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Sponsored by the Louisville Historic Society, I presented my findings publically in a paper entitled Exploring Louisville's Candy Store of Historic Architecture. From that research, I developed an interest in two house types, shotguns and bungalow, which I am now researching.
Because I had had some association with the Olmsted Conservancy before coming to Louisville, I was appointed as a steward to the conservancy and park system and had begun to learn more about the parks. Coincidentally, last spring, the Preserving Historic Roads program in the National Park Service issued a call for papers to its September conference in Colorado.
This gave me an opportunity to continue my work on historic roads that I had long pursued at the Center for Historic Architecture and Design (CHAD) for the Byways Program of the Delaware Department of Transportation. In looking at the research on Olmsted, I noticed that much more attention had been paid to his parks than his parkways, which were what made his parks into a system. I proposed a paper on the parkways of Olmsted and Vaux, which was accepted, and I presented that paper last month.
I have been invited to return to Wilmington, Delaware, on November 8, to speak at the dinner marking the 25th anniversary of the Quaker Hill Historic Foundation. Additionally, Dr. Danilo Yanich has invited me to present the Olmsted/Vaux paper to his class on the afternoon of November 8I hope to see many familiar faces there.