Adele Chatfield-Taylor

Background

Chatfield-Taylor, Adele was born on January 29, 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Hobart Chatfield-Taylor and Mary Owen (Lyon) C.-T.

Education

Bachelor, Manhattanville College, 1966. Master of Science in History Preservation, Columbia University, 1974. Postgraduate, Harvard University, 1979.

Doctor of Arts (honorary), Lake Forest College, 1995.

Career

Architectural historian History American Building Survey, Washington, 1967. Co-founder, director Urban Deadline Architects, Inc., 1968-1973. With New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1973-1980.

Founder, executive director New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation, 1980-1984. Director design arts program National Endowment for Arts, 1984-1988. President American Academy in Rome, New York City, since 1988.

Adjunct professor history preservation program Graduate School Architect and Planning, Columbia University, 1976-1984. Guest lecturer Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, New York University, University Virginia.

Achievements

• Chatfield-Taylor received a B.A. from Manhattanville College in 1966 and an M.S. from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Historic Preservation at Columbia University in 1974. From 1973 to 1980, she was on the staff of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1978-1979 and Executive Director of the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation from 1980 to 1984. From 1984 to 1988, she was director of the Design Arts Program for the National Endowment for the Arts, where she helped establish the Mayors' Institute on City Design in 1986. She was a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 1983-1984, conducting a comparative analysis of American and Italian preservation practices. Appointed president of the American Academy in 1988, Chatfield-Taylor oversaw the rehabilitation of its historic buildings and grounds and led a highly successful fundraising campaign to secure the institution's solvency. She was a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities from 1983 to 1990 and a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1990 to 1994, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. In 2002, Chatfield-Taylor was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. In 2010, she was awarded the Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum.

Membership

Member Thomas Jefferson Foundation for Monticello, since 2001. Board director Preservation ACTION, 1976—1984, International Design Conference, Aspen, 1986—1990, National Building Museum, 1989—1995. Trustee Center for Building Conservation, 1978—1984, Tiber Island History Museum, since 1983, National Trust for History Preservation, since 1999.

Member United States delegate to China Women in Architect, 1977, 1980, History Preservationists, 1982. Member executive committee United States/International Coun.on Monuments and Sites, 1979—1984. Vice chairman design arts policy panel United States/International Council on Monuments and Sites, 1978—1982.

Member commission Fine Arts, 1990—1994. Member restoration committee South St. Seaport Museum, 1975—1984. Member advisory board Jeffersonian Restoration, since 1989.

Board director Greenwich Village Trust for History Preservation, 1983—1984. Trustee Institute Classical Architecture and Classical American, since 2002. Member lawn advisory board University Virginia, 1982—1986.

Fellow American Academy Arts & Sciences. Member National Trust History Preservation, Friends of Cast Iron Architect, Metropolitan Museum Art, Century Association, Pug Dog Club of Greater New York.

Connections

Married John Guare, May 20, 1981.

Father:

Hobart Chatfield-Taylor C.-T.

Mother:

Mary Owen (Lyon) C.-T.

Spouse:

JohnGuare