Tom Tom Community Partner Event - Gothic Revival: Talk and Tour of the Woolen Mills Chapel

Join us at the historic Woolen Mills Chapel for a panel presentation celebrating its vibrant past and envisioning its future, presented in partnership with the Tom Tom Community Partner Program. Delve into the chapel's design, hear stories from the Woolen Mills community, then learn about the crucial work of preserving this 140-year-old community cornerstone. This special event kicks off with a panel discussion, followed by an open house and social hour where you can explore the chapel, get to know Preservation Piedmont, and connect with your neighbors. Get in on the ground floor of the efforts to revitalize this beloved gathering place and imagine its potential as a renewed community space.

 

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Speakers:

Jody Lahendro

Preservation Piedmont Preservation Architect

Jody Lahendro, FAIA, served as Historic Preservation Architect at the University of Virginia, managing preservation projects in the Academical Village, the President’s House at Carr’s Hill, and the Rotunda. Since retiring in 2021, Lahendro provides preservation services and pro-bono consulting to small nonprofits and those with historic African American buildings.

Genevieve Keller

Preservation Piedmont President Charlottesville, VA

📷https://preservation-piedmont.org/

Genevieve Keller is a nationally known leader in historic preservation and cultural landscape practice and theory. Passionate about the relationship between people and place, Genevieve engages in public, private and academic practice combining a realistic assessment of political sensibilities with a firm belief in the power of visioning for inclusive, adaptive, and resilient historic places. Working with World Heritage Sites, National Parks, National Historic Landmarks, and National Register districts throughout the United States, Genevieve, along with J. Timothy Keller, FASLA, is co-founder of Land and Community Associates, an award-winning firm grounded in the collaborative and cross-disciplinary planning and landscape preservation initiatives that led to increased awareness and protection of significant landscapes in the United States. Her contributions in publication, most notably the internationally and nationally cited How To Evaluate and Nominate Designed Historic Landscapes and How To Evaluate and Nominate Rural Historic Landscapes, as well as contributions to Robert Stipe’s classic work on historic preservation A Richer Heritage and the National Trust’s book on rural conservation—Saving America’s Countryside—provide guidance to diverse individuals and groups involved in and advocating for landscape preservation, distinct communities, and historic places. Genevieve graduated from Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia with honors in Latin American Studies, earned a Master of Architectural History from the University of Virginia School of Architecture, was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and undertook post-graduate studies in landscape architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art and University of Edinburgh. Genevieve served as Affiliate Associate Professor in the College of Design at Iowa State University from 1995 to 2015 where she co-directed outreach projects. She has taught landscape preservation courses at the University of Mary Washington, and as Visiting Professor in Architectural History at the University of Virginia School of Architecture taught courses in Community History and Historic Preservation Theory and Practice, and she coordinated the School of Architecture’s community-focused Vortex events in 2015 and 2016.

Richard Guy Wilson

Preservation Piedmont Professor Emeritus, Architectural History UVA

📷https://arch.virginia.edu/people/richard-guy-wilson

Professor Emeritus Richard Guy Wilson’s specialty is scholarship involving the architecture, design and art of the 18th to the 21st centuries in America and abroad. Wilson serves on the board of Preservation Piedmont.

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