museum entry.  For Museum Members and members, Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America, price is $25, including breakfast, lunch and wine & cheese reception from 4:30 to 5:30 pm.  For further info Call 978-462-8681 or visit us on the web at www.customhousemaritimemuseum.org.

Topics covered include:  comparative architecture of the Mills' designed custom houses in Newburyport, MA, New Bedford, MA, New London, CT, and Midddletown, CT; custom house life in the 19th century; fireproof technology for masonry buildings; the life of Robert Mills, patriot, architect, engineer, and designer of public buildings; historic preservation challenges for masonry buildings designed by Robert Mills; specific issues in New Bedford, New London, and Newburyport; issues arising in design of building annexes (Newburyport, New Bedford) connecting to architecturally significant buildings. 

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An Exhibit, The New England Custom Houses of Robert Mills, America's First Architect, will be showing at the Custom House Maritime Museum, 25 Water Street, Newburyport, MA 01950, June 20 through December 15, 2009.  Admission $7.00, including entire museum.  Learn why the administration of President Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) build out a system of regional Custom Houses, including sub-stations along the Atlantic coast; how this infrastructure program actually paid off the entire national debt, together with sale of western lands; why cartoonists skewered the President and politicians about the banking system; why the basements were both fireproof and designed as bank vaults; the Greek Revival symbolism of these federal buildings; the actual contracts, specifications and Robert Mills drawings of 1833-34 for the New England Custom Houses; plans for the buildings, in common scale; why some Custom Houses were not completed as designed; the Robert Mills
 Portfolio for the Custom House in New London, Connecticut; and portraits of key persona.   For further information, call 978-462-8681, or visit the web at www.customhousemaritimemuseum.org.
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