Join local historians and neighborhood experts for enlightening strolls through the downtown area. This month…
Springfield’s Gilded Age: Art & Architecture from a Most Prosperous Period
with Westfield Athenaeum Executive Director Guy McLain
This unique walking tour will feature art and architecture across Springfield’s metropolitan landscape. During the Gilded Age, Springfield citizens founded most of the cultural institutions, monuments, and civic buildings that still serve the City today. The City Beautiful Movement also influenced art and architecture at this time. This movement advocated for civic structures that brought extraordinary beauty and cohesion to American cities. Springfield fully embraced the principles of this movement, and as a result, some of the most beautiful buildings in the City today were products of this time.
The tour departs from the Springfield Museums Welcome Center.
Second Saturday Walking Tours are co-presented by Springfield Preservation Trust and generously sponsored by the Daboul Family Charitable Trust.
