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Columbus Day All Programs are free for students with ID. City Abandoned Gallery Talk and Book Signing Society Hill-Hot and Healthy! Genealogy Workshop Lecture: Nancy G. Heller, John Singer Sargent and Flamenco: Reconsidering El Jaleo. Wednesday, October 21, 5:30PM. Free for Athenaeum Members, RSVP to events@philaathenaeum.org or 215-925-2688. All others $10. Additional Information. Lecture: Steven B. Erisoty, “Preserving Philadelphia’s Artistic
Heritage” Lecture: Stephen Hague, The Gentleman’s House in
the British Atlantic World. Lecture: Raghu Karnad, Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the
Second World War. Bibles and Prayer Books of the Athenaeum
Exhibition Dates: Through October 17th Industrial Philadelphia Art Competition Registration
Registration Opens: September 1, 2015, 12:00AM Exhibition Dates: December 6, 2015-January 2, 2016 Please read the prospectus for more information on the competition. Philadelphia: The Seat of Arts & Activism
"Every year we struggle to share with our audiences the vibrant diversity of social and cultural organizations active in Philadelphia. We’ve asked 75 of these organizations to lend us a chair. Their continuous presence and accompanying mission statements will literally support us throughout Temple Contemporary's fall season." One of the Athenaeum's folding
chairs is in this exhibition. Dates: September 2, 2015-January 31, 2016 Above: Athenaeum folding chair in Temple Contemporary's exhibition.Member News The Robert J. and Thelma E. Gill Book Fund has been established by Dr.
Robert J. Gill, former Athenaeum Board member, to purchase books of
history and biography.
Thank you, Dr. Gill for this important book fund.
Both the Warren House (1850) in Newburgh and Chichester’s Inn
(1680-1710) in Huntington tell defining stories about the New York towns
that house them. As the recipient of The SAH/Charles E. Peterson Fellowship
this summer, I was given the opportunity to research these two pre-1860s
buildings, and compose their histories as they have been interpreted and
transmitted by those who constructed, inhabited, recorded, and preserved
them. While one (Chichester’s Inn) took me back to the early settlement
period through the narrative of a family who built the seventeenth century
inn on a historic stagecoach route, the other (Warren House) summoned an
often overlooked architect, Calvert Vaux, who left a profound imprint on
nineteenth-century American taste and design. These buildings will become
part of the 100 Classic Buildings series of the New York State
contributions to SAH Archipedia and writing their entries has enriched my
understanding of the multicultural climate of New York State that so
impacted the distinctive architecture of early America.
Above: Warren House.Left:
Chichester's Inn.
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The
exhibition cases in the Reading Room are currently displaying some of our
older Bibles and Catholic prayer-books.
Industrial
Philadelphia: Past & Present is a celebration of the significant role the Philadelphia region has played, and continues to play, in our country’s industrial life.
From
Temple Contemporary:
by
Tonia Sing Chi Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation Columbia University
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