Spring 2015 Lectures Series - Tredyffrin Historic Preservation Trust

TREDYFFRIN HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST
SPRING 2015 LECTURE SERIES
“The Pennsylvania Railroad Stations of
Tredyffrin and Easttown Townships”
GREG PRICHARD
HISTORIAN ♦ LECTURER
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Duportail House, 297 Adams Drive, Chesterbrook, PA 19087
Refreshments: 7:00 PM Lecture: 7:30 PM
Cost: $15/person
Greg Prichard is an experienced designer, historian,
and lecturer. A native of Wayne, he pursued a master’s degree in historic preservation planning at Cornell
University, where his thesis explored the history and
preservation issues relating to the historic train stations of the Main Line. His business, Prichard Design
& History Studio (www.designandhistory.com), focuses on bringing historic sites to life through projects
such as interpretive signs. He is a board member of
both the Radnor Historical Society and the TredyffrinEasttown Historical Society.
Strafford Train Station
Greg will talk about several train stations of the Main
Line, focusing on those in Tredyffrin and Easttown
Townships. Main Line development began with the
railroad as its commercial and social backbone, from
the inns that depended on its patrons in the 1830s to
the builders who clustered housing developments
around train stations in the late 19th century. The stations were built as grand statements of corporate superiority and many remain as recognizable gateways
to their communities.
Greg will speak about station architecture and history,
myths vs. reality, the evolution and growth of the railroad in the area, and how past (and future) restoration
efforts helped the stations to endure.
The Trust thanks guest lecturer Greg Prichard for his
charitable sponsorship of this lecture and his continuing historic preservation work in the community.
Devon Train Station
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www.tredyffrinhistory.org ♦ [email protected]
♦ Ticket Info: 610.647.1051
The Trust is grateful to Duportail House Board of Directors for generously allowing
the Trust the use of Duportail House for the Greg Prichard lecture, April 9, 2015.
TREDYFFRIN HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST SPRING 2015 LECTURE SERIES
"WHARTON ESHERICK MUSEUM: TELLING THE
STORY, PRESERVING THE LEGACY"
PAUL EISENHAUER
MANSFIELD BASCOM
EXCUTIVE DIRECTOR,
WHARTON ESHERICK MUSEUM
ARCHITECT
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens, 631 Berwyn Baptist Road, Devon, PA 19333
Refreshments 7:00 PM - Lecture 7:30 PM
Paul Eisenhauer will give an illustrated talk about Wharton Esherick’s life and work in Chester County, with particular emphasis on Sunekrest, the farm that he and his
wife Letty purchased in 1913, and which the Museum repurchased in 2014. Dr. Eisenhauer will share some of
the Museum’s plans for utilizing the space. Mansfield
Bascom will entertain questions about Wharton, Sunekrest and his biography of Esherick.
Cost: $15/person
centrate on writing Wharton Esherick: the Journey of a
Creative Mind, the first complete biography of Wharton
Esherick. He and Ruth have received awards from
Preservation Pennsylvania and the Preservation Alliance
of Greater Philadelphia for their work in preserving Wharton’s studio.
Paul Eisenhauer received his Ph.D. in Sociology from
the University of Pennsylvania. After a 20 year teaching
career, he left academia for the Museum world. He started at the Wharton Esherick Museum as a volunteer in
2003, became Program Director in 2005, Curator in 2008
and Executive director in 2010. He co-curated Wharton
Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern at the
University of Pennsylvania in 2010-11, and co-edited the
catalog for the show. He has edited several books on
Esherick for the Wharton Esherick Museum.
Mansfield Bascom, a retired architect and structural engineer, has been married to Wharton Esherick’s daughter
Ruth for more than 50 years. He and Ruth were instrumental in preserving Wharton’s studio as a historic house
museum. He served as the Museum’s director until 1990,
when he became its curator. He retired in 2007 to con-
Wharton Esherick Museum
www.whartonesherickmuseum.org
The Trust is grateful to Dr. Harold Sweetman and the Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens, www.jenkinsarboretum.org for their generous sponsorship of the “Wharton Esherick Museum: Telling the Story, Preserving the Legacy” lecture on May 7. Plan to arrive early for the lecture and enjoy the botanical gardens wonderful collection of trees, shrubs, wildflowers and ferns.
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Wharton Esherick Museum - May 7
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