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Author Talk & Signing: Discovering the True Legacies of the Deyerle Builders
Venue: Christiansburg Library, Christiansburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Sunday, April 22, 2012
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
Author and Architectural Historian Michael Pulice will be at the Christiansburg Library on Sunday, April 22 at 2:00 pm to share slides and stories about the buildings that inspired his recent book, Nineteenth-Century Brick Architecture in the Roanoke Valley and Beyond: Discovering the True Legacies of the Deyerle Builders, published by the Historical Society of Western Virginia.

Books will be available for purchase.

Mr. Pulice earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology/Anthropology from Radford University and Master of Architecture degree from Virginia Tech. He has held the position of architectural historian for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources’ Western Regional Office, in Salem, since 2001.

His presentation, cosponsored by the Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center, will include references to many local buildings such as the Christiansburg Presbyterian Church, completed in 1853, as well as the church manse which later became the Pepper House and now serves as the Montgomery Museum. Other buildings to be discussed are the Bank of Christiansburg, built in 1855 and demolished in 1963, and the Lafayette A.M.E. Church, built circa 1848.

An exhibit of photographs, on loan from the Historical Society of Western Virginia, is on display at the Christiansburg Library through April 22. The Montgomery Museum will house the exhibit from April 23 through April 30. The exhibit is sponsored by the Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation, the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library, and the Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center.

For more information, visit: http://www.montgomery-floyd.lib.va.us or call: (540) 382-6965.