Illinois State Museum (ISM) - Land, Life, People & Art.  
www.museum.state.il.us

J.B. Pritzker, Governor
ISM System :Public Events
Visitor Information
Exhibitions
Programs & Events
Publications
Stores & Artisans Shops
Teachers & Students
Lesson Plans!
Online Exhibits
Research & Collections
Staff Directory
Job Opportunities
Members & Donors
Volunteers
Public Museum Grants
About ISM
News/Press Room
Search/Site Map




Join Our E-Mail List
For Email Marketing you can trust





Public Events --

  Brownbag Lectures: Unlocking the Mystery of Edwards Place   

Image from Brownbag Lectures: Unlocking the Mystery of Edwards Place

Brownbag Lectures: Unlocking the Mystery of Edwards Place

  • Location: ISM Research & Collections Center, Springfield
  • Date: Wednesday, September 03, 2014, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Presented by Erika Holst, Springfield Art Association

Built in 1833, Edwards Place is the oldest house in town. The big “mystery of Edwards Place” has been trying to find the original footprint of the house and to understand how the house evolved during the Edwards family’s time there. After three and a half years of dead ends and untenable theories, all the pieces have finally fallen into place. Erika will be showing slides of architectural features of the house to illustrate how the house evolved from an 1833 Greek Revival dwelling to an 1857 Italianate mansion.

Erika Holst is the Curator of Collections of the Springfield Art Association. She has an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. She previously worked for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln and Dickson Mounds Museum.

One of our Brownbag Lectures

Weekly lectures held at the Museum's Research and Collections Center. Lectures are usually held during lunchtime on Wednesday. The RCC is located at 1011 E. Ash Street in Springfield. Access to the building is from 10 ½ Street (between Ash and Laurel Streets), where there is ample visitor parking in the west parking lot. For more information, please call 217-785-0037. Brown Bag Lectures are free and open to the public.

Also, if you want to be informed of upcoming lectures by email, you can sign up for the brownbag announcement list

For more events at ISM Research & Collections Center.