[MassHistPres] Annual Meeting - Vernacular Architecture Forum - New England Chapter Saturday November 7, 2020

[Steinitz, Michael (SEC)]

The Annual Meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum – New England Chapter, rescheduled from April, will now be held virtually as a Zoom meeting on Saturday, 7 November 2020, from 9:20 am to about 1:50 pm EST.

The originally planned program of presentations remains the same, but the length of the day is shorter as there will be no extended lunch break, and just one short break mid-day.  Presentations will be pre-recorded, but each speaker will be introduced live before each presentation, and a live question-and-answer session will follow each presentation.

The list of presentations below can also be found at www.vafweb.org/VAF-NE_2020ConferenceSchedule<http://www.vafweb.org/VAF-NE_2020ConferenceSchedule>

To sign up for the program, please go to the VAF website at: http://www.vafweb.org/event-3999320 .

Registration fee is $10.00.  Registration is open to all, but non-VAF members will need to make a free account here first: http://vafweb.org/2020guest .

REGISTRATION CLOSES NOVEMBER 6

VAF-NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING
Current Research by Members of VAF-New England Chapter- Saturday, 7 November 2020

 9:20-9:30  Welcoming Remarks - Laura B. Driemeyer, President, VAF-NE Chapter

9:30-10:40
“Framing the Old Colony: Early Plymouth Architecture in Context”
James Kelleher, Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in American Material Culture

“The New England Squash Barn”
 Sally McMurry, Penn State University

10:40-11:50
“Marblehead Land Company, A Well-Documented Residential Subdivision of the 1880s”
John D Clemson, Independent Scholar

“A Look Back at a WWI Housing Effort”
Lorna Condon, Historic New England

“Introducing the Royal Barry Wills Associates Archives”
Lorna Condon, Historic New England

11:50-12:10  Break

12:10-12:45
“Destination ‘Magic Town’: Capitalism, Corporate Branding, and the Trackside Architecture of the Portland & Rumford Falls Railway, 1890-1895”
C. Ian Stevenson, Independent Scholar

12:45-1:45 FORUM: Recovering Urban Vernacular Spaces in Boston and New York City

 “They Persisted: Women Confront the Corporate Improvement of Boston’s Waterfront, 1790-1820”
Kathryn Lasdow, Suffolk University

 “Real Estate and Reimagining African American Free Space in New York City”
Alexander Manevitz, New York Historical Society

What spaces do we honor and whose stories do we tell?  How can the physical destruction of our urban vernacular landscapes teach us about our historical and present-day values?  Join Kathryn Lasdow and Alexander Manevitz as they discuss vernacular destruction and dispossession for women and African American communities in nineteenth-century Boston and New York City. Using a combination of vernacular architecture, historical geography, archaeology, and social history, they’ll share what they’ve uncovered about the female property-owners and renters who resisted the rise of corporate development on the Boston waterfront, including the Charles Bulfinch-designed India Wharf complex.  They will examine Seneca Village, a free black experimental political community in upper Manhattan, ultimately displaced by Central Park. Then they will open the floor for a discussion on research methods, findings, and contemporary ramifications.

We look forward to an exciting day and hope that you can join us.

Best,

VAF-NE Chapter Annual Meeting Committee

Michael Steinitz on behalf of VAF-NE Chapter

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