Lectures
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The Alcott Study interior was the subject of a restoration well-documented by Mr.Alcotts extensive Journals. Several lectures by the author were prepared presenting and interpreting the history and evolution of the property, Orchard House and the School of Philosophy. �A. Bronson Alcott, Transcendental Architect� chronicled the philosophers extensive interest in building his own dream house as well as projects with his friends Emerson and Thoreau. (Photo montage by F.C. Detwiller) |
- �Historic Preservation: Facts and Fallacies� of Preservation and Adaptive Use, for Columbia University School of Architecture program in Salem, MA 1974.
- �What�s Happening in New England� for the New Jersey League of Historical Societies, Scotch Plains, NJ, 1975.
- �The Battle of Short Hills� Union County Technical Institute, Scotch Plains, NJ, 1977.
- �Vestiges of Boston�s Church in Brattle Square� for the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Dublin, NH, 1979.
- �Faneuil Hall� for the Boston Heritage Series of the Boston Public Library and National Historic Park, 1980.
- �Boston's Georgian Legacy: A Reappraisal� at Eliot House, Harvard University, for the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1980.
- �A New Perspective on Charles Bulfinch� for the Doric Dames, State House, Boson, MA1981.
- �Orchard House�; �A. Bronson Alcott, Transcendental Architect� for the Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association, Concord, MA, 1981, 1996.
- �Architectural Evolution in Some Wellesley Houses� for the Wellesley Historical Society, Wellesley, MA 1981.
- �The Way They Were�, Boston Town & Country in the 18th century, for the Old South Meetinghouse Association, Boston, MA, 1984.
- �If Walls Could Speak�, Researching Historic Properties, for Weston Historical Society, Weston, MA 1988.
- �Off the Walls� for the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, Boston, MA 1988.
- � Bulfinch�s Europe�, for the Society of Architectural Historian, �The Shirley-Eustis House � Home of Two Massachusetts Governors�, 1991, for the Fox Hill Village Resident Services, Westwood, MA.
- �History of the North End Cityscape, 1635-1950� with David Hart of McGinley Hart & Associates, to the North End Historical Society, Boston, MA, 1993.
- �Town and Country in the Revolution�; �Evolution of The Loring-Greenough House� for the Tuesday Club of Jamaica Plain, MA, 1982, 1998.
- �18th and 19th Century Carriage Houses and Barns�; �Meetinghouses of Oldtown�, for the Natick Historical Society, Natick, MA, , 1998, 2001.
- �Coach Houses in Federal New England�; �Edward Devotion House, Widow Harris House, and Putterham School�, for the Brookline Historical Society, 1998, 2001.
- �Everyman�s Petit Trianon � Boston�s Great Estates of the Revolutions� for the Devens Lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2000.