CALENDAR 2024-2025
Monday, January 20, 2025
Shawn Eyer
“Lee Fendall House Structural Survey: A Lesson in Historic Preservation”
The Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street, 7 P.M. light refreshments, 7:30 lecture
Shawn Eyer, Director of the Lee-Fendall House Museum and Garden
The Lee-Fendall House enters its fiftieth year of service as a museum in 2024. The key local historic resource, built in 1785, has a complex architectural history. Thanks to a grant from the Alexandria Association, a comprehensive Historic Structure Review of Lee-Fendall has been completed. The new Executive Director of the house will share with us a summary of the key findings of the HSR, and the emerging priorities for restoration and improvement of the property. He will also relate some of the museum’s exciting plans for its fiftieth anniversary.
Shawn Eyer became Executive Director of the Lee-Fendall House Museum and Garden in 2023 with extensive professional history in non-profits, museums, and education. Mr. Eyer is an active educator in both humanities and business. He serves as a teaching assistant for management courses at Harvard University and Hult International Business School, and is a member of the Advisory Board of Shenandoah University’s Transformational Leadership executive program.
Monday, February 17, 2025
Calder Loth
“Alexandria’s Official Historic Landmarks”
The city of Alexandria is enriched with forty-seven places listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. The lists incorporate many areas of significance: architecture, engineering, religion, education, military, and ethnic history, among others. In addition to individual properties, Alexandria’s five historic districts hold an abundant and diverse assemblage of contributing structures. Architectural historian Calder Loth will offer an extensively illustrated presentation on this historic legacy with remarks on the specific attributes of each of the city’s official cultural resources.
Calder Loth is the retired Senior Architectural Historian of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. He serves as Vice-President of the Center for Palladian Studies in America and a member of the Virginia Art and Architectural Review Board. His publications include The Virginia Landmarks Register, Virginia Landmarks of Black History, Lost Virginia, as well as numerous articles relating to historic preservation and classical architecture. In 2008 Loth was the first recipient of the Secretary of the Interior’s Preservation Award for service to state preservation programs. In 2017 he received the Virginia AIA Honor Award for significant contributions to the understanding of Virginia’s built environment.
Please join us in welcoming Calder back to the Association!
Mon. Mar 17
Lucinda Edinburg, “Hammond-Harwood House”
Mon. April 21
Thomas Michie, “New England’s French Connection:
Yankee Entrepreneurs in Post-Revolutionary Paris
Mon. May 19
Nick Stagliano, “Hanns Weinberg and the Antique Porcelain Company”
PLEASE REGISTER GUESTS WITH karen.d.paul1948@gmail.com. Suggested contribution for guests attending a one-time lecture is $10.
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