RICHARD MORRIS HUNT PRIZE 2024 REUNION
BOSTON & RHODE ISLAND
Overview Schedule, 7-11 October, 2024
NEW (2 October 2024) Our full program is available here. (Or click on the button below)
(21 September 2024): We’ll be together soon! We’ve added some weather and dressing tips in the travel planning page, and launched a map of our travels. Once our final itinerary is complete, you will receive a printed copy at our welcome in Boston, and all information will be available here on the website.
For the most detailed hour-by-hour itinerary, refer to our program. Below is an overview with links to some further information about the sites.
7 October Monday
19th CENTURY BOSTON : Meet for a morning welcome at the French Library in Back Bay, then tours and sessions in downtown Boston focusing on 19th century sites, including a behind the scenes look at H.H. Richardson’s Trinity Church, and recent preservation work at the African Meeting House and the Boston Athenæum.
8 October Tuesday
20th CENTURY CAMBRIDGE : at Harvard, a glass replacement project at Gund Hall (the Graduate School of Design). At MIT, Eero Saarinen’s Chapel and Kresge Auditorium, and a rare tour of Alvar Aalto’s Baker House dormitory. Train to Providence in afternoon. Evening session in an 18th century schoolhouse.
9 October Wednesday
INDUSTRIAL RHODE ISLAND : bus tour to sites at the heart of the American Industrial Revolution. Stops at Slater Mill in Pawtucket, the Museum of Work and Culture in Woonsocket, and an unusual modern metal house prototype in rural Foster.
10 October Thursday
COLONIAL TO CONTEMPORARY PROVIDENCE : Fellows and scholars reports in the Beaux Arts banking hall that is now the Fleet Library at the Rhode Island School of Design (laureates: please upload your pdf presentation here prior to the meeting, or bring a pdf on a flash drive to the session); see and discuss recent restoration work at McKim Mead & White’s Rhode Island State House; walk through the College Hill National Register Historic District (full of 18th and 19th century landmarks). Tour the very-21st century Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University.
11 October Friday
HIGH AND LOW NEWPORT : High-speed ferry trip down Narragansett Bay to Newport. Choose between low-lying Point neighborhood tours, including the impact of sea-level rise on historic properties, and a house which hosted the American Colonies’ first French-language newspaper. Lunch at the Newport Casino, then behind-the-scenes preservation tours of the highest and lowest floors of Richard Morris Hunt’s best-known mansion. Stroll in a unique contemporary garden at a private estate. Farewell dinner.
12 October Saturday
For those still in town, brunch hosted by Jonathan Bell in downtown Providence.