The Colonial Revival Revisited
Saturday, October 12, 2019
9:00AM to 4:30 PM
Join Wilton House Museum on Saturday, October 12, 2019 for a day long symposium. Scholars from across the country will gather to explore expressions of the Colonial Revival in the early twentieth-century South, in city planning, architecture, interiors, and furniture.
Featuring keynote speaker Tom Savage , Director of External Affairs, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
Check-in begins at 9 am.
Early bird tickets ($60) on sale from July 1 – July 31.
Full price tickets ($85) on sale from August 1 – October 5th.
Tickets are available through Eventbrite.
Program
9:00 Registration & Coffee
Welcome & Morning Moderator
Nancy Holcomb, Chair, Wilton House Museum Board
9:30 Wilton: 1894, 1934 & 2034
Keith D MacKay, Executive Director
10:30 Maintaining A Proud Heritage: Richmond’s Colonial Revival Architecture
Calder Loth, Architectural Historian
11:30 Historical Identity Issues: George Bigelow Rogers and The Colonial Revival in Mobile
Cartledge W. Blackwell, III Curator, Mobile Carnival Museum
12:30 Lunch
Welcome & Afternoon Moderator
Katie Watkins, Director of Education
2:00 Reproductions and the Southern Colonial Revival
Erica Lome PhD Candidate, University of Delaware
3:00 From Williamsburg to Winterthur: Thomas Waterman and the Colonial Revival
Tom Savage Director of External Affairs, Winterthur Museum
4:30 Optional Museum Tours
