VICTORIAN SOCIETY IN AMERICA

Metropolitan Chapter Tours 1967-2007

1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979-1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

1967
March 25 A Great Day in Philadelphia – Museum, Athe naeum and Lectures
April 22 Essex County, NJ – important Victorian landmarks
May 12 Brownstones – lunch at Montauk Point
May 27 Pennsylvania Houses Along the Delaware River, bus trip
Sept. 23-24 Kingston at the Muenchinger, King Hotel
October 28 Lyndhurst - Washington Irving Home & Lyndhurst

1968
June 8-9 The Victorian Cape May Tour – seaside architecture
Oct. 12-13 A Gala Architectural Tour of Albany, NY – Troy & Olana
November A Walking Tour of Cast-Iron Architecture – Prof. James Marston Fitch

1969
May 4 Chelsea Historic District – Victorian brownstone church
October 11 Hudson River Gothic in Autumn – co-hosts Stewart Manville and Jerry Cohodes
November 8 Congress in Philadelphia – major walking tour

1970
September 13 A Cast-Iron Architecture Tour – Michael Brooks & Margot Gayle.
Oct. 24-25 Weekend in Baltimore – Baltimore Chapter hosts weekend – lectures, tours, dinners

1971
September 11 American Gothic Town – Lyndhurst – Rural 19 th Century Westchester – luncheon included on the tour

1972
Jan./Feb. Walks in Brooklyn Heights and notes written for a tour of City Center made from a visiting group from London
March 5 Tours of architecture of churches and buildings near Grammercy Park followed by a visit to Calvary Church
April 14-15 Delaware – tour of the city on April 14, symposium on April 15
April 22 Architecture tour of Roslyn, LI – Water Mill, Maryknoll
May 4 Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn NY
May 5-6-7 weekend in Indianapolis IN – visit to President Benjamin Harris home, James Whitcomb Riley’s home, and examples of surviving Victorian architecture
June 13 Architecture in Cast Iron – Malcolm Higgs at Lit Bros., Philadelphia PA
Sept. 23 Walking tour of Victorian Germantown, sponsored by Maxwell Mansion Committee
October 7 Architectural tour of Brookline MA. Hosted by New England Chapter
October 14 Tour of Victorian suburbs of Riverdale and Yonkers NY

1973
February 4 Tour and organ concert at St. Paul’s Church, James Dibble of NYC Landmark Preservation Committee
February 24 Eastlake – Hudson River Museum, Mary Jean Madigan, curator
April 13 Georgia Tour, hosted by Victorian Society in America
May 5 Princeton NJ – tour of the university
December 8 Haverford and Bryn Mawr College Campuses – Victorian Society hosted tour

1974
February 24 Eastlake – Influenced American furniture – Hudson River Museum
April 28 The Cast-Iron World of the Astors and the Bond Street area
May 12 A Walk on the West Side – Sarah Landau
May 19 Soho Tour at Broadway and Leonard Streets
June 9 Ladies’ Mile Tour – at Grace Church
June 15 Victorian Parlors at Vassar College
September 21 A Day in Historic Cape May – sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts
Oct.31-Nov.3 Upstairs and Downstairs in the Victorian House – 2 nd Annual workshop at the Athanaeum in Philadelphia
November 10 Walking Tour of the Tweed Courthouse

1975
February 22 Albany NY – architecture of H.H. Richardson; exhibition at the Albany Institute of History; lunch and a tour of Albany’s capitol building
May 10 Bus trip to Hartford, CT – the university; Bushnell Park for a picnic; Colt memorial – annual meeting; Wadsworth Athenaeum for a preview exhibit of Harker furniture. Vincent J. Scully, Yale University speaker
May 18 Bus tour of Brownstone homes in Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Bedford Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill and Fort Greene
July 27 (first summer day trip) to Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s home in Oyster Bay, followed by a visit to Westbury Gardens

1976
April 4 A day tour of Paterson NJ ( Great Falls Park, Alexander Hamilton Memorial, Allied Textile Mill
April 11, May 2, May 23, June 13 Friends of Cast-Iron Architecture - 4 walking toursA
May 2 The Victorian Society’s 1 st Land/Sea trip to Staten Island

