{"id":15409,"date":"2025-04-07T14:50:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/?p=15409"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:14:25","slug":"vaf-ne-conference-features-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/2025\/04\/07\/vaf-ne-conference-features-program\/","title":{"rendered":"VAF-NE Conference Features Program!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Ian Stevenson \/ April 7, 2025<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, April 5, 2025, the Vernacular Architecture Forum, New England Chapter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vafweb.org\/NE\">VAF-NE<\/a>) held its annual conference in downtown Providence, Rhode Island.\u00a0 BU\u2019s Preservation Studies Program was well represented! Lecturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/profile\/aaron-ahlstrom\/\">Aaron Ahlstrom<\/a> was installed at the chapter\u2019s new president. Lecturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/profile\/sara-wermiel\/\">Sara Wermiel<\/a> delivered a fascinating paper titled \u201cIntroduction of Arched Window Openings in New England\u2019s Nineteenth-Century Textile Factories.\u201d And student Hillary Hedges Rayport delivered her paper, \u201cCopying Perfection: Analysis and Inspiration for Subdivisions on Nantucket Island,\u201d which was originally developed in her coursework under Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/profile\/william-moore\/\">William D. Moore<\/a>. Congratulations, all!<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/preservation\/files\/2025\/04\/Picture1-650x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/files\/2025\/04\/Picture1-650x400.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/files\/2025\/04\/Picture1-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/files\/2025\/04\/Picture1-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/files\/2025\/04\/Picture1-800x493.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/files\/2025\/04\/Picture1.jpg 1430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Ian Stevenson \/ April 7, 2025 On Saturday, April 5, 2025, the Vernacular Architecture Forum, New England Chapter (VAF-NE) held its annual conference in downtown Providence, Rhode Island.\u00a0 BU\u2019s Preservation Studies Program was well represented! Lecturer Aaron Ahlstrom was installed at the chapter\u2019s new president. Lecturer Sara Wermiel delivered a fascinating paper titled \u201cIntroduction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15410,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15409\/revisions\/15410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}