Salve Regina University

Annual Conference on Cultural and Historic Preservation

Salve Regina's annual Conference on Cultural and Historic Preservation explores themes relevant to the history of Newport and its environs. Each fall, the three-day conference brings together top preservation experts and academics from across the country to lead a series of lectures, workshops and tours.

Past conferences:

• "The Art, Architecture and Literature of the Gilded Age" (2009)
• "Creating and Preserving the American Home" (2008)
• "Leisure, Tourism and the 19th-Century Resort" (2007)
• "Ritual Spaces and Places: Memory and Commemoration in 19th Century America" (2006)
• "The Gilded Age: Domesticity and Design in the Home" (2005)
• "The Interior Decorator in America From Amateur to Professional, 1850-1970" (2004)
• "Recreating the Past: The Colonial Revival in America" (2003)
• "From Shingles to Columns: McKim, Mead and White and the Transformation of America" (2002)
• "The Arts and Crafts Movement: New Perspectives" (2001)
• "Newport’s Age of Innocence: Architecture, Art, Design 1840-1880" (2000)
• "Artistic Country-Seats, the Aesthetic Movement and Newport, 1860-1890" (1999)
• "Newport and the Art of Gardens and Landscape" (1998)
• "From Chalet to Chateau" (1997)