February Calendar

FEB. 19-21
ARTS & CRAFTS CONFERENCE
GROVE PARK INN
ASHEVILLE, N.C.

The 22nd annual Arts & Crafts Conference, organized by conference director Bruce Johnson, will include seminar speakers, hands-on workshops, daily discussion groups, walking tours and house tours, demonstrations, educational exhibits and booths containing some of the leading Arts & Crafts antiques dealers, artists and artisans. “Every aspect of this three-day event is designed with you in mind,” says Johnson. “From each of the eight major seminars to the daily Small Group Discussions to the 125 exhibitors, every activity and each event for these three days have been selected with you, your Arts & Crafts education, your home, and your enjoyment in mind.”
The Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Conference includes the country’s largest and most important Arts & Crafts antiques show of the year. Dealers are from across the United States and England, bringing a wide variety of furniture, art pottery, metalware, textiles, books and art. Visitors can view rare examples of Stickley, Roycroft and Limbert furniture, Rookwood, Grueby and Van Briggle pottery and Dirk van Erp, Karl Kipp and Liberty metalware — as well as their more common (and more affordable) counterparts:  Lifetime, Stickley Brothers and J.M. Young furniture, Roseville, Weller and Wheatley pottery and Old Mission Kopper Kraft, Roycroft and Heinrichs metalware.
For questions pertaining to the conference events, phone Johnson at (828) 628-1915. For conference registration, call Sarah Urquhart at the same number.
SOHO LECTURE: THE NEW
ADOBE HOME
FEB. 25, 6-7:30 p.m.
Adobe Chapel Museum, 3963 Conde St., Old Town, San Diego.
Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO) will present a lecture on the new book “The New Adobe Home,” followed by a book signing and light refreshments.
Join authors Michael Byrne and Dottie Larson as they present the use of adobe through a variety of exceptionally elegant homes in California, New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico. These homes comprise a combination of history, furnishings, art, and interior and exterior spaces with adobe construction, adobe style, or detailing. Adobe is a material suitable for the humblest of dwellings to the grandest. Easily shaped into dramatic architectural features such as archways, niches, and fireplaces, with its natural or whitewashed color and texture, it serves as a dramatic backdrop for all styles of furnishings and art.
About the book
This beautiful volume features examples of luxurious adobe or adobe-style homes, including a centuries-old renovated hacienda, once the home of a past president of Mexico; a mid-century Clifford May masterpiece; a luxurious estate that pairs Southwestern style with Asian influences; a contemporary dwelling that sits like a sculpture in the Sonoran Desert; and many others. San Diego is featured with several exceptional adobes both historic and contemporary as well as other Southern California homes. Stunning photographs of each home by photographer Amy Haskell are accompanied by an exploration of what makes the home special and unique.
About the authors
With a love of adobe buildings and design in general, Michael Byrne designed an adobe home for partner Dottie Larson and himself, creating a wonderful backdrop for her art as well as for other artists. Byrne graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in architecture, and from the University of Arizona with a master’s in city planning. He is a principal with the WLB Group Inc., a Tucson, Phoenix, Flagstaff, and Las Vegas, Nevada, firm offering planning, landscape architecture, and engineering services. Dottie Larson earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology, University of Dayton, and completed an art major at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Her love of interior spaces and art has driven her to launch a new career in interior design with her own consulting business after almost thirty years as graphic design and graphic standards director at the University of Arizona, along with interior design, Larson is an artist and paints non-objective art, acrylic on canvas, large format.
Book & Lecture $38.06 (Includes tax).
Lecture only $15 (Free with purchase of the book).
For more, call (619) 297-9327.

MARCH
SOHO ANNUAL HISTORIC
HOME TOUR
MARCH 21
Save Our Heritage Organisation’s annual Historic Home Tour begins at the SOHO Museum Shop at the Marston House at 3525 Seventh Ave. in the 1905 Carriage House. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
A Show & Sale 
will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the grounds of the Marston House. 
Antiques and new furnishings from invited vendors who cater to collectors and historic homeowners.
A Silent Auction 
will be 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the grounds of the Marston House. 
Proceeds from the one-day Tour, Sale and Auction will benefit SOHO’s advocacy and preservation work.
About the Tour
This is a rare opportunity to tour five private historic homes on San Diego’s Seventh Avenue. The fabled homes, designed and built for prominent citizens between 1904 and 1913, form one of Southern California’s architecturally significant enclaves. Bordering on Balboa Park, the houses are the work of four of San Diego’s most acclaimed architects: Irving J. Gill, William Hebbard, Frank Mead and Richard Requa. Representative of the Arts and Crafts movement, these homes are the result of Gill’s experimental early modernism and Mead’s fascination with the indigenous architecture of the American Southwest and North Africa.
Advance tickets are $25 for SOHO members, $30 for nonmembers. Call (619) 297-9327 or (619) 297-7511.
Hebbard and Gill, San Diego’s most prestigious architecture firm in the early 20th century, designed several of the residences that will be open to tour, beginning with the 1905 Arts and Crafts-style mansion for George White Marston, a visionary civic leader, philanthropist and early conservationist and historic preservationist. 

