August 20 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed recaps his recent trip to the New Jersey shore with a review of 19th-century American Victorian coastal architecture. Its evolution from European styles and its adaptation to the varied geography of inland forests, coastal salt marshes and barrier islands will be highlighted. We’ll see how the expansion of railroads and the exploitation of local resources provided the catalyst for the explosion in settlement and tourism by 1900.