Kathryn Holliday

"Understanding what this place offers is deepened by learning how it came to be."

Student work expands the scope of Krannert Art Museum's magnificent exhibit - Those of us who call Urbana-Champaign home know it’s not quite like any other place. There’s a certain spirit in the air—faint strains of music echoing across streets that connect our two cities. It’s...

Our local arts & culture mag wrote a super nice piece on my students' work documenting neighborhood histories in postwar Champaign-Urbana (thank you!) - very proud of the student work and look forward to adding to this project with future classes
www.smilepolitely.com/culture/stud...

Photograph of a three-story warehouse building with Gothic revival details on the second and third stories, and cast iron columns with wide doors between them on the ground floor

Historic Preservation job in my hometown - the Preservation Resource Center is in such a lovely Gothic Revival warehouse by the GNO bridge. Great opportunity to help make preservation work in New Orleans!

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Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth In February 2025, under the orders of the Trump administration, the National Park Service (NPS) removed the words “Transgender” and “Queer” from the…

New from me in Mas Context: In February NPS removed Transgender and Queer from the Stonewall National Monument website. NPS also removed LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History—the 1st federal account of the LGBTQ community.

This point is not made enough. The US has an embarrassment of riches of great colleges and universities. There are strong institutions in every state. It’s as if those places don’t count.

✨ Job posting: ✨Visiting Assistant Director of the Humanities Without Walls program at the HRI, U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign✨ illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Everyone deserves dignity and equality regardless of who they are or who they love.

On International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, know that Illinois stands with our LGBTQ+ community.

Hate has no home here in the Land of Lincoln.

This cat *loves* having his picture taken in this window 😻

Black and white architectural drawing including plans of site and interior of a Spanish-Colonial revival style house.

My book's pub day is next week, so sharing bits! In 1925, Paul R. Williams, the 1st Black registered architect in California, designed this house for a competition held by a Santa Barbara-based org. The design was inspired by Mexican buildings, but white architects tried to minimize those influences

Ah! I have a couple of maps that may help you. I'll look and send your way.

The AT&T authored multivolume History of Science and Engineering in the Bell System offers some details, but please feel free to dm me if there is something specific you are looking for!

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Text overlay reads: Society for Architectural Historians 79th Annual International Conference. CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline June 5. Mexico City 2026 | April 15-19.

The Society of Architectural Historians welcomes paper submissions for its 79th Annual International Conference in Mexico City April 15-19, 2026.

50+ sessions target diverse topics across the length and breadth of history. Submit by June 5, 2025.
www.sah.org/docs/default...

May I recommend my book if you want fires, oil spills, eugenics, earthquakes, mudslides, unfriendly neighbors, the mores of the wealthy, beautiful beaches and mountains, and a reference to HBO’s Succession AND the Duchess of Sussex in one tidy package on sale? press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

An astoundingly bad read of the suburbs of DFW, school districts, etc

From The Clay Studio in Philadelphia (and I’m part of the team 😎): “How do we observe the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States in 2026? How has the Declaration of Independence been commemorated or criticized in the past?” (1/2)

A wall phone that is green and in the shape of Ireland.

Ireland phone. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

#StPatricksDay

2025 SHOT Annual Meeting Luxembourg Visit the post for more.

SHOT 2025 Open sessions

Individuals and groups interested in finding others to join an organized session can submit an open session proposal to be posted on the open sessions list below. The list will be updated daily until March 23th, 2025.
www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...

If you think they will not notice you consider the words listed below. They include or describe work across disciplines, practices, and world views. Stand up now

Page spread from The Elements of Construction showing Ricker's diagrams for foundations

Congrats to author and editor Marci Uihlein, the contributors and the team at @illinoispress.bsky.social for bringing Ricker's text and diagrams to a new audience with new context

Photograph of a book cover for The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the University of Illinois, shown in front of the main entrance to the Architecture Building and Ricker Library on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus

Spotted in the wild! Terrific new book on architect, engineer & teacher Nathan Ricker, founder of the first public university program in architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1873. The architects of 19th c. Chicago were shaped by his rigorous teaching - a great new resource!

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Dot and John Replinger Home and Studios

For more on the Replinger House(s) see the exhibition webpage, where you can see full scans of Dot's sketchbooks, a plan set for their artists' house, and more
kam.illinois.edu/dot-and-john...

Detail from a page from McCall's Magazine showing a bedroom for three boys with three beds with yellow mattresses, a three-part cabinet with red, yellow, and blue drawer faces, and a full wall graphic showing a map of the United States outlined in blue

Page spread from McCall's Magazine for an article titled "How do you fit three boys into one room"

The 1953 Replinger "Economy House" was also featured in McCall's Magazine in 1957 when Dot won a competition to redesign a bedroom for 3 boys (this cabinet is awesome). Better Homes & Gardens photographed the home as well.

Photograph of a newspaper article from the Champaign News-Gazette showing the Economy House designed by architect John Replinger in 1953

Photograph of the exhibition installation for the 1953 Replinger House, showing an architecture plan and other print media

The Replinger House was designed in the 90s with studio space for Dot and John. It replaced an earlier MCM home John designed for their family in 1953. He worked with the university's "Small Homes Council" & this article championed the '53 "Economy House" as a solution to housing in Champaign

A photograph of an installation showing a large hand-woven tapestry with jewel tones of orange, red, purple, blue, olive, and brown hanging on a white-painted wall adjacent to a vitrine showing an artist's sketchbook

Another home from the Making Place for the Arts exhibition - the Dot and John Replinger House & Studios, designed by John (architect) for him and his wife Dorothy, a fiber artist and weaver whose work should be (much!) better known. The work here is "Sainte Chapelle" made for the home's entry hall

Margaret Erlanger House

There is much more to say about the house - see the exhibition webpage for oral histories with Margaret's colleagues in the dance department, a video walk-through, and a partial drawing set by architect and Illinois architecture professor Jack Baker.
kam.illinois.edu/margaret-erl...

Photograph of the front face of a house showing a two story brick wall with no windows, a yard of river stones, and a small cedar tree

Photograph of the rear facade of a house showing a double height glass window and door at center with red brick corner piers and a pebbled concrete patio

From the exterior, the Margaret Erlanger house presents a blank brick wall (Chicago common brick) to the street, preserving her sense of privacy and security as a single woman living alone. From the rear it opens to a private patio backyard.

Photograph in black and white showing two dancers in leotards in simple dance positions, posing inside a modern home, in front of a suspended fire hood and double height loft

From our exhibition, Making Place for the Arts at Home, the first of 4 houses: the Margaret Erlanger House designed for the professor who established the Department of Dance at Illinois (architect Jack Baker, 1964). A radically simple design, double-height living room + space for dance, music, art

📢 Big news: UT's Architecture & Planning Library has been renamed to honor John S. Chase, Texas’ 1st Black licensed architect & 1st Black graduate of UT’s School of Architecture. Celebrate a legacy of breaking barriers & building community. 🏛️

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Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture | Krannert Art Museum

Our exhibition is open! Highlighting 4 houses that facilitate performance, designed by architecture faculty for colleagues & themselves. Over the next few days I'll share about the houses, for now here's the exhibition webpage with much supporting archival material
kam.illinois.edu/exhibition/m...