Exclusive Opportunity To Explore
Richmond’s Architectural History
With Edwin Slipek!

Edwin Slipek will host a once-a-week architecture class for 5 weeks focusing on Richmond’s historic buildings and landscapes in the context of its socio-economic and cultural development from the 18th century through the 21st century. Please note the class is limited to 18 seats!

Who | Edwin Slipek and Historic Richmond
Where | Historic Richmond Headquarters at 4 East Main Street 1C
When | Every Tuesday in October 2023: Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31st,  6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Cost | $150

Full Class Description:
This new five-week illustrated course of Richmond’s architectural history, taught by architectural historian and columnist Edwin Slipek, focuses on Richmond’s historic buildings and landscapes in the context of their socio-economic and cultural development from the 18th through the 21st centuries. It will provide an introduction to Richmond’s structures and neighborhoods, and how they were shaped by Richmond’s topography and man-made infrastructure - from waterways to hilltops, to railroads, streetcars and automobiles. In this course Professor Slipek will address not only who built what - but also where and, most importantly, why – to offer perspectives on the forces that influenced Richmond’s architecture, whether economic, commercial, political, social, religious or environmental.

The first session will focus on the region’s 18th century development and how it was shaped by “the Waterways: The James River, Shockoe Creek, and the James River and Kanawha Canal.” The second session focuses on Richmond’s development on “the Hilltops: Church Hill, Shockoe Hill, Gambles Hill, Oregon Hill and Union Hill” in the early Federal and ante-bellum periods of the late 18th and first half of the 19th century. The third session will focus on “Railroads” and their impact on the development in our community in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The fourth session will examine the impact of “Electric Streetcars” in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The final class will focus on “Automobiles” and their effect on 20th and 21st century development here.

Please join us for a fresh look at our historic built environment by way of hills and valleys, riverfront and canals, rails and roads!

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