Monday, October 28, 2024

Centre County Historical Society hosting Numerous Events during the Fall

– by Guest Writers

If you are interested in making State College an easier place to drive through, or if you want some more information about the architecture in the Centre County region, or if you simply need some gift ideas for the holiday season, the Centre County Historical Society has multiple events that you can enjoy!

Rethinking 322

7:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 30
Presentation by Ian Lockwood, Toole Design Group
Wyndham Garden, State College, 310 Elks Club Rd, Boalsburg, PA

Join Ian Lockwood, noted civil engineer and transportation visionary from Toole Design, for an evening dedicated to Rethinking 322. Ian will be joined by Toole's Alex McKeag, urban planner, and Cindy Zerger, landscape architect, to share ideas and examples from transportation projects they've worked on with the Department of Transportation across the United States. Come and learn how features from these extraordinary projects can help Rethink the State College Area Connector project within our unique landscape in Penns-Brush Valley Rural Historic District.

About Toole Design:
Toole Design was founded over twenty years ago with a simple mission: to support innovative streets and dynamic communities where people of all ages and abilities can enjoy walking, biking, and access to transit.

Make sure you RSVP.

Encyclopedia Live presentation by Laurin Goad Davis

Sunday, November 10, 2:00 p.m.
Centre Furnace Mansion, 1001 E. College Ave., State College

Laurin Goad Davis is an architectural historian working in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library at Penn State. She's written on school facilities and women in architecture. In her current role, she creates metadata for the Central Pennsylvania Architecture and Landscape Architecture Digital Collection and works on other local architecture projects for the libraries.

Her illustrated talk will focus on Philip Hallock's efforts to bring modern design elements to Centre County. Discussion will include his houses as well as commercial buildings. The talk will also touch on his early training and later efforts to introduce students to Modernism and international trends.

Make sure you RSVP.