Welcome to our Inaugural Digital Newsletter!
The SAHMDR board has decided to switch from a blog to a periodic digital newsletter to keep in touch with the membership. Note that our website will still be current with such information as conference announcements, calls for papers, and grants announcements. “Like” us on Facebook to get the latest news quickly! See our Facebook link below. We will be soliciting news items from the membership as well, making the newsletter a more interactive way of communicating.

New Student Travel Scholarship
SAHMDR will be giving away four student travel scholarships worth up to $400 to attend our forthcoming conference in Coeur d’Alene-Sandpoint-Wallace, Idaho on June 21-23! It’s easy, just fill out the application and send it in! Awards are made on a first-come, first-serve basis for students enrolled in a historic preservation, architectural history, or related program. See www.sahmdr.org for the application form.

Registration is Now Open!
Registration is open for our June 21-23, 2019 conference in Coeur d’Alene, Sandpoint and Wallace, Idaho! You can register electronically via Eventbrite or fill out the form on the last page of the program and mail in your registration to the address on the form. We are particularly excited about this year’s keynote speakers. Renowned Seattle-area architect Gordon Walker will be our keynote speaker on Saturday night, June 22nd, in Coeur d’Alene. Gordon’s work is the subject of a forthcoming monograph by long-time SAHMDR member and supporter Grant Hildebrand, due out in July from the University of Washington Press. Our keynote speaker for Friday night will be Portland architect William Hawkins III, who will talk about his family’s role in opening up Northern Idaho; specifically about the Chinese and their work for the Northern Pacific Railroad. This is particularly timely, given the recent acknowledgement in Promontory, Utah of the role that the Chinese played in building the first Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed on May 10, 1869. More information on the conference can be found in the program, available on our website at www.sahmdr.org. (Image is Rogers House by Gordon Walker, Lopez Island)

New Endowment for the Young Professionals Travel Grant
We are incredibly grateful to long-time member and treasurer Shirley Courtois for her generous endowment of the new Shirley L. Courtois Young Professionals Travel Grant. Recognizing that those who have recently completed graduate studies are often short on funds, we initiated this grant in 2019. This will give newcomers to the field an opportunity to present their graduate theses and dissertations and other research, from which the membership will greatly benefit. Thank you Shirley!

Call for Papers for SAH 2020 Meeting in Seattle
The Call for Papers is open for the 73rd Annual International Society of Architectural Historians Conference, which will be held in Seattle from April 29th to May 3rd, 2020. Our chapter is sponsoring a session and is actively seeking abstracts. The session is entitled, “Sites Unseen: Other Cultural Landscapes of the Pacific Northwest” and is described as follows:

The built environment of the Pacific Northwest reflects a diversity of traditions, yet the full range of its architecture remains understudied. This session will examine Northwestern cultural landscapes that lie outside of the dominant culture, such as those of Indigenous peoples, African Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, women, LGBTQAA+, European ethnic groups, religious sects and other specific populations. Papers might examine physical structures these groups designed on their own, their reuse of existing buildings for their own purposes, or spaces they occupied intentionally or involuntarily (including agricultural landscapes, internment camps, and reservations).

Board members J. Phillip Gruen, Washington State University, and James Buckley, University of Oregon, are organizing and chairing the session. Abstracts are due June 5th! See https://www.sah.org/2020/call-for-papers#25 for more details.

Two Elisabeth Walton Potter Research Grants Awarded

Two recipients will be awarded the EWP Research Award this year. An announcement of the recipients will be forthcoming at our 2019 conference. Stay tuned!

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May 20, 2019