UB to co-sponsor conference of Wright Building Conservancy

The ninth annual conference of The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, a national organization of Wright homeowners and preservationists, will be held Sept. 17-21 in the Buffalo Hilton. UB will co-sponsor the meeting. The first vice-president of the organization is Jack Quinan, professor and chair of the UB Department of Art History and curator of the Darwin D. Martin House, one of the finest of Wright's "prairie" houses, which is owned by the university and is currently undergoing restoration.

The conference will include presentations by distinguished speakers on aspects of preservation and the history of Wright's architecture, and a symposium of noted scholars and preservationists, led by Quinan and Neil Levine of Harvard University.

Among the activities planned are tours of the Darwin Martin complex built in 1903-05; Graycliff, the rarely viewed home that Wright designed for the Martins in Derby in 1927; other Wright-designed homes in Buffalo and Rochester and tours of other architectural highlights