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March 6, 2018Lecture to Explore Architecture and History of Robert & Anna Pruyn’s Great Camp Santanoni
On Sunday, March 11 at 2pm Steven Engelhart will be at the Albany Institute of History & Art to give a special lecture about Camp Santanoni, a historic great camp located in Newcomb, New York. Engelhart is the Director of Adirondack Architectural Heritage. This lecture will examine the influence of Japanese architecture on the construction of the camp, the Pruyn family of Albany, and the history of the use of Camp Santanoni. This lecture is open to the public and included with museum admission.
The Albany Institute library collections house the private papers of Robert Hewson Pruyn (1815-1882), the second Minister sent from the United States to Japan. Robert Pruyn and his wife Anna built Camp Santanoni.
More about Adirondack Architectural Heritage: Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) is the nonprofit historic preservation organization for New York State’s Adirondack Park. AARCH was formed in 1990 with a mission to promote better public understanding, appreciation and stewardship of the Adirondacks unique and diverse architectural heritage.
This legacy includes not only the nationally recognized “Great Camps” and other rustic buildings but also the many other structures that embody the whole range of human experience in the region. These other structures include: a wide variety of homes and farmsteads; the churches, commercial buildings, town halls and libraries that make up most Adirondack settlements; bridges, railroad buildings, lighthouses and other transportation related structures; and industrial sites related to the region’s important iron, wood, quarrying and tanning industries.
Upcoming Exhibition: On March 14, 2018, the Albany Institute of History & Art will open a new traveling exhibition called Along the Eastern Road: Hiroshige’s Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (open through June 10, 2018). The exhibition is organized by the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.
