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Dear Colleagues: For those of you in New York City or planning travel there in the next few weeks, this is a reminder about an important architecture exhibition now taking place at the Merchant's House Museum. The museum is located at 29 East 4th Street, (between Lafayette Street and Bowery) New York, NY 10003, telephone: 212-777-1089 The exhibition features 23 American architecture books from the University of Notre Dame Architecture Library's Rare Book Collection. Thomas Gordon Smith, professor of architecture at Notre Dame, is the chief curator of the show. Details on the exhibition are included below. Best regards, Jane Devine The landmark Merchant's House Museum -- New York City's only family home preserved intact, inside and out, from the 19th century -- will be the site of a major Classical America exhibition, "Minard Lafever and His Circle: The Diffusion of Grecian Architecture in the United States, 1830-1860," opening Thursday, October 26, 2000. The exhibit will be on view through Monday, December 11, 2000. Classical America is sponsoring the exhibition and colloquium along with four other nonprofit groups, including the Merchant's House Museum, the Institute of Classical Architecture, the University of Notre Dame, and the Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism. "Classical America is delighted to be undertaking this first major study of one of the most influential American architects of the 19th-century," said Richard Franklin Sammons, Chairman of the Board of Directors. "Through his publications and his designs, along with the work of the architects in his circle, Minard Lafever had a profound impact on America's public and domestic architecture. By timing our exhibit to coincide with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's wide-ranging fall exhibit focused on the same period, 1825-1861, we will be able to offer scholars, students, and the general public an in-depth look at his career and his great legacy." Added chief curator Thomas Gordon Smith: "Lafever was directly inspired by the rediscovery during the 18th century of Greek monuments in Athens, and he developed a distinctive expression for classical buildings that remains influential to this day. Thanks to the generosity of many lenders to the exhibit, we will show how a small group of dedicated architects changed forever the face of the built environment in New York City. We will also examine the cultural out-flow of this movement and its effect on the architecture of New Orleans, Charleston, and other southern cities as well as the architecture of the midwest and on out to Oregon and gold-rush-era California. The exhibition will range throughout two floors of the Merchant's House, and will have something in it to interest anyone wanting to learn more about the culture and commerce of 19th-century America." Margaret Halsey Gardiner, Executive Director of the Merchant's House Museum, commented: "In terms of its scope, this is an unprecedented exhibit for the Museum, and our landmarked Greek Revival interiors will be a perfect setting for the architectural models, drawings, photographs, and books being assembled here from collections across the country. It will also give us the welcome opportunity to showcase significant items from our own collections in a new context, and help further our mission to educate the public about 19th-century history and culture as uniquely represented by the Merchant's House. What we hope visitors will come away with is a better appreciation of the origins of the classical elements that distinguish historic buildings in their own neighborhoods and communities - and how strongly those buildings reflect the vision of a small group of New York City's architects in particular." --------------------------------------- Jane Devine, Architecture/Art Librarian Chair, Art Libraries Society of North America Midstates Chapter Architecture Library, 117 Bond Hall University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5652 tel:219-631-9401/631-6654 fax:219-631-9662 email: [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask]