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Field SessionsSaturday, November 6 Galveston’s Historic House Museums [FS1] - $40 This tour will visit four of Galveston’s historic house museums. The tour will be led by restoration architects, craftspeople and historians involved with the rehabilitation of the houses. To help maintain the houses, please do not wear high heels. 1838 Michel B. Menard House 1839 Samuel May Williams House 1859 Ashton Villa 1895 Moody Mansion Decorative Painting in Galveston [FS2] - $30 This tour will visit highlights of Galveston’s interior decorative painting with an emphasis on the varying preservation approaches and stewardship of decorative finishes. The 1859 St. Joseph's Church, a wood-framed German Catholic building has its original painted ceiling. Prior to restoration, the high style 1895 Moody Mansion had its decorative painting covered with several layers of modern coatings. The decorative paint restoration involved curatorial stabilization and consolidation of historic painted surfaces, reproduction of historic decorative patterns and the application of 23 karat gold leaf, silver and aluminum leaf to walls, ceilings, ornamental bas relief friezes, cornices and ceiling coves. The Moody Mansion is now operated as a house museum. To help maintain the facilities, please do not wear high heals. Sacred Places [FS3] - $30 The Sacred Places Tour will include worship spaces from a number of different religious faiths. Tour stops include Saint Augustine of Hippo, the oldest African American Episcopal congregation in the State of Texas; Reedy Chapel, the mother church of the Africa Methodist Episcopal denomination; St. Mary's Co-Cathedral; and Saints Constantine and Helen Serbian Orthodox Church. Architects and church congregants will serve as tour guides to specifically address the preservation challenges of these sacred buildings. Please dress respectfully - no shorts. Nicholas Clayton and Galveston [FS4] - $30 In the late 1800s Galveston was known as the “Queen of the Gulf.” The city’s active Gulf Coast port supported a thriving merchant class of bankers, cotton brokers and entrepreneurs. Architect Nicholas Clayton and his contemporaries transformed the sand barrier island into a city of majesty, grace and architectural splendor. This tour, led by Barrie Scardino, architectural writer and author of the book, Clayton’s Galveston, will take an in-depth look at Clayton’s architectural legacy on the island with visits to commercial and residential buildings and cemetery mausoleums. San Jacinto Battleground [FS5] - $45 Visit the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site where on April 21, 1836, Texas won its independence from Mexico and set the stage for America’s expansion to the west. This tour, led by historians and interpretive specialists, will visit the surrounding battle sites that tell the story that led up to the final conflict. The tour will focus on the historic aspects of the landscape and include a discussion by Texas Parks and Wildlife of the philosophies and challenges of the current battlefield restoration. Saturn V Rocket [FS6] - $45 Located on the grounds of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Saturn V Rocket is made up of actual launch stages and spacecraft intended to propel Americans into Earth orbit and to the Moon. Owned by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and on loan to NASA, the 364.4 foot rocket has been on outdoor display since 197 where high humidity, sunlight and air pollution have taken their toll. This tour, led by Conservation Solutions Inc. and their expert team, will discuss the preservation of this significant structure and the unique project challenges. |
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