Program - Society of Architectural Historians

Cost:
AIA/CES:
TR16
1:00–5:00 p.m.
Maximum number of participants: 40
Mobility level 3, extensive walking and stairs
$65 Includes transportation, bottle of water and
admission fee
4 LU
Detroit Arts and Crafts
Michael Farrell, University of Windsor, Tour Leader
This tour will explore a portion of the significant
heritage of Detroit’s Arts and Crafts movement. The city’s first Arts
and Crafts Society was founded in 1906 with George Booth, patron
of Cranbrook, as the group’s first president. In 1915 the Society
erected the first purpose-built Arts and Crafts Society structure
in the country. Remnants of the city’s rich involvement with the
movement still exist. We will visit the Scarab Club (Lancelot Sukert,
1928), which began in 1907 as a private artists’ club and continues
as a club today. The current building, with the large Pewabic ceramic
scarab on the exterior, houses an active organization of artists,
musicians, actors, and writers. Perhaps the most famous Arts and
Crafts structure in the area is the Pewabic Pottery Company (Stratton
and Baldwin, 1907), a National Historic Landmark. There, Mary
Chase Perry (later, Mary Chase Perry Stratton) and her partner, Horace
Caulkins, produced their unique and outstanding ceramic work,
much of which decorates buildings throughout the Detroit area.
We will also visit the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Cram, Goodhue,
and Ferguson, 1911), designed by famed church architect Ralph
Adams Cram as a revival of fourteenth-century English Gothic. Our
last stop will be the Art House, a beautifully restored 1872 Gothic
Revival home located in Detroit’s historic Brush Park, where guests
will be treated to wine and light hors d’oeuvres.
1:00–5:00 p.m.
Maximum number of participants: 40
Mobility level 1
Cost: $40 Includes transportation, bottle of water; refreshments
provided by Art House
AIA/CES: 4 LU
TR17 Grosse Pointe
Izzy Donnelly and Susan Hartz, Grosse Pointe Historical
Society, Tour Leaders
This tour of architectural gems in Grosse Pointe,
Michigan, will include the Provencal-Weir House c. 1823, the exterior
of Grosse Pointe South High School (1928) and Marcel Breuer’s
Grosse Pointe Library (1953), as well as several neighborhoods. The
size and style of the homes are quite different. The prevailing architecture
styles include neo-Georgian, Tudor revival, Dutch Colonial
and Arts and Crafts. Grosse Pointe became heavily populated between
1910 and 1930 as one of Detroit’s first commuter suburbs. In
the previous century Grosse Pointe was home to cottages, resorts,
farms, and widely spaced lakefront mansions. Tea and cookies will
be served.
1:00–5:00 p.m.
Maximum number of participants: 40
Mobility level 1
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