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Rural Retreats: The Country House and its Landscape (Baltimore's Great Architecture 2015 Lecture Series)

Homewood Museum
Baltimore, MD

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Homewood Museum of Johns Hopkins University presents the 15th anniversary season of its Baltimore's Great Architecture lecture series, organized as part of AIABaltimore's Baltimore Architecture Month.

Inspired by Homewood's origin as a country retreat of the Carroll family, Homewood Museum presents its 15th anniversary season of lectures, exploring how ideas of landscape changed as urban centers like Baltimore and Philadelphia experienced tremendous growth and prosperity in the post-Revolutionary era.

Presentations by art historian Jenny Carso (Oct. 19: "Working Farms and Scenic Views: The Tradition of the Estate as Landscape in Maryland, 1770-1820"); architect and historian W. Peter Pearre, AIA (Oct. 26: "The Baltimore Country House: Suburban Villas in the Early Republic"), and architectural historian Mark Reinberger and garden historian Elizabeth McLean (Nov. 1: "The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America").