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New Jersey Architecture: Five Centuries in One Hour

Presented by Janet W. Foster

2022-07-21 19:00:00 2022-07-21 20:00:00 America/New_York New Jersey Architecture: Five Centuries in One Hour Learn more about the wide variety of architectural styles, materials, and techniques that characterize different eras as found throughout New Jersey. Explore From Home - Virtual AS 1

Thursday, July 21
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2022-07-21 19:00:00 2022-07-21 20:00:00 America/New_York New Jersey Architecture: Five Centuries in One Hour Learn more about the wide variety of architectural styles, materials, and techniques that characterize different eras as found throughout New Jersey. Explore From Home - Virtual AS 1

Explore From Home

Virtual AS 1

Learn more about the wide variety of architectural styles, materials, and techniques that characterize different eras as found throughout New Jersey.

* Use this link to join our virtual program: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86549877856

Resource & Further Reading Handout

New Jersey has a long and varied architectural history, reflecting the presence of different settlement groups as well as the changes in building technology over time. This fast and fun lecture highlights buildings of the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries throughout New Jersey.    

Janet W. Foster is an architectural historian and historic preservation consultant with over 30 years of experience with New Jersey’s buildings. She studied at the Columbia University Historic Preservation Program, and then founded Acroterion, a preservation consulting firm, in 1983. At Acroterion, she had the opportunity to study hundreds of buildings in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania through preparation of National Register nominations, Historic Structures Reports, historic buildings surveys, and other projects.  

Ms. Foster is a noted teacher and lecturer on historic architecture. She helped to develop the curriculum at the Drew University Continuing Education Program in Historic Preservation. From 2002 through 2012, Janet W. Foster worked for Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation as Associate Director for the Urban Planning & Historic Preservation Programs. She continues an association with the university as an adjunct professor in the Historic Preservation Program.

She has published numerous articles and books focused on New Jersey architecture, among them, Legacy Through the Lens: Mendham’s Architecture (1986), Building By the Book: Pattern-book Architecture in New Jersey (1992, Rutgers University Press), and The Queen Anne House: America’s Victorian Vernacular (2006, Abrams Publishing).

Ms. Foster lives in Madison, New Jersey, with her husband, in a Queen Anne style house they restored. She currently serves on the New Jersey State Review Board for Historic Sites, and she has a gubernatorial appointment to the board of the New Jersey Historic Trust, where she is currently serving as the Chair of the Grants & Loans Committee.

At the conclusion of the program please feel free to take a brief online survey here:
https://www.projectoutcome.org/responses/61730

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AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Lecture | History |

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