During a drawn-out construction period due to Gill’s work on the East Coast, the architect persuaded the Marstons to eliminate non-structural half-timbering from the exterior. This change from a design rooted in the English Arts and Crafts tradition thrust the house into modernity, as did interior design innovations.
Also in 1905, Alice Lee, a socially prominent developer, hired Hebbard and Gill to design three homes arranged around a common central garden. She and her companion, Katherine Teats, shared the center house, which will be open for the tour, where they entertained President and Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt and Mrs. Grover Cleveland. They rented out the side cottages, which were joined to the main house by a U-shaped pergola. Architectural historian Thomas S. Hines has written that these horizontal, hip-roofed structures represent “the best of Gill’s California improvisations on (Frank Lloyd) Wright’s Prairie themes.” 

Marston sold land directly north of the Marston House to his sister and brother-in-law, Lilla and Frederick Burnham, another civic leader who was a harbor commissioner in 1906. They also hired Hebbard and Gill, with Gill as the lead designer, to design a large, boxy red brick house that broke with the English Arts and Crafts cottage style in favor of the more modern streamlined style of its neighbor, the Marston house. 

Mead and Requa designed a stripped-down, geometric home inspired by Pueblo architecture for Lorenze and Miriam Barney in 1913. It stands next to the house Lorenze’s parents had commissioned two years earlier from Pacific Building Company, a San Diego design and construction firm staffed by Gill’s former draftsmen.

CORONADO MUSEUM OF HISTORY
AND ART
“Hotel del Coronado Tour”: The Coronado Museum of History and Art offers a one-hour, docent-led tour of the Hotel del Coroado and its history. It is the only tour to go inside the hotel. Make reservations through the Coronado Visitors Center by calling (619) 437-8788. The fee is $15. Tours run Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. and Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.

“Promenade Through the Past”: Departs from the lobby of the Museum of History and Art, 1100 Orange Ave, Wednesdays at 2 p.m. Learn about some of Coronado’s famous buildings and architectural sites, including Tent City resort. Tour fee includes “Promenade through the Past – A Walking Tour Guidebook of Coronado” and covers admission into the Museum of History and Art. $10. (619) 437-8788. Reservations Required.

GAMBLE HOUSE
ONGOING, PASADENA
The David B. Gamble House, constructed in 1908, is an internationally recognized masterpiece of the turn-of-the-century Arts & Crafts movement in America. It is the most complete and original example of the work of architects Charles and Henry Greene and a National Historic Landmark. One-hour guided tours Thursday-Sunday noon to 3 p.m. Closed national holidays. General admission: $8; Students/65+: $5; Children under 12 with an adult, free. Group tours available by reservation. For information call (626) 793-3334.

MUSEUM OF ART
ONGOING, LONG BEACH
The museum home includes a splendid, imposing example of the Craftsman bungalow. Built in 1912 as the summer home of heiress Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, it has the natural materials and rugged texture of wood shingles and clinker brick. The prominent gables and projecting rafter beams, like the rest of the main house and carriage house, retain their original integrity. The style is echoed by similar homes in the nearby Bluff Park Historic District. 2300 E. Ocean Blvd. (562) 439-2119.

STANLEY RANCH MUSEUM
ONGOING, GARDEN GROVE
A California bungalow built in 1916 is one focal point of this two-acre property, home to some of Garden Grove’s oldest homes and business buildings. Phone the Garden Grove Historical Society at (714) 530-8871.

LUMMIS HOME MUSEUM
ONGOING, HIGHLAND PARK
The arroyo-stone home built by Charles Fletcher Lummis, founder of the Southwest Museum, is a state historic monument listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 200 E. Ave. 43. Friday-Sunday, noon-4 p.m. Free; donations accepted. For information, call (323) 222-0546.

LANTERMAN HOUSE TOUR
ONGOING, LA CANADA
The Craftsman-style house, built in 1914 by Arthur Haley, was the region’s first concrete residence. Located at 4420 Encinas Dr., it is open Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the first and third Sundays of the month, from 1-4 p.m. Adults, $3; students, $1; under 12, free. For more information, call (818) 790-1421.

