NEW! Historic House Museum Preservation
Instructor, Keith MacKay, Director of Historic Preservation, Ten Chimneys
Join the historic preservation movement by exploring the history of house museums such as Mount Vernon, Fallingwater (Frank Lloyd Wright’s design with Edgar Kauffman) and Tenement buildings in New York City. Led by Keith MacKay, the director of historic preservation at Ten Chimneys, discover and learn in one day about the earliest efforts to save places such as these, and the tasks needed to preserve these historic houses. Following this class step into the past with an option in-depth preservation-focused tour of Ten Chimneys. Class is held at the Lunt-Fontanne Program Center at Ten Chimneys, S43 W31575 Depot Road, Genesee Depot, WI 53127.
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Keith D. MacKay: is the Director of Historic Preservation at Ten Chimneys Foundation, the country estate of Broadway legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Previously, Keith was the Assistant Director of Historic Savannah Foundation’s Davenport House Museum and Research Assistant for the White House Historical Association. He has his MA in the History of Decorative Art and a BA in Art History. Keith is an alumnus of the Attingham Summer School. Publications include "The William Wilson Corcoran Mansion" and "Caroline Harrison’s Music Room" both White House History Journal and "Victorian Revival in Wisconsin: Neo-Rococo Surrealism at Ten Chimneys" in Nineteenth Century.
Sat, March 10, 10:00am-12:00pm, $59 (optional tour immediately after class)
