The American Country Place Era LECTURE

Following the end of the Gilded Age, circa 1900, the built environment of America’s wealthy took a turn into a new age of architecture. The American Country Place Era was a subtle yet definable shift as wealth expanded across the nation, cities grew, and industry boomed, resulting in major home building projects distinguished by a proclivity for historical revival styles in structural architecture and complimentary landscape architecture designs. Leslie B. Jones - the Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator for the Preservation Society since April 2019 - will discuss various examples of this Gilded Age bookend, illustrating edifices from Massachusetts to Tennessee. This Zoom webinar begins at 5:30 p.m.