1977
Missing

1978
April 15 Upstairs and Downstairs in the Victorian House – morning and afternoon speakers, reception honoring speakers
October 14 The Mercer Mile – Moravian Pottery, visit to 3 museums, University of Pennsylvania
Oct. 26-29 Furniture in Victorian America, Athenaeum of Philadelphia (history, production, sales)

1979-1980
Missing

1981
March 14/15 American Rococo
Sept. 24-27 Dining & Drinking in the 19 th Century (with Philadelphia National Chapter)
December 17 House of the Redeemer

1982
September 15 Circle Line Boat Trip
October 28 Guided Lecture Tours

1983
October 2 Guided Tour of Governors Island
November 19 Architectural Treasures of Philadelphia (with Philadelphia Chapter)

1984
Missing

1985
May 5 A Victorian Walk with David Garrard Lowe, guide at Grace Church
June 9 Oyster Bay – croquet competition at Coe Hall, and dinner

1986
April 26 Celebration of 150 th anniversary of Newark NJ – all day tour of Newark (3 rd oldest city in USA)

1987
May 17 Walking tour of Columbia University, Morningside Heights quarter, conducted by David Garrard Lowe and Stephen E. Gottlieb
June 11 Lyndhurst – croquet demonstrations; refreshments served
Sept.14-Nov.13 Jed Devine – the Bethesda Terrace – palladium prints of Central Park of the Wave Hill Gallery in the Riverdale section of the Bronx
October 15 Meeting for the publishing of the Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States (from small private gardens to National Parks)

1988
April 16 Proposed tour of the grounds of Vanderbilt Mausoleum, Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island
April 16 Ferryboat trip to Staten Island – Sailors’ Snug Harbor, St. Paul’s Church, Alice Austin’s House – Justin Ferate and John Kris Kiewicz, guides
May 1 Walking tour of Fifth Avenue with a possible visit to the Metropolitan Club
July 16 Sycamore Riverdale Historic District – Robert and Celia Kornfeld, historians and guides
July 30 Stoneyard: Symposium and tour; Cathedral of St. John the Divine
October 27 Stanford White and Greenwich Village; Grace Church, Augustus Saint Gaudens’ statue of Peter Cooper – David Garrard Lowe, guide
October 29 Tour of Brooklyn – Greenwood Cemetery, Flatbush; lunch at Heights Casino; Park Slope; Prospect Heights – Justin Ferate, guide
November 12 Tour of Woolworth Building and Grand Central Terminal

1989
May 19 The Brooklyn Bridge (Mother’s Day), Justin Ferate, guide
June 25 Grammercy Park – visit to Theodore Roosevelt’s home, and National Arts Club
August 27 Hastings-on-Hudson – visit to home and studio of Jasper Cropsey, and meeting with Hastings Historical Society

1990
February 5 Brooklyn Museum – tours of Thomas Cole Landscape into History, Dr. Linda Gerber, 19 TH Century Decorative Arts and Period Rooms – Dr. Barry Harwood
June 17 Lyndhurst: Croquet and Ice Cream Party
October 13 Sea Cliff – a day at the Victorian seashore
November 18 Bus tour of the Hudson River Estates, Justin Ferate guide
December 11 Holiday Hopping – private collections of Santa Claus figures; NY Botanical Gardens; Glenview Mansion; Hudson River Museum; Lyndhurst

1991
June 18 Wine reception and twilight walk of historic Tribeca at Hal Bromm Art Gallery – Andrew Scott Dolkart, architectural historian
June 23-20 A study of Glasgow and environs – Assn. of Victorian Society alumni
August 29 Villa Lewaro, home of Merc. J. Walker, maker of hair products. Neo-Palladian structure built 1916-18 in Irving-on-Hudson. The current owners of the estate are trying to convert the structure into a proper museum in honor of the first black millionaire, Mme. Walker
Oct.2-Dec.31 Visions of Washington Irving at Federal Hall ( Historic Hudson Valley White Plains Road) – special exhibit
Oct. 26-27 Fall weekend trip to visit estates of the Hudson River mansions and the Berkshires
October 29 Reception and workshop at the Tenement Museum

