In looking at the landscape of the wharf in Midcoast Maine in the 20th century, William Keller is reviewing photographs in order to retrieve the spatial relationships between buildings no longer extant. Here, in a public domain image, the White House photographer Cecil Stoughton has captured a segment of wharf environment in addition to President Kennedy’s arrival sequence in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, in August, 1962.

Harley Cowan, Access Awardee 2018, had his first solo exhibit of photography March 5-29 in his hometown of Richland, Washington (right next to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation) for the 75th anniversary of the Manhattan Project. To read more, see the article on the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation’s website.  

This will be followed up by a new exhibit of photography at the visitor center for the Manhattan Project National Historical Park at Hanford which will include some new photography specifically for the exhibit to show some of the various stories about life for workers in the area at the time. The exhibit will run from April through October.

The North Carolina SHPO office is pleased to announce the publication in January of architectural historian Laura AW Phillip's Grand Illusions:  Historic Decorative Interior Painting in North Carolina. 

"With Grand Illusions, Laura Phillips brings to readers her findings after decades of study of decorative interior painting. The chief focus is on the walls of North Carolina residences in the nineteenth century with nods to examples in nonresidential and out-of-state structures. Types studied include wood-grained painting; marbled, stone-blocked, and smoked painting; stenciled painting; and trompe-l’oeil and scenic paintings. The volume includes an extended essay on the topic accompanied by a photographic catalog of the properties and examples."--UNC Press website

Carla Yanni, Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, is pleased to announce the publication of Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). 

"This richly illustrated book examines the architecture of dormitories in the United States from the eighteenth century to 1968, highlighting the opinions of architects, professors, deans, and students. Carla Yanni focuses on the dormitory as a place of exclusion as much as a site of fellowship, and considers the uncertain future of residence halls in the age of distance learning."--University of Minnesota Press website

Compiled by Travis Olson

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Weathersby, Claude, and Yolanda Weathersby. “Branch School Buildings in the St. Louis Public Schools District: Tools to Support the Segregative Neighborhood School Policy of the St. Louis Board of Education.” Journal of Urban History 45, no. 3 (May 2019): 483–99. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144217712929.

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