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T h o u g h t s ���on other people’s houses ���
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Contemporary���Art happenings���
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Franklin Vagnone���Executive Director of The Historic House Trust of New York City���
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F r a n k l i n D. V a g n o n e Executive Director of The Historic House Trust of New York City
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Struggling Museum Now Allowing Patrons To Touch Pain7ngs
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Mount Vernon Estate Virginia Built – 1757 to 1799 Began life as a house museum - 1858
Monticello Virginia Built – 1770- 1826 Began life as a house museum - 1923
Villa Savoye Poissy, France Built – 1928 - 1931 Began life as a house museum - 1997
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Van Cortlandt House New York Built – 1748 Began life as a house museum - 1897
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Olana Historic Site New York Built – 1870 to 1891 Began life as a house museum - 1966
Gamble House California Built – 1909 Began life as a house museum - 1966
Fallingwater Pennsylvania Built – 1937 Began life as a house museum - 1964
Eames House California Built – 1949 Began life as a house museum - 2006
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Landscapes as se;ngs for contemporary concepts
Architecture as contemporary innovator
Interiors as site-‐specific installa7ons
Interiors as se;ngs for contemporary life
Transcend the object-‐ness of an historic site and seek instead its essence
“the value of a house is the dwelling within it”
Diagram of fluid historic house management. ( Franklin Vagnone)
Traditional Artifact-based Placement within context Cerebral
Contemporary Experience-based
Immersive recombination Tactile
Rules of Civility Virginia Maksymowicz
2007 Powel House Museum
PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS, 2007
Anywhere but Now 2015
Wilton Historic House Museum, Richmond, VI National Society of the Colonial Dames, Think-tank with Chipstone Foundation
Karen Kilimnik 2007
Powel House Museum PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS, 2007
Various Contemporary installations 2006-2015
Merchants House Museum, NYC
The Machine Project, installation and performances 2014
Gamble House, Pasadena, CA Friends of the Gamble House, MAK, AXS Curiosity Festival
Touch History Kathleen Granados
2014-2015 Morris Jumel Mansion
Historic House Trust of New York City & Morris Jumel Mansion
Part of Fiber Philadelphia, 2008 International Fiber Biennial
Marie H. Elcin, Water, Water, Everywhere, Physick House Museum Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, Keeping it Under Wraps, Phuong X. Pham, Stasis, Extended, Powel House
Curated by Robert Wuilfe PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS
Unpacked Peter Hoffmeister
2014 Morris Jumel Mansion
Historic House Trust of New York City & Morris Jumel Mansion
Between Worlds Candy Depew:
2006 Physick House Museum Curated by Robert Wuilfe
PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS
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The past unravels 2012
Merchants House House, New Jersey Jersey Heritage
La Declaración Roxana Perez-Mendez
2007 Powel House Museum
Curated by Robert Wuilfe PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS
Philagrafika presents Megawords Powel House Museum
September, 2006 Curated by Robert Wuilfe
PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS
Fred Wilson: Mining the museums Yinka Shonibare: Brooklyn Museum Period Rooms
Richard Saja: Historically Incorrect
Party Time Yinka Shonibare
2009 The Ballantine Historic House of the Newark Museum
He named her Amber 2008-2009
The Grange Historic House Museum, Ontario, Canada Art Gallery of Ontario, The Grange Historic House
“From 1837 to 1841 Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed
shared this bed, not by necessity, but by choice.”
The Lincoln Bedroom 2013
Skylar Fein C24 Gallery, NYC
Playing Telephone With Ghosts Caitlin Emma Perkins
Various locations throughout 2007 Curated by Robert Wuilfe
PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS
LOOK PIMA Dance Group
2007 The Powel House, Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks
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The Loves of Aaron Burr: Contemporary art exhibition & CORSETED an immersive theater experience
Percentage changes as compared to same period previous year 420 rsvp to the opening event (compared to 75 average)
increase of %560 House attendance increased 30%
Gift shop + Attendance revenue increased 60%
CORSETED Immersive theater event, Morris Jumel Mansion, 2012, Carol Ward Exec. Director
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE: A TRUE ACCOUNT IN NINE PARTS
David Gatten Powel House Museum
November 2006 PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS
Anarchist Guide to Historic House Museum Media artist projects 2011-2014
MET Period Rooms, Rosedale Historic House Museums, NC University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Anarchist Guide to Historic House Museum Media artist projects 2011-2014
Rosedale Historic House Museums, NC University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Powel House Ballroom 2009
Powel House, Philadelphia The Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks
Art- this- House 2015
Historic Richmond Town, Staten Island New York Historic House Trust of New York City & Staten Island Historical Society (HRT)
Site-specific installation at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum 2009
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, NYC Dyckman Farmhouse Alliance
Lewis H. Latimer House LatimerNOW project 2015
Latimer House Museum Historic House Trust of New York City
Menokin Historic House Site 2015
Menokin, VI.
OPEN HOUSE: Matthew Mazzotta; Community Art Project: Daniel Eller 2013-2014
Coleman Center for the Arts (York, AL)
Writing on it all 2015
Lewis H. Latimer House Historic House Trust of New York City , Queens College, and Writing on it All
“If I ran the house museum” 2012-2015
Various historic house museums Historic House Trust of New York City
Anarchist Guide to Historic House Museum Community artist MOBILE KIOSK MET period rooms; Lewis H. Latimer LatimerNOW project
2011-2014 Historic House Trust of New York City
2009, THE ETHICS OF DUST.
In a two-week performance, Preservationist , Otero-Pailos and his team of architectural conservators scientifically transferred the pollution onto latex casts.
Gaasbeek Castle, Brussels Dennis Severs’ House, London
Mikhail Bulgakov House, Kiev
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Preliminary results for site-specific art happenings
Percent change as compared to same period previous year 420 rsvp to the opening event (compared to 75 average) increase of %560 House attendance increased 30% Gift shop + attendance revenue increased 60%
CORSETED Immersive theater event, Morris Jumel Mansion, 2012, Carol Ward Exec. Director
Landmarks Contemporary Projects Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks Powel House, Physick House 2006-2008
Percent change as compared to same period previous year Karen Klimnik Exhibit (Powel House – Philadelphia) House attendance increased 210% Gift shop + Attendance revenue increased 268%
Neon light Merchants House Museum 2006, Pi Grdiner Exec. Director
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TwistedPRESERVATION.wordpress.com (blog) @franklinvagnone (twitter)
The Anarchist Guide to Historic House Museums Thoughts on Other People’s Houses
Deborah E. Ryan and Franklin D. Vagnone
Left Coast Publishers, Fall 2015
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