Events at the Libraries

The Special Collections Department and the School of Architecture hosted a conference titled "The Architecture and Landscapes of Arkansas: A Heritage of Distinction" on March 2, 2007 at the UA Continuing Education Center in downtown Fayetteville.

Richard Longstreth, director of the graduate program in historic preservation at George Washington University, was the keynote speaker at the conference. The conference was capped by an evening banquet and tribute to Cyrus A. Sutherland, former UA architecture professor and a leader in historic preservation. Leslie Belden, historic preservationist and Fayetteville Presbyterian minister, Tommy Jameson, veteran preservation architect in Little Rock, and John Mott, director of the architecture and historic preservation department of John Milner Associate, Inc., of Alexandria, VA all spoke at the banquet in honor of Sutherland.

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