The final 2013 Jonathan L. Fairbanks Lecture at The Ayer Mansion, 395 Commonwealth Avenue, will take place Tuesday, September 17, with Jeanne Pelletier, Preservation Advisor, The Campaign for the Ayer Mansion, who will speak on Tiffany as Architect and Interior Designer. Wine and cheese will be served at 6:30, with the lecture following at 7. Tickets ($25, $5 students) are available on line at www.AyerMansion.org.
The third in the 2013 Jonathan L. Fairbanks Lecture Series at The Ayer Mansion, 395 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, will take place Tuesday, June 18, with Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History at University of Virginia speaking on Meaning in Louis Comfort Tiffany: Laurelton Hall and Windows. The evening will begin at 6:30 with wine and cheese, followed by the lecture at 7. Tickets ($25, $5 students) may be purchased on line at www.AyerMansion.org.
The 2013 Jonathan L. Fairbanks Lecture Series kicks off Tuesday, January 15 at The Ayer Mansion, 395 Commonwealth Avenue, with Tricia Pongracz, Acting Director and Director of Curatorial Affairs, The Museum of Biblical Art, New York City, who will speak on Cues from Ravenna: How Italy Inspired Tiffany’s Residential Work. Wine and cheese will be served beginning at 6:30 pm, and the lecture will begin at 7. Tickets ($25, $5 for students) may be purchased on line at www.AyerMansion.org.
On Tuesday, March 13, Ronald Lee Fleming, FAICP, will present an illustrated lecture at The Ayer Mansion, 395 Commonwealth Avenue, as part of the 2011-2012 Jonathan L. Fairbanks Lecture Series Behind Closed Doors: Learning From Historic Interiors. Ron’s talk is entitled Bellevue House: Reimagined and Its Gardens Reinvented. The speaker has been featured in The New York Times home and garden section, and is an urban designer, author of The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design and preservationist. Wine and cheese will be served at 6:30, with the program beginning at 7 pm. Tickets ($25) may be purchased by mail (make checks payable to The Campaign for the Ayer Mansion and mail to The Campaign for the Ayer Mansion, Inc., 395 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215) or on line at www.AyerMansion.org.
The Jonathan L. Fairbanks Lecture Series at The Ayer Mansion, 395 Commonwealth Avenue, continues Tuesday, January 17 at 6:30 with a talk by William S. Young, Historic Color Designer and Back Bay Architectural Commission staff person, who will speak on Peculiar Dignity: Arthur Little Interiors in the Back Bay. Wine and cheese will be served at 6:30, with the program beginning at 7 pm. Tickets ($25) may be purchased by mail (make checks payable to The Campaign for the Ayer Mansion and mail to The Campaign for the Ayer Mansion, Inc., 395 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215) or on line at www.AyerMansion.org.
