Alameda Museum Lectures 2001-2010
Here are the prominent Bay Area authors and historians who have taken part in our series over the past ten years. The list is alphabetical by their last names. Many lectures are sponsored by local businesses and professionals. We have standing room only for most lectures; people respond to our excellent publicity and come from other locales, visiting nearby restaurants and shops and thereby bringing commerce to our historic downtown.
Bruce Bradbury, founder of Bradbury & Bradbury Wallpapers
in Benicia and global pundit, will plunder B & B’s exhaustive
research and archival collection for slides of turn of the 20th
century interiors.
Under” by Bruce Bradbury, founder of Bradbury &
Bradbury Art Wallpapers in Benicia, California and a renowned rake
and raconteur.
Alex Brammer, who spent ten years feeding his obsession with
the fabulous residences of the railroad barons and silver bonanza
kings atop San Francisco’s Nob Hill.
the Secrets of the Palace” by Gray Brechin, Ph.D.
author of Farewell Promised Land: Waking From the California
Dream and Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin,
published by the University of California Press.
Gray Brechin’s slide exposé about the impact of the
Hearsts and other powerful Bay Area families on the environment of
California.
by historian Gray Brechin, author of New Deal
California, U.C Berkeley Press.
Excavating the Buried Civilization of the Great Depression,”
by author-historian Gray Brechin
Tales of the Alameda Architectural Preservation Society,”
presented by Christopher Buckley and Company.
Polychroming” by expert color consultant Bob Buckter,
(aka Dr. Color), whose glorious slides are the result of his two
decades of transforming buildings all over California.
by Mr. Art Deco himself, Michael Crowe, author of Deco
by the Bay: Art Deco Architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area.
by Paul Duchscherer, returns to his true love with slides
from his new volume from Penguin Books.
Bungalow.”
California Interiors” by architect and historian Hank
Dunlop, whose slide show on Fernside wowed audiences during our
2003 lecture series.
Dunlop, “The Restoration of the Leland Stanford Mansion,” the
centerpiece of a fabled state park in Sacramento.
by architect and historian Hank Dunlop.
Now” based on a new book of photographs compiled by writer
Dennis Evanosky, and Eric Kos of the Alameda Sun.
Treasure Chest,” a look at the Island City’s domestic
architecture from the Gothic Revival to the Bungalow, presented by
Dennis Evanosky and Eric Kos.
Street” presented by Dennis Evanosky and Eric Kos,
coauthors of San Francisco in Photographs and East Bay
Then and Now.
Building with Nature: Inspiration for the
Arts & Crafts Home, published by Gibb Smith.
architectural historians from Page & Turnbull, will make a
PowerPoint presentation about the former Naval Air Station, “Alameda
Point: History in Action.”
Exciting Future.” Historian Melisa Gaudreau, with Page &
Turnbull architects, will discuss the heritage of this official
Alameda Landmark. SOM architects will detail its new prospects.
presented by architect and author Arrol Gellner, who will
discuss the captivating architectural styes of the 1920s, with a
digression to Stonehenge and Stoneleigh, “a unique tract of
Storybook homes in Alameda,” designed by architect Walter W. Dixon
for developer Christopher Columbus Howard.
by architect Arrol Gellner, who will present juicy slides
taken by photographer Douglas Keister, who illustrated this new book
from Viking.
cobwebbed images that have never seen the light of day as he
presents “The Museum Archives Revealed.”
Color, Texture, and Form” by architectural historian Bill
Kostura. In Alameda, their plans won the competition for City
Hall. The Sharon Playhouse in Golden Gate Park, the Bourne Wine
Cellar in St. Helena, early office skyscrapers, and imposing
mausoleums are among their other works that will be discussed.
local author Richard Knight with images from Saarinen’s
Quest, his new book for William Stout Publishers. Eero Saarinen
was the architect for the St. Louis Arch and other visionary
projects.
by Betty Marvin, an Oakland Heritage Alliance member who
has made an intense study of Smith and his work.
California’s First Female Architect,” by architectural
historian Betty Marvin, who will assume the dress and persona
of Miss Morgan during her lecture, which will feature her dozen or
so structures in Alameda.
Oakland Point and the West Oakland Marsh,” by architectural
historian Betty Marvin.
Windows from the Victoria Era to the Time of Arts & Crafts,”
Alameda glass artist Ken Matthias’ glorious slides are a
result of his ongoing meticulous survey of decorative glass on the
island. Ken will be introduced by a holographic image of glassmaster
Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Alameda glassmaster Ken Matthias, who continues his
house-by-house survey of all the decorative glass on the Island.
Come and be stunned!
glorious images of windows throughout the Island. ending with the
stunning “Top Ten,” by Glass master Ken Matthias.
in Alameda Architecture: From the Bungalow to the Rancher” by
Woody Minor.
revelation of the masonry heritage of the island of Alameda,
presented by Woody Minor, author of Pacific Gateway, On
The Bay and many more.
Residential Architecture in Alameda,” by Woody Minor.
Our local hero will use two projectors to take you on a breathtaking
cavalcade of Alameda history and houses.
the Island,” by raconteur, author, and local historian Woody
Minor. This slide show will include book signing of the new
edition of Woody’s book “Taking Care of Business.”
Woody Minor on “The Architecture of Ratcliff,” his
new book about a century of East Bay building.
by local author and historian Woody Minor.
local author and historian Woody Minor, based on his new book about
Victorian era development.
by David Nicolai, curator of the Pardee Home in Oakland.
David will dress in character and present George Cooper Pardee’s
“first person” account of his regime as University of California
drum major, Oakland Mayor (1893-95), and California Governor
(1903-07)
Pattiani,” an exploration of the work of renowned Alameda
builder Alfred Washington Pattiani, presented by Paul Roberts,
former Alameda Victorian Preservation Society (now AAPS) President.
by Paul Roberts, who will show an expanded version of his
“Passion for Pattiani” presentation in conjunction with his new
book about that prolific Alameda architect.
returns with an investigation into the work of the Newsom Brothers,
prominent Bay Area architects who designed the magnificent Carson
Mansion in Eureka.
illustrated talk by Paul Roberts based on two recently discovered
vintage photo albums from the 1890s.
Richard Rutter “History of the Alameda Naval Air Station.”
Richard Schwartz, author of Berkeley 1900, “the
first book to approach a true history of day-to-day life at the turn
of the century,” according to Stephanie Manning of the Berkeley
Architectural Heritage Association.
Schwartz, author, Earthquake Exodus 1906, published
by RSB Books.
Cutthroats of Old Berkeley,” another magical tome about
“Berserkeley” by Richard Schwartz, a perennial Museum lecture
circuit favorite.
and Trolleys: How Transportation Shaped Alameda” by Western
Railroad Museum trolley operator Bruce Singer, and Alameda
ferry buff and photo archivist Grant Ute.
rails for part two of their transportation extravaganza: “Ride
the Alameda Red Cars” a tour of the Encinal and Lincoln lines
of the Southern Pacific’s Alameda Electric Service.
transportation buff and author Grant Ute shows how people
came from all over, by ferry, train, cable car, and trolley, to see
the wonders of the Panama Pacific International Exposition, AKA the
1915 World’s Fair.