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Recent Articles
January 19th, 2022
“Beyond any other family in the place”: The Donaldsons in Fayetteville, North Carolina
Authors: Grant Quertermous, Curator and Director of Collections, and Robert Leath, President Friends of Classical American Homes and its sites will recognize the name Robert…
November 15th, 2021
A Chronology of Richard H. Jenrette’s Historic Properties, Part I: The Houses
Author: Grant Quertermous, Curator and Director of Collections “There’s no place like home,” Richard H. Jenrette wrote in his book, Adventures With Old Houses, “the…
November 13th, 2021
Gore Vidal at Edgewater
Author: Grant Quertermous, CAHPT Curator & Director of Collections “I have a recurring dream about Edgewater,” author Gore Vidal wrote in his autobiography, Palimpsest, “and…
July 30th, 2021
Bringing Objects Home
Grant Quertermous, CAHPT Curator & Director of Collections In the nearly fifty years that Richard H. Jenrette collected American decorative arts, he and his partner,…
July 30th, 2021
The Ground on Which We Stand
Author: Jeff Klee, Ph.D., CAHPT Vice President & Senior Director of Architecture At all Classical American Homes properties, the setting is as important as the…
July 30th, 2021
“Listening to Land: Cultural Landscape Research in Contemporary Practice” by Thomas Woltz
Landscape architect Thomas Woltz presented “Listening to Land: Cultural Landscape Research in Contemporary Practice” on June 23, 2021 at CAHPT’s Edgewater estate. Listen to Woltz…
June 22nd, 2021
Preservation Begins with Research
Author: Jeff Klee, Ph.D., CAHPT Vice President & Senior Director of Architecture The serious study of architecture is at the heart of the Classical American…