Victorian Week-.

Workshop Set On Restoration

CAPE MAY - How-to hints and practical advice for the owner of a Victorian house will be the topic of a four-day workshop Oct. 8-11 sponsored by the MidAtlantic Center for the Arts as part of the festive Victorian Week celebration to run Friday through Oct. 14. Along with tours of the National Landmark Victorian City, antiques shows, house tours, and other frivolities, a

specialized workshop will be held using the treasure of Victorian homes in Cape May as a focus. OWNERS AND lovers of Victorian homes were invited to register for the workshop, called "Restoring Your Victorian House. A how-to workshop for the 1820-1920 house." which is being co-sponst&ed by the Old-House Journal, a newsletter of restoration and maintenance techniques for the antique house, and Preservation New Jersey, the statewide membership group interested in preserving NewJersey's architecture. "Restoring Your Vic- » torian House" workshop will feature several nationally noted experts on Victorian interiors and ex- ». teriors: Roger Moss, author of Century of Color: Exterior Decoration for American Buildings 1820-1920, who will speak on paint colors for Victorian homes and historic lighting devices; Gail Caksey Winkler, AS ID, who is completing a book for Viking Press entitled Victorian Interior Decoration which will be published in 1985, will speak on Victorian wallcoverings, floorcoverings, window treatments, and furniture and its upholstery. HUGH McCAULEY, an architect who has designed several buildings to fit in the Victorian city of Cape May, including the fire station museum, and who led the HABS team which * surveyed Cape May for the National Landmark designation, will speak on the practical matters of Victorian building parts and styles, and on how to proceed with restoration, from dealing with contractors to planning the expenses and projects. Ed Shull, landscape architect who has restored the Victorian garden at the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown House museum in Denver, will give advice on how to plant and maintain a Victorian garden, as well as what sort of garden "furniture" and fencing would be appropriate. James T. Harveson, executive director of Preservation New Jersey, will speak on the role the private preservation organization can plan in assisting the homeowner in restoring a Victorian house, while F. Robert Perry, State Historic Preservation Officer 1for . New Jersey, will discuss the public avenues of assistance available, from tax credits to state and national register nominations. WORKSHOP participants will be treated to a special lecture by John Burrows, architectural historian and designer for Bradbury and Bradbury Art Wallpapers of Benicia, ; Calif., who will kick off the

, \ workshop with a talk on Victorian Revival Interiors. # Victorian Revival is fast becoming one of the most popular contemporary American styles, and Burrows, who has spent the past decade documenting American Victorian architecture, will provide glimpses into some of

America's finest surviving Victorian^hiteriors and feature an overview of the most exciting Victorian Revival home interiors. Also featured during the "Restoring Your Victorian House; Wori«nop" will be a gala Reception hosted by several of the restored Victorian guest houses of Cape May, so that participants f

I may have an opportunity to 1 view first-hand the in- : teriors of these well-known i Victorian homes which now welcome guests. ■ For a complete schedule i of the workshop as well as i for information on Victorian Week activities, contact the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts, 884-5404.

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