2025 Programs

Daniel Heister House, Built in Montgomery County, PA in 1757.
Adventures in Restoration: Journey from 18th Century Relic to 21st Century HomeLisa Minardi, Executive Director, Historic Trappe
The drawing room at Melrose, reflecting the height of interior design in the mid-19th century.
Being English All Over: Natchez and the Rise of the Suburban EstateJefferson Mansell, Lead Historian, Natchez National Park, National Park Service
Beauport (1908-1934) in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Courtesy Historic New England; photograph by David Bohl.
Love and Magic on Eastern PointTripp Evans, Professor of the History of Art, Wheaton College
David Slivka, Relief Sculpture at the Berkeley Main Post Office
Saving a Generation: New Deal Art ProjectsAnn Prentice Wagner, Principle, APW Art Curating and Director, Bradbury Art Museum
Finn Juhl, Baker Furniture
Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890 – 1980Bobbye Tigerman, Curator, Decorative Arts and Design, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Armchair, possibly United States, ca. 1790-1810. Ash; paint, gold leaf, silk.
A Little French Ease Would be an Improvement: Lessons in Sociability in 1780s ParisAmy Hudson Henderson, Independent historian, Washington DC
Bedstead, Philadelphia, 1791-1797
Collaborative Consumption: Men, Women and Home Decorating in Federal AmericaAmy Hudson Henderson, Independent historian, Washington DC
Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
American Versailles: Philadelphia's Lynnwood HallCurt DiCamillo, American Ancestors
Chocolate set and cup, 1915, made by Gorham Manufacturing Company
Poppy Patents, Silver Prizes and an Heiress: Gorham’s California Chocolate SetAnn Wagner, Winterthur Museum