"The Classical Language and Literature of Architecture"

The Vermont Division for Historic Preservation is a co-sponsor of a
University of Vermont Graduate Program in Historic Preservation
summer institute course, "The Classical Language and Literature of
Architecture," to be held June 23 to 27, 1997, at the Calvin Coolidge
State Historic Site in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. This three credit
graduate level course will be taught by William G. Foulks, who taught
for many years in the Columbia University HP program and is the
director of building conservation for John G. Waite Associates,
Architects, in Albany, NY.

Morning lectures will be held in the c.1890 one room schoolhouse at
the Coolidge Historic Site, a rural village that looks much as it did
when Coolidge became president in 1923.

The forms of the orders of architecture
and the architectural books that propagated them will be studied in
buildings of the 16th through the 19th centuries. After introducing
the orders and their use in Italy, France, and England, the course
will concentrate on the orders in the architecture of the United
States from the Colonial period to the mid-19th century as a basis
for restoring buildings based on them. The lectures will be
supplemented by afternoon field trips led by VT sites staff and
other area experts to historic buildings in the
Connecticut River Valley. The buildings will include those designed
by or based on designs by Asher Benjamin and other Vermont
state-owned historic sites.

Those interested must obtain supplemental course information from the
UVM Department of History (802-656-3180). The information includes
advance readings and a list of area lodgings (from state park
campgrounds to B&Bs, country inns, and hotels). For information
about tuition fees and how to register, contact the UVM Division of
Continuing Education, 322 South Prospect St., Burlington, VT
05401-3505 (1-800-639-3210).

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Elsa Gilbertson
National Register Specialist
Vermont Division for Historic Preservation
135 State Street, Drawer 33
Montpelier, VT 05633-1201
(802) 828-3046