HOMESTEAD MUSEUM
ONGOING, CITY OF INDUSTRY
Documenting a century of Southern California history, the six-acre museum features the Workman House, La Casa Nueva and El Campo Santo cemetery; 15415 E. Don Julian Road. Tuesday through Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. (626) 968-8492.

L.A. ART DECO TOURS
ONGOING, LOS ANGELES
Tours of downtown Los Angeles are led on Saturdays; $5 admission. For reservations, call (213) 623-CITY.

JUDSON STUDIOS
ONGOING, LOS ANGELES
The Judson Studios served as the turn-of-the-century core of the Arroyo Craftsman movement, located at 200 S. Ave. 66. For more information, call (800) 445-8376 or click on judsonstudios.com.

HERITAGE VILLAGE TOUR
ONGOING, CLAREMONT
The first Saturday of each month. The 1 3/4 hour walk begins at 10 a.m. in front of the Historic Claremont Metrolink Depot, 200 W. First St. (Walk is canceled if it’s raining at 8 a.m.) Call (909) 621-8871.

RIORDAN MANSION PARK
ONGOING, FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ.
One of Arizona’s best examples of Craftsman architecture, the mansion was designed by Charles Whittlesey and built as a duplex. Original furnishings, including pieces by Ellis, Stickley and Tiffany Studios, are found at the house museum. Guided, handicapped-accessible tours are held daily. The house is located at 409 Riordan Road. Further details are available at (520) 779-4395.

BOETTCHER MANSION
OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN
ONGOING, GOLDEN, COLO.
Tour a 1917 Arts & Crafts mansion, a 10,000-square-foot summer home built by Charles Boettcher, famous Colorado entrepreneur. Dramatic cathedral ceilings with carved beams, massive stone walk-in fireplace, some original hardware and lighting. See permanent exhibit of early mansion photos and original blueprints, including an ink-on-linen drawing. Open all year, generally Monday through Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday varies. On 110 forested acres with views of the Continental Divide and the Colorado plains. Twenty minutes from Denver. Free for touring. Call (303) 526-0855.

MOSS MANSION
ONGOING, BILLINGS, MONT.
Nearly unchanged since 1903, Moss Mansion, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, can be found on the National Register of Historical Places. Visitors will find original furniture, Oriental carpets, handmade light fixtures, and a variety of design styles inside the mansion. Contact (406) 256-5100.

KELL HOUSE
ONGOING, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS
Frank Kell built one of the most architecturally significant buildings in Wichita Falls, the red-brick neoclassic Kell House in 1909. It features distinctive architecture, original family furnishings, textiles, decorative arts and early-20th-century costumes. Exhibitions change in April and September. Ask for directions to the Southland and Floral Heights bungalow neighborhoods when you visit. The Kell House is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday from 2-4 p.m. Adults, $3; children 12 and under, $1. For information, call (940) 723-2712.

VAN BRIGGLE POTTERY
ONGOING, COLORADO SPRINGS
With its works showcased in world-renowned museums such as the Louvre and Metropolitan Museum of Art, complimentary tours of the Van Briggle studio were established in 1899. Call (719) 633-7729 for further information.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOME AND STUDIO
ONGOING, OAK PARK, ILL.
These 45-minute guided tours of the restored Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio are offered year-round at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 951 Chicago, Oak Park, IL 60302, (708) 848-1976.

UNITY TEMPLE
ONGOING, OAK PARK, ILL.
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the temple is open weekdays, 1-4 p.m., with weekend guided tours. Call (708) 383-8873. More Craftsman gems are evident throughout Chicagoland neighborhoods.

JOHNSON WAX CO. BUILDING
ONGOING, RACINE, WIS.
Reservations are required for tours, held Fridays only, of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building. Call (262) 260-2000 for information.

BRYN ATHYN CATHEDRAL
ONGOING, BRYN ATHYN, PENN.
Guided tours of the center of the Swedenborgian community. Specialty tours by request. The cathedral was built between 1919-1927 using a purist idea of the Arts & Crafts Artisan Guild System. Some of the original guild shops are still in use and continue to house craftsmen. This building and its environment are unique among Arts & Crafts communities in that the religious beliefs of the Swedenborgian community were blended with the Arts & Crafts ideology. Tours for individuals are free. Tours for large groups $2 per person. Contact the cathedral between the hours of 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at (215) 947-0266.

GUSTAV STICKLEY EXHIBIT
ONGOING, SYRACUSE, N.Y.
A small ongoing exhibit of Gustav Stickley and the Arts & Crafts era. Showing period examples of his work along with his peers. At the Everson Museum, corner of Harrison and State streets. Call (315) 447-6064.

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
ONGOING, NEW YORK
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the museum is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Call (212) 423-3500 for more.