[1] Newport (May 30-June 8, 2025)
[2] Chicago (June 11-18, 2025)
[3] London (June 28-July 13, 2025)
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[1] Newport (May 30-June 8, 2025)
Join renowned architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson in his last year as director to experience and study four centuries of architecture, art, culture, and landscape in the “Queen” of American resorts. Visit iconic sites including Richard Morris Hunt’s Marble House, The Breakers, and Ochre Court; Richard Upjohn’s Richard Upjohn’s Kingscote, and H.H. Richardson’s Sherman House. Additional highlights include McKim, Mead & White’s Isaac Bell House and downtown casino, as well as historic gardens, churches, and opportunities to view Tiffany windows and paintings by leading American artists. Field trips include visits to Providence, RI and North Easton, MA. Participants are housed in Ochre Lodge at Salve Regina University, designed by local architect Dudley Newton in 1890. Tuition of $3,700 includes single occupancy accommodation, instruction, travel during the program and course materials. More details at https://victoriansociety.org/newport-summer-school/

[2] Chicago (June 11-18, 2025)
Explore the roots of American modernism during this six-day program, including visits to private homes and public buildings, parks and landscapes, with access to the era’s most significant spaces: the site of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, H. H. Richardson’s Glessner House, Adler & Sullivan’s Auditorium Theatre Building, Burnham & Root’s Rookery Building, the superb decorative arts collection at Crab Tree Farm, and America’s first planned industrial community of Pullman. Tours of Oak Park, the Gilded Age mansions of Chicago’s Gold Coast, and the Art Institute are also included, among other sites. Tuition of $3400 includes single occupancy accommodation, course materials, tours and lectures. More details at https://victoriansociety.org/chicago-summer-school/

[3] London (June 28-July 13, 2025)
Spend two weeks exploring the history of British architecture, design, and interiors from 1837-1914. Led by Kit Wedd, along with a distinguished array of expert curators, academics, and historians, for a detailed study of public monuments, private venues, and the history of the built environment and England’s industrial heritage in London, Liverpool Birmingham and Manchester. The Arts and Crafts Movement is explored in visits to important buildings such as William Morris’s Kelmscott Manor, Standen, Rodmarton and Wightwick Manors, with day trips to Oxford and Surry that include visits to houses by Lutyens and Voysey. Tuition of $7,000 includes 15 nights’ hotel accommodation, course materials, entrance fees, breakfast and some lunches. More details at https://victoriansociety.org/london-summer-school/