1992
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1993
Feb.7-June 1 Visions of Washington Irving – selected works from the Historic Hudson Valley, Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Experiencing Sculpture: The figure in American art 1850-1990
May 14-17 Annual meeting of Victorian Society in Nashville, TN. Walking tours of downtown Nashville
October 18 Tour of Irvington-on-Hudson; afternoon tea at the Octagon House. Bus tour to Irvington
November 6 Tour of Metropolitan Museum exhibition “Alexander Jackson Davis (1802-1892), Amelia Peck, curator
November 15 Gustav Stickley – His Crafty at Craftsman Farms. Parsippany NJ

1993
May 6 Tour of Antebellum Connecticut – the Lockwood Matthew’s mansion (1864-1868). Fairfield to view interior of 2 homes – The Cottage, 1840, Joseph C. Wells early Gothic revival; lunch at First Congregational Church in Fairfield; then to Bridgeport to see the restored library of P.T. Barnum
May-July Joint venture of the Municipal Arts Society and Gray Bus Line New York: Insider’s New York – architectural and historic tours
June or Sept. Possible tour of the Teak House, Lockwood de Forest (a850-1932)
October 19 Tout of Long Island’s North Shore – sites associated with Stanford White and Sidney Mount

1994
April 9 The world of Henry Chopman Mercer in Doylestown, Bucks Co., PA – Moravian pottery and tileworks, Vance Koehler, curator of the tile exhibit
June 4 Forest Hill Gardens – Barry Lewis
September 15 Hudson Valley – Victorian County. Boat tour. Olana (Moorish style house), Esselstine (2 nd Empire mansion), Southwood, Hickory Hill

1995
April 21 John Lafarge and Judson Memorial Church
May 21 Park Slope house tour – Civic Council and Prospect Park West area
June 9 Special tour of the Herter Brothers Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age, led by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger
June 11 Visit to the restored Ballantine House and tour of Newark
November 12 A.W.N. Pugin: Master of Gothic Revival. Pugin designed the House of Parliament. Tour led by Paul Atterby
December 5 19 th Century tour-de-force holiday trip to Delaware galleries at Winterthur, exhibit of Silver in America

1996
September 29 Long Island’s Other East End: the North Fork, Shelter Island, Sag Harbor
October 13 Princeton University – walking tour of the campus, tour of William Appleton realm (1842-1909), Alexander Hull
October 26 Two historic houses in New Jersey: Danforth National Library and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
A suggested tour for Metropolitan Chapter members: Evergreens – the Schulz House (a state and national site) Library Research center, architect Michel Lebrun who also designed the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building in New York
December 7 A day at the Brooklyn Museum of Art: Monet and the Mediterranean, and the furniture of George Hunzinger

1997
Missing

1998
April 8 Shepard-Fabri House

1999
May 22 Two houses on the Delaware River (by coach) – Andalusia, the Grundy House, and St. Paul’s Church, Doylestown
September 15 Hudson Valley, Victorian County Seat tour
October 31 All Hallow’s Eve at Green Wood Cemetery – graves of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Peter Cooper, Currier & Ives; art works by Augustus St. Gaudens and Stanford White
November 13 Eastman Johnson: Painting America, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Teresa A. Carbore, associate curator

2000
January 6 E.W. Goodwin (1833-1886) Aesthetic Movement, Architect & Designer – Bard Graduate Center, private exhibition
January 23 Spend Sunday in historic Stony Brook, LI: the Tile Club and the American Aesthetic Movement 1877-1887. Three Village Inn, the Glass Armonica and a tour of the Melville Carriage Museum
September 29 Art and the Empire City, New York 1825-1861 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, associate curator
October 28 Trip to Washington DC – The Art Nouveau Exhibition – trip cancelled because of insufficient interest
October 31 Grace Church and the Rectory
December 8 Ruskin’s Italy, Ruskin’s England at the Morgan Library

2001
January 23 Splendor in Delaware: to Nemours, near Wilmington, DE. Bus trip. Lunch included

2002
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2003
March 9 Walking tour of the lower east side – Eldridge Street Synagogue
April 26 Tour of Victorian Philadelphia, the Athenaeum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, led by Joyce Mendelson
May 10 Walking tour of Victorian Harlem, New York
June 21 Historic Jim Thorpe, PA, land of the millionaires and the Molly Maguires; Disston Mansion, Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion
October 1 A Chelsea Evening – walking tour of Manhattan’s Chelsea Neighborhood
November 2 Monuments and Mausoleums at Woodlawn Cemetery
November 2 Victorian Nudes – exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art

