Kathryn Holliday

@kehcalling.bsky.social

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Architecture and landscape history, Historic preservation, museums, and cultural heritage. Biallas Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Transplant from Texas and New Orleans. Working on Telephone City 📞

Photograph of a three-story warehouse building with Gothic revival details on the second and third stories, and cast iron columns with wide doors between them on the ground floor
Page spread from The Elements of Construction showing Ricker's diagrams for foundations
Photograph of a book cover for The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the University of Illinois, shown in front of the main entrance to the Architecture Building and Ricker Library on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus
Detail from a page from McCall's Magazine showing a bedroom for three boys with three beds with yellow mattresses, a three-part cabinet with red, yellow, and blue drawer faces, and a full wall graphic showing a map of the United States outlined in blue
Photograph of a newspaper article from the Champaign News-Gazette showing the Economy House designed by architect John Replinger in 1953
A photograph of an installation showing a large hand-woven tapestry with jewel tones of orange, red, purple, blue, olive, and brown hanging on a white-painted wall adjacent to a vitrine showing an artist's sketchbook
Photograph of the front face of a house showing a two story brick wall with no windows, a yard of river stones, and a small cedar tree
Photograph in black and white showing two dancers in leotards in simple dance positions, posing inside a modern home, in front of a suspended fire hood and double height loft
View of a museum gallery with white walls with a photograph and abstract sculpture being installed
A building with tall red and blue exhaust pipes