Gallery: FSU historian and graduate students travel to annual architecture conference to study historic cultural landscapes

08/01/25
Aidan MacKinlay, Hope Evans, Kathleen Powers Conti, Gabrille Camp, MiKayla Cole and Adam Beauchamp at the VAF Awards Banquet. Courtesy Photo.
Conti discusses the intricate stone masonry work at the historic Poplar Hall outside of Newark, Delaware with her students Beauchamp, Camp, Cole, Evans and MacKinlay. Courtesy Photo.
Camp, Evans, and MacKinlay examine an outbuilding at Poplar Hall, Delaware, as part of site visits related to the Vernacular Architecture Forum annual conference in May 2025. Courtesy Photo.
Camp and MacKinlay examine a gravestone by knocking on it to determine its material in Wilmington, Delaware, as a part of their site visits during the conference. Zinc gravestones became widely popular during this period due to salesmen traveling the country via railroad. Courtesy Photo.
MacKinlay exits the cellar of the Appoquinimink Quaker Meetinghouse, Delaware, as part of site visits related to the Vernacular Architecture Forum annual conference in May 2025. Courtesy Photo.
The FSU Ambassador’s Group at the historic Poplar Hall outside of Newark, Delaware. Courtesy Photo.
Camp, Cole, Evans, and MacKinlay look through a window in a historic wooden barn at Poplar Hall outside of Newark, Delaware. Photo by Conti.
Evans and MacKinlay examine a historic gravestone at the Old Swedes Church, built in 1698, in Wilmington, Delaware. This church is one of the US’s oldest church buildings that is still in regular use as a church. Photo by Conti.
Cole looks through a clay pipe in a stone wall at the gunpowder mill at the Hagley Museum, as part of site visits related to the Vernacular Architecture Forum annual conference in May 2025. Courtesy Photo.