This November, I had the chance to attend the Southeast Museum Conference annual meeting. The meeting was held in Williamsburg, Virginia at the Williamsburg Lodge. The meeting lasted three days and over 500 museum professionals attended. Throughout the course of the conference I attended seven sessions covering: collections and digital questions, design ideas every museum […]
The Center for Historic Preservation at The University of Mary Washington seeks nominations for its 2013 Historic Preservation Book Prize. Established by the Center in 1988, the Historic Preservation Book Prize is awarded annually by a jury of preservation professionals to the book deemed to have made the most significant contribution to the field of […]
The 2012 Historic Preservation Book Prize, sponsored by the University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation, has been awarded to Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity by Jeffrey M. Chusid. W.W. Norton & Company published Saving Wright in 2011.Saving Wright is a comprehensive and compelling case study […]
Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas John H. Stubbs and Emily G. Makas Wiley Publishers Buildings, Landscapes, & Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation Daniel Bluestone W.W. Norton Celebrating Egg Harbor 1861-2011 (two volumes) Egg Harbor Historical Society Egg Harbor Historical Society Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community Douglas A. Boyd University of […]
The Center for Historic Preservation at The University of Mary Washington seeks nominations for its 2012 Historic Preservation Book Prize. Established by the Center in 1988, the Historic Preservation Book Prize is awarded annually by a jury of preservation professionals to the book deemed to have made the most significant contribution to the field of […]