This year's annual Historic Apalachicola Home & Garden Tour is preceded by an all-day Symposium coordinated to embrace the event's 2012 theme, "A Passion for Preservation." The Symposium, facilitated by nationally-recognized preservationists, architects and historians, offers a guided tour of Apalachicola's renovations. Historic education is sure to abound through venue lectures, panel discussions and informational story-telling.

The Symposium's Agenda is provided below. Tickets are sold separately from the Home & Garden Tour tickets, and cost $75.00/each. Participation is limited, so act now and purchase your tickets from the "Purchase Tickets" option in the left Menu, or by clicking here.

 

Symposium Opening, offered the preceding evening, Thursday, May 3, 2012

Symposium Opening Cocktail Party
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: Apalachicola's Cotton Warehouse

Symposium, beginning Friday morning, May 4, 2012 

Symposium Breakfast
8:00am to 8:30am
Location: Trinity Episcopal Church Rectory

Lecture on Historic Preservation in Apalachicola, supported by a guided museum tour and video
8:45 am to 10:30am
Location: Apalachicola Art Museum
The featured speaker is Willoughby Marshall
Participants are provided golf carts for travel throughout the Symposium.

Panel discussion depicting the passion for preservation shared by our three featured panelists
10:45am to 12:30pm
Location: Holy Family (a school begun by three African-American sisters of the Holy Family Order of New Orleans in 1920.
Featured panelists are Warren Emo, Beth LaCivita and Charles Olson. Participate in a discussion on our panelists' experiences (successes and challenges) in North Florida preservation projects.
- Warren Emo is a Tallahassee architect whose house, Chestnut House, is on this year's tour.
- Beth LaCivita guided the project that produced the Apalachicola design guidelines.
- Charles Olson is a Thomasville architect who work in preservation on a Florida state level before going into practice as a private architect.

Luncheon with lecture and stories on Florida's vernacular architecture: cracker architecture
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: The Owl Cafe
The featured speaker is Debbie Beard; she will speak about Florida cracker homes. Cracker architecture is characterized by metal roofs, raised floors, large porch areas (often wrapping around the entire home), and straight central hallways from the front to the back of the home (sometimes called "dog run" or "shotgun" hallways, similar to the shotgun house design).

Owner-facilitated tours of three historic Apalachicola renovations
2:15pm - 4:30pm
Locations: Featured locations and owners from the Nichols Building, the Chapman House and the Gibson Inn.
Constructed as early as 1857, this Symposium collection provides an enjoyable and educational tour of Classical Revivals and historic architecture.
 
Friday evening begins the Home & Garden Tour series of welcome events.