Study Tours & Symposia
The Victorian Society holds two study programs each year focused on Victorian architecture, art, landscape, and preservation in cities and regions across North America. Participants enjoy lectures by leading scholars, private tours of historic sites, engaging social experiences, and opportunities to get behind the scenes at museums and galleries. Recent programs include Savannah, Saint Augustine, Los Angeles, and New York City.
2024 SPRING STUDY TOUR
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
EXPLORING THE CHARMS OF “CHARM CITY” AND BEYOND
MAY 15-18, 2024
Please join us for our Spring Study Tour to Baltimore, MD May 15-18, 2024, when we will explore the charms of “Charm City” and some of its distinctive neighborhoods.
This experience includes guided tours on foot, historic home visits, opening and closing dinners, and a trip to the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. Our headquarters hotel is the historic Hotel Revival. .
See our tour brochure below for full tour details with registration and hotel reservation information.
Registration is now open. As this Study Tour is limited to 50 participants, we strongly recommend that all members who plan to attend register with the Society as soon as possible.
We’re looking forward to seeing you in Baltimore in May!
Past Study Tours
| 2023 | |
| 2022 | |
| 2019 |
Chicago, Illinois |
| 2018 |
Frank Lloyd Wright and His Victorian Roots (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| 2017 | |
| 2016 | |
| 2015 |
Anthracite Architecture: Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania |
| 2014 | |
| 2013 | |
| 2012 |
San Antonio, Texas |
| 2011 |
Portland, Oregon |
| 2010 | Albany, New York New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 2009 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin Cincinnati, Ohio |
| 2008 | Napa, California Bermuda |
| 2007 | Mobile, Alabama Connecticut River Valley |
| 2006 | St. Louis, Missouri Rhinebeck, New York New Bedford, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island |
| 2005 | San Juan, Puerto Rico Rhinebeck, New York |
| 2004 | Santa Fe, New Mexico British Columbia |
| 2003 | Buffalo, New York Detroit, Michigan |
| 2002 | Louisville, Kentucky Akron, Ohio |
| 2001 | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Lake Champlain, New York & Vermont |
| 2000 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pasadena & Los Angeles, California Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1999 | St. Paul, Minnesota Morristown, New Jersey |
| 1998 | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 1997 | Chicago, Illinois |
| 1996 | Richmond, Virginia |
| 1995 | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Cincinnati, Ohio Lexington & Pleasant Hill, Kentucky: Study Tour & Symposium | |
| 1994 | San Francisco, California |
| 1993 | Savannah and Jekyll Island, Georgia |
| 1992 | Nashville, Tennessee |
| 1991 | Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania |
| 1990 | New Orleans, Louisiana and Natchez, MS |
| 1989 | St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1988 | Charleston, South Carolina |
| 1987 | Toronto, Ontario |
| 1986 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1985 | Des Moines, Iowa |
| 1984 | Richmond, Virginia |
| 1983 | New York, New York |
| 1982 | Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1981 | Newport, Rhode Island |
| 1980 | Denver, Colorado |
| 1979 | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| 1978 | Washington, District of Columbia |
| 1977 | Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1976 | Savannah, Georgia |
| 1975 | Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1974 | Athenaeum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1973 | Athenaeum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1972 | Athenaeum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1971 | Athenaeum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1970 | Athenaeum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1969 | Grolier Club, New York, New York (First Annual Meeting) |
| 1966 | Tarrytown, New York (First Fall Study Tour) |
Past Symposia
| 2019 | Eat, Drink & Be Merry: Servants, Kitchens, and Dining in the Victorian Era: co-sponsored with the Glessner House |
| 2017 | Richmond, Virginia: co-sponsored with Maymont |
| 2014 | Chicago, Illinois: co-sponsored with Glessner House |
| 2012 | Chicago, Illinois: co-sponsored with Glessner House |
| 2004 | Winterthur, Delaware co-sponsored with Winterthur |
| 2001 | Chicago, Illinois: co-sponsored with The Crab Tree Foundation |
| 2000 | Wilmington, Delaware: co-sponsored with The Delaware At Museum |
| 1999 | Washington, DC: co-sponsored with Tudor Place Foundation and the DAR Museum |
| 1998 | Long Island, New York: co-sponsored with The Museums at Stony Brook |
| 1998 | Oxford, Ohio: co-sponsored with Miami University & De Montford University |
| 1997 | Washington, District of Columbia: co-sponsored with The National Portrait Gallery |
| 1996 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: co-sponsored with The Athenaeum of Philadelphia |
| 1996 | Hartford, Connecticut: at The Wadsworth Athenaeum |
| 1995 | Washington, District of Columbia: and cemetery tours in Washington & Baltimore |
| 1995 | Norwalk, Connecticut: co-sponsored with The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum |
| 1995 | Ho-Ho Kus, New Jersey at The Hermitage: co-sponsored with Victorian Homes magazine |
| 1995 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at The Mask & Wig Club |
| 1993 | New York, New York at New York Historical Society |
| 1993 | Winterthur, Delaware: co-sponsored with Winterthur |
| 1989 | New York, New York at Pierpont Morgan Library: Alumni Association symposium |
| 1988 | Chicago. Illinois: 1987 New York, New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| 1986 | Corning, New York at Corning Museum of Glass |
| 1985 | The Art Nouveau Movement |
| 1984 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1983 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1982 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1981 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1980 | Wilmington, Delaware at the Grand Opera House |
| 1979 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1978 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the College of Physicians |
| 1977 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1976 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1975 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Academy of Music workshop |
| 1974 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Athenaeum workshop |
| 1973 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges |
| 1972 | Riverdale and Yonkers, New York |
| 1971 | Boston, Massachusetts University Seminar |
| 1970 | Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1969 | Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1968 | Tarrytown, New York |
| 1967 | Newport, Rhode Island |