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Vassar Alum Martha Frish will survey "Some Symbols in the Architecture at Vassar: A Brief Architectural Tour." This illustrated presentation will highlight features of the campus which distinguish it from other American colleges. Notably, Vassar offers a strong sense of its unique place. For its first century or so, Vassar's administration sought to be representative of its time period. Usually the college hired notable architects and gave them considerable freedom in their commisions.
Examining many of the buildings in their settings, both the landscape and their historical period, illustrates the ways in which Vassar stands out as a physical documentation of the architectural history of the United States an its underlying philosophies. So, too, the encouragement of new building styles and materials demonstrate Vassar's position at the forefront of modern life.
This presentation forms an introduction to the RGME Visit to Vassar College on Monday 5 May to examine a selection of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, fragments, and cuttings. It sets the scene for the visit by locating it within the physical space of the collections of such materials at both the Franci\es Lehman Loeb Art Center and Special Collections in the Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library.
Martha's invitation to examine the buildings and their own settings afreah forms a perfect companion to the ways in which readers, students, and beholders would look at the manuscript sources in order to discover more of their meanings and their stories.
For information see:
https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rgme-visit-to-vassar-college/
Image: "The Quad as Exterior Room," viewed from the top of Jewitt. Photograph by Martha Frish.
