“Building A Handsome Church” Tercentenary Symposium
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Presented by
St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Marblehead, Tercentenary Committee
“Building a Handsome Church” in Essex County, 7 June
The chair of the symposium is Donald R. Friary, President of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and historian of religion and architecture in colonial America. Speakers include:
- Robert L. Howie, Jr., St. Michael’s Church Historian emeritus and Chair of the Tercentenary Committee.
- Stuart P. Feld, President, Hirschl & Galleries, Inc., on “St. Michael’s Marblehead—From Widener Library at Harvard to London and Amsterdam and Back.”
- Christopher P. Magra, Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee, on “‘Extravagance, Intemperance, Negligence in Religion, and Disorderliness’: Marblehead, the Early Years.”
- David D. Hall, Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History, Harvard Divinity School, on “Reliving the Past or Fashioning a Different Future?: Anglicanism and Puritanism in Eighteenth-Century New England.”
- Carl Lounsbury, Senior Architectural Historian, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and College of William and Mary, discussing “The Church of England’s First Colonial Buildings: Virginia, 1608-1714.”
- Louis P. Nelson, Associate Professor of Architectural History and Associate Dean for Research and International Programs, University of Virginia, who will speak about “St. Michael's, Marblehead: A Case Study in Atlantic Anglicanism.”