Union County - Plainfield - IDENTIFYING NEW JERSEY ARCHITECTURAL STYLES FOR LIBRARIANS AND HISTORY EDUCATORS

Tuesday, March 26 – Union County -- Register now --

The History & Preservation Section of the New Jersey Library Association,
The League of Historical Societies of New Jersey, and
The New Jersey Caucus of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
present:

 IDENTIFYING NEW JERSEY ARCHITECTURAL STYLES FOR LIBRARIANS AND HISTORY EDUCATORS
 by Architectural Historian, Lecturer and Educator

Janet Foster

 Plainfield Public Library, Anne Louise Davis Room, (lower level)
800 Park Ave, Plainfield, NJ 07060
Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 10 am to 12 pm
Program fee is $12.50 to NJLA, MARAC, and League of Historical
Society of New Jersey members. Fee is 17.50 to all other attendees.
Registration is required. Click here.

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Learn more about the wide variety of residential architectural styles found throughout New Jersey and how to identify them. Using visual examples, Janet will describe the features that characterize these styles and discuss them in an easy-to-understand historical context.
Our goal is to support and encourage participants to become knowledgeable and familiar with many historical architectural styles found throughout New Jersey, so that we can pass along that knowledge to the patrons and public we serve.

Attendees will learn the proper descriptive terminology that will assist in cataloging and house history research. This seminar will appeal to archivists, history & reference librarians, special materials catalogers, historians, and researchers.

The program will also feature recommended resources for further research.

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.

Currently, Ms. Foster lives in Madison, New Jersey. She serves on the Madison Historic Preservation Commission and the New Jersey State Review Board. She also chairs of the Board of the New Jersey Historic Trust.

Schedule:
10:00-10:45 Speaker
11:05-11:45 Speaker
11:45-12:00 Q & A

Location: 800 Park Ave, Plainfield, NJ 07060, USA

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