2004
October 30 Woodlawn Cemetery
December 11 Full day bus tour to visit a collection of Santa Claus figures; the New York Botanical Garden Holiday Displays; Glenview Mansion in Yonkers

2005
April 9 Bonkers for Yonkers – visit to the Hudson River Museum
April 30 Sampling Victorian Staten Island
May 21 Gravestones of Green Wood Cemetery, Jeff Richman, guide
June 11 Gems of Long Island’s Gold Coast – Grand Mansions and Victorian Villas of the North Shore
October 7 Frank Furness, Philadelphia – all day bus tour
October 29 Fabulous Victorian Flatbush – walking tour
November 5 The Hallowed Halls of Bronx Community College
November 12 Visiting Awardees at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Transit Museum
December 10 Holiday Harking in Newark - all day bus tour. Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Ballantine House, Thom Reddie, First Baptist Memorial Church, a Christmas lecture; lunch at Vila Nova so Sol Mar (Portuguese restaurant)

2006
March 29 “4 for the 40” Event – tour of the 352 Riverside Drive property
April 22 Matinee performance of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, followed by wine and cheese reception at Stone Home Wine Bar
May 6 Basking in Brooklyn’s Afro-American Heritage – walking tour (limited to 30 participants)
May 23 Annual Meeting at the New York School of Interior Design – presentation of annual awards, and reception
June 3 Exploration Forest Hills Garden in Queens, with Jeff Gottlieb. Planned suburban development established 1913 designed by architect Grosvenor Atterbury and landscape design by Frederick Law Olmstead Jr.
June 17 Bus tour of LI North Shore, focusing on architecture of Delano and Aldrich. Led by Anne Walker, followed by reception at Chelsea, former Benjamin Moore estate in Muttontown
September 30 The High Points of Lehigh Valley. Included Sayre Mansion and Holland Mansion.
October 8 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Walking Tour. Theme – Pratts as Architectural Patrons – Guide, Andrew Dolkart, Architectural Historian & Professor of Historic Preservation Columbia University.
October 28th Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island, New York. Theme-Making History at the Moravian Cemetery. Guide, Richard Simpson, Historian of the Moravian Cemetery.
November. New York As Port City.
December 16 Holiday Tours: “Heralding the Holidays West of the Hudson” and again on January 6 (2007) “Holiday Tour: Lighting Twelfth Night." Sites included, Glenmont, house and gardens of Thomas A. Edison, Llewellyn Park, West Orange, NJ; Lunch at Pal’s Cabin; Tours of birthplace of Grover Cleveland, West Caldwell, NJ; and tour and reception at Lambert Castle, Paterson, NJ.

2007
January 6 Holiday Tour (see December 16th 2006)
February 17 Tours of two Exhibitions: “Josef Hoffmann: Interiors, 1902-1913” at the Neue Galerie, and “Laurelton Hall: Louis Comfort Tiffany” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
May 6 Synagogues of the Lower East Side. Walking tour with Joyce Mendelsohn –author of "The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited"
May 19 “Gardens of the Garden State” bus tour. Included were visits to Duke Gardens and Dye Mansion.
June 14 “New York as Port City,” viewing vestiges of the city’s seafaring past at Battery Maritime Ferry Terminal, New York Unearthed, and rarely seen rooms at the Alexander Hamilton Custom’s House designed by Cass Gilbert.
October 5 Tour of the Seventh Regiment Armory designed by Charles W. Clinton (1877-1879).
October 20 “Capitalists of the Connetquot” Bus tour. South shore of Long Island visiting: homes of William Bayard Cutting; William Kissam Vanderbilt; the Bayard Cutting Arboretum, Idlehour (Vanderbilt Estate); the Southside Sportsmen’s Club; and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church.
October 21 Upper Level donors tour of the 19th century art and artifact sale at Christie's, New York.
October 27 “Traversing Tranquil Trinity Tract” – a walking tour with historian Jay Shockley of Trinity Church’s uptown cemetery established in 1843.
November 9 “Foray Onto 44th Street”. Tours of the library at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen; the Harvard Club; and the New York Yacht Club.
December 8 “Seasonal Sights of Staten Island” Holiday tour. Includes Alice Austen House, the Garibaldi-Meucci Memorial Museum, and the Snug Harbor Cultural Center.

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