Session 10: Connecticut Trailblazers: Carrying the Legacy

Hotel Marcel

500 Sargent Dr
New Haven, CT

Speakers

Robert T. Coolidge

Christopher Wigren

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Session 10: Connecticut Trailblazers: Carrying the Legacy

Kevin Roche with a model in an undated photo. Credit: Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates

Connecticut Trailblazers: Carrying the Legacy

 

As the nation’s third smallest state by area, Connecticut is home to a vast number of significant modern buildings and homes. Likewise, the number of important people who called Connecticut home is nearly endless. In this session, speakers will talk about one couple, one Pritzker Prize winner and a preservation trailblazer and discuss what it looks like to carry on their legacy.

Speakers & Abstracts:
  • Robert and Jean Coolidge: Rediscovering New Haven's Forgotten Early Modernists 
    Robert T. Coolidge II, AIA LEED AP, is the son of Robert and Jean Coolidge, and an architect with his own private practice in Branford Connecticut.
  • The Life and Work of Elizabeth Mills Brown
    Christopher Wigren, Deputy Director of Preservation Connecticut
  • Engagements and Interventions on behalf of a legacy
    Eamon Roche, bio coming soon. 
Moderator:
Location:

Hotel Marcel, 500 Sargent Dr, New Haven, CT, 06511

 

Moderator

Speakers

Christopher Wigren

Christopher Wigren is Deputy Director of Preservation Connecticut, where his responsibilities include editing the newsletter, Preservation Connecticut News, and managing preservation easements and awards programs. He is the author of Connecticut Architecture: Stories of 100 Places (Wesleyan University Press, 2018) and serves on the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Review Board and the Merritt Parkway Advisory Committee. Most recently, he coordinated a project with the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office to document the heritage and works of the Olmsted landscape architecture firm in Connecticut.

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