Places in the Sun: 1950s Resorts and Their Architecture

Code: SL51782

Dates: May 2, 2025

Meets: 12 N to 2:00 PM

Sessions: 1

Course Fee: $49.00

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Briefly examine old guard resorts in New England and then focus on the wide development of new retreats in Florida, the Caribbean, Hawaii and ski resorts in Vermont and the West.  Fast planes and new wealth ushered in the era of the jet-set. Featured places include Cuba, Jamaica, Antigua, the Bahamas, Sun Valley, Idaho and Stowe, Vermont.
Fee: $49.00
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Jeff Groff

Jeff Groff recently retired as Estate Historian at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. He also served as Director of Public Programs and Director of Interpretation. For sixteen years he was Executive Director of Wyck Historic House and Garden in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. He holds an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture of the University of Delaware. For over forty years he has studied and lectured on American country houses and gardens, particularly those of Philadelphia’s “Main Line” and surrounding areas, with an emphasis on country life and sports, and gentleman farming. He served as co-curator of Winterthur’s very successful exhibitions “Costumes of Downton Abbey” and “Costuming The Crown."

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