ON February 18th, 2012, the historic preservation department hosted its first Mini-Symposium on Historic Virginia Kitchens. The official title, ‘Research perspectives on Historic Virginia Kitchens: Architecture, Slavery & Interpretation” became a platform through which preservation faculty, students, alumni and research enthusiasts could share with each other and the general public their expertise regarding historic kitchens.The […]
From November 5th-November 12th, Christopher Betts, a renowned architectural conservationist from the United Kingdom visited Fredericksburg, Virginia to meet with UMW Historic Preservation students and faculty and discuss his work. Chris has over 25 years of specialist expertise as an architectural conservationist and is acting partner of Purcell Miller Tritton, an architectural practice that manages […]
This past October the Center for Historic Preservation assisted in sending four historic preservation students, in addition to UMW professor Dr. Andrea Livi Smith to Buffalo, New York for the annual National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference. The students (Senior Cameron Henry, Juniors Susanna Parmelee and Sarah Sanders, and Sophomore Danielle Payne) and Dr. Smith […]
On Wednesday, October 5th, 2011, the Center for Historic Preservation, in cooperation with the Department of Women and Gender Studies, co-sponsored a lecture featuring Dr. Heather Huyck, a public historian with more than 30 years of experience in the field. Dr. Huyck’s 5:00pm lecture in Combs Hall was titled, “Hard Hats & High Heels: Women […]
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