BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20110412T233000Z DTEND:20110413T004500Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Architect Claude Bragdon: More Lives Than One DESCRIPTION:Andrea Reithmayr\, curator of collections at the University of Rochester Libraries\, explores the life and work of the modernist Rochester architect Claude Bragdon in this lecture. Today\, Bragdon (1866-1946) is best known as a first-generation modernist architect\, but he also wrote extensively about theater\, film\, color\, yoga\, feminism\, Theosophy\, and more. Although Bragdon?s architectural masterpiece\, the New York Central Railroad Station in Rochester\, was demolished in the 1960s\, many of his designs still remain. Among these are nearly 100 residences\, including the Bragdon House Bed and Breakfast at 527 South Main Street in Geneva and portions of the Nestor House\, now Geneva on the Lake.\n\nAndrea Reithmayr co-edited the book Claude Bragdon and the Beautiful Necessity\, which contains both essays by scholars and a catalogue of the 2010 exhibition on Bragdon she curated at the University of Rochester?s Department of Rare Books & Special Collections. Copies of the book will be available for purchase following her presentation. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Andrea Reithmayr\, curator of collections at the University of Rochester Libraries\, explores the life and work of the modernist Rochester architect Claude Bragdon in this lecture. Today\, Bragdon (1866-1946) is best known as a first-generation modernist architect\, but he also wrote extensively about theater\, film\, color\, yoga\, feminism\, Theosophy\, and more. Although Bragdon?s architectural masterpiece\, the New York Central Railroad Station in Rochester\, was demolished in the 1960s\, many of his designs still remain. Among these are nearly 100 residences\, including the Bragdon House Bed and Breakfast at 527 South Main Street in Geneva and portions of the Nestor House\, now Geneva on the Lake.\n
Andrea Reithmayr co-edited the book Claude Bragdon and the Beautiful Necessity\, which contains both essays by scholars and a catalogue of the 2010 exhibition on Bragdon she curated at the University of Rochester?s Department of Rare Books &\; Special Collections. Copies of the book will be available for purchase following her presentation. LOCATION:Geneva Historical Society 543 South Main Street Geneva\, NY UID:e.248.3000 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260410T234454Z URL:https://members.flxchamber.com/events/details/architect-claude-bragdon-more-lives-than-one-04-12-2011-3000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR