The Golden Age Elegance of Baltimore
at the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion Co-hosted by
The Garrett-Jacobs Mansion Endowment Fund
In association with
Baltimore Heritage, Baltimore Architecture Foundation & AIA Baltimore
Performances begin at 2:00 pm at the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion
Brunches will be served in the elegant Courtyard of the Historic Garrett-Jacobs Mansion.*
October 16: Mosette Broderick: Stanford White in Baltimore: When Architecture Could Fashion a Nation
Ms. Broderick will discuss McKim, Mead & White, whose work created the America we exported as the new nation first stepped onto the center of the world stage. Ms. Broderick is Professor and Director, Urban Design and Archi- tecture Studies at New York University. She is the author of Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America’s Gilded Age.
November 13: Andrew Van Styn: Artisans of the Aesthetic Movement at the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion
Mr. Van Styn will provide an overview of the Aesthetic Movement in America with its antecedents in England and France. Many New York Decorative Arts firms, who were important in this movement, contributed as subcontractors to the Mansion. They will be identified and their broader contributions to the applied arts of the late 19th century will be discussed and illustrated. Mr. Van Styn studied architecture at Cornell University and has collected and studied design of the late 19th century since 1979. He works as a designer and a consultant for collections 1860- 1915. He was the Director of Acquisitions, Conservation and Photography for “The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design”, a traveling museum exhibition currently at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art.
February 12: Jim Garrison: John Russell Pope: Transcendent Classicist
The residential commissions of the Garrett and Jacobs families were crucial to Pope’s career from his first independent commission for Dr. and Mrs. Henry Barton Jacobs in Newport, Rhode Island through “Charlcote” for James Swan Frick in Baltimore. This program will look at Pope’s important houses, their immediate precedents, and how Pope’s clients and work in Baltimore were some of the most significant of his career. Jim Garrison, AIA, is an architect with Frens & Frens, LLC, in West Chester, PA and is the author of Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope.
April 15: Elizabeth De Rosa: Evolution of Tiffany’s Stained Glass at the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion and Beyond
The stunning windows and stained glass dome at the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion were designed just as Tiffany Glass Company incorporated in 1885. In so doing, Tiffany was able to control the production of glass—color, opacity and texture– that he would use in his most famous artwork. Dr. Elizabeth DeRosa teaches at the Smithsonian’s Cooper -Hewitt Program and has curated exhibitions on Tiffany glass in New York and is co-curator of the upcoming exhi- bition, “Louis C. Tiffany, The Art of Devotion.”
Dr. Jacobs is the Jacobs of the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion. The caduceus in the balustrade outside the ballroom is a subtle reminder of him. The lower level bar was once his medical office. 
