BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.3//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Webinar only. Celebrating the 147th anniversary of the birth of Frances Glessner Lee!In 1886\, Isaac Scott designed a log cabin playhouse for eight-year-old Fanny Glessner (shown above) at the family&rsquo\;s su mmer estate\, The Rocks\, in New Hampshire. It was complete with child-siz ed furniture and a working stove. It was in the playhouse that Fanny honed her skills at homemaking\, hosting tea parties and making jams and jellie s. The playhouse still stands.The newly published book\, Playhouses and Pr ivilege: The Architecture of Elite Childhood \;by av¸£ÀûÉç Life member Abig ail A. Van Slyck explores children&rsquo\;s playhouses built on British an d American estates between the 1850s and the mid-1930s\, including Fanny&r squo\;s house and the Sears family log cabin\, built in the 1880s on Prair ie Avenue and now located in Kenilworth. Different from the prefabricated buildings that later populated suburban backyards\, these playhouses were often fully functional cottages designed by well-known architects for Brit ish royalty\, American industrialists\, and Hollywood stars. As Van Slyck shows\, these buildings were more than extravagant spaces to cultivate chi ldren&rsquo\;s imaginations and fantasy lives.From Queen Victoria and Prin ce Albert&rsquo\;s Swiss Cottage\, built on their Osborne estate in 1853\, to the children&rsquo\;s cottage constructed on the grounds of Cornelius Vanderbilt&rsquo\;s Newport mansion in 1886\, and from the miniature bunga low commissioned in 1926 for the Dodge Brothers Motor Company heiress to t he corporate-sponsored glass-block playhouse given to Shirley Temple in 19 36\, Van Slyck surveys a variety of playhouses and their milieus to trace the evolution of elite childhood and the broader social practices of wealt h. \;Playhouses and Privilege \;makes clear that\, far from being frivolous\, playhouses were carefully planned architectural manifestations of adult concerns\, integral to the reproduction of class privilege.Abiga il A. Van Slyck is the Dayton Professor Emeritus of Art History at Connect icut College and author of \;A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps a nd the Shaping of American Youth\, 1890&ndash\;1960 \;(Minnesota\, 201 0) and \;Free to All: Carnegie Libraries and American Culture\, 1890&n dash\;1920.This program will be recorded and a link will be sent to all re gistrants. The link will remain live for seven days following the program. Co-sponsored by Forest Society North at The Rocks\, and the Kenilworth His torical Society.$15 per person / $12 for Glessner House membersPurchase Ti ckets DTEND:20250326T010000Z DTSTAMP:20250313T055424Z DTSTART:20250326T000000Z LOCATION:Online event SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Playhouses and Privilege: The Architecture of Elite Childhood UID:RFCALITEM638774420642683779 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Webinar only.

Celebrating t he 147th anniversary of the birth of Frances Glessner Lee!

In 1886\, Isaac Scott designed a log cabin playhouse for eight-year-old Fanny Gless ner (shown above) at the family&rsquo\;s summer estate\, The Rocks\, in Ne w Hampshire. It was complete with child-sized furniture and a working stov e. It was in the playhouse that Fanny honed her skills at homemaking\, hos ting tea parties and making jams and jellies. The playhouse still stands.< /p>

The newly published book\, Playhouses and Privilege: The Archite cture of Elite Childhood \;by av¸£ÀûÉç Life member Abigail A. Van Slyck explores children&rsquo\;s playhouses built on British and American estates between the 1850s and the mid-1930s\, including Fanny &rsquo\;s house and the Sears family log cabin\, built in the 1880s on Pra irie Avenue and now located in Kenilworth. Different from the prefabricate d buildings that later populated suburban backyards\, these playhouses wer e often fully functional cottages designed by well-known architects for Br itish royalty\, American industrialists\, and Hollywood stars. As Van Slyc k shows\, these buildings were more than extravagant spaces to cultivate c hildren&rsquo\;s imaginations and fantasy lives.

From Queen Victoria and Prince Albert&rsquo\;s Swiss Cottage\, built on their Osborne estate in 1853\, to the children&rsquo\;s cottage constructed on the grounds of C ornelius Vanderbilt&rsquo\;s Newport mansion in 1886\, and from the miniat ure bungalow commissioned in 1926 for the Dodge Brothers Motor Company hei ress to the corporate-sponsored glass-block playhouse given to Shirley Tem ple in 1936\, Van Slyck surveys a variety of playhouses and their milieus to trace the evolution of elite childhood and the broader social practices of wealth. \;Playhouses and Privilege \;makes clear that \, far from being frivolous\, playhouses were carefully planned architectu ral manifestations of adult concerns\, integral to the reproduction of cla ss privilege.

Abigail A. Van Slyck is the Dayton Professor Emeritus of Art History at Connecticut College and author of \;A Manufactur ed Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth\, 1890&ndash \;1960 \;(Minnesota\, 2010) and \;Free to All: Carnegie L ibraries and American Culture\, 1890&ndash\;1920.

This program will be recorded and a link will be sent to all registrants. The link will remain live for seven days following the program.

Co-sponsored by F orest Society North at The Rocks\, and the Kenilworth Historical Society.< /p>

$15 per person / $12 for Glessner House members

Purchase Tickets

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