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Richard Candee visits Pierce Law IP Library Patent Model Collection

Author Richard M. Candee is Director, Preservation Studies and Professor of American and New England Studies at Boston University. He is also Director of the J.D./M.A. Joint Degree program in Law and Historic Preservation at B.U.. He recently met with Professor Jon Cavicchi in the IP Library at Pierce Law to study and photograph the Straight Knitting Machine patent model, U. S. Patent 55,420, issued June 5, 1866 to Rev. M.T. Lamb, Valparaiso, Indiana.

Professor Candee is writing a book on the history of knitting machines. This trip follows up a visit to the Lemelson Center in Washington, DC, where he studied other such patent models. The Straight Knitting Machine invention made improvements to the Lamb Knitting Machine invented by the inventor's brother, Isaac W. Lamb. The earlier invention was widely used and won many National and International awards. It was manufactured in Chicopee Falls, Mass., and a number of European countries.

The 28" x 13" x 6" long model is black painted metal with a wood handle. The metal is ornately painted with red decorations and two hand painted crests showing a lion on one side and a lamb on the other (representing the Lamb Knitting Machine.) The number "85" on one of the two brass plates attached to the model appears to indicate this machine was the 85th of 100 machines contracted to be built by Sessions, Arey & Co. of Springfield, Mass.

Professor Candee has had a long and interesting career. While architectural historian at Old Sturbridge Village, in Massachusetts he developed a Preservation Management Seminar which was taught at Boston University during 1975. In 1976, he left the Museum to form his own consulting practice after finishing his doctoral dissertation on the seventeenth-century architecture of Maine and New Hampshire. The author of an ever growing number of articles and papers, in 1984 he published a monograph on Atlantic Heights, a WW1 shipbuilding housing project in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. An article on the architects Kilham and Hopkins co-authored with Greer Hardwicke appeared in Winterthur Portfolio (Spring 1987). After a year's sabbatical in 1991, his book Building Portsmouth: The Neighborhoods and Architecture of New Hampshire's Oldest City, expanded the tour notes for the 1992 Vernacular Architecture Forum conference.

He was Curator for the Maine Humanities Council's exhibition "From Revolution to Statehood: Maine Towns, Maine People, 1783-1820." His essays have appeared in Agreeable Situations, a catalog of Federal era Maine collections, and in Maine in the Early Republic. Similarly, an NEH project with Sarah Giffen and Kevin Murphy ('85) for the Old York Historical Society led to an exhibit and catalog, 'A Noble and Dignified Stream':The Piscataqua Region in the Colonial Revival, 1860-1930. He also provided an essay for John Garner's The Company Town just published by Oxford University Press and a brief essay for the 1992 NH Historical Society/NH Forest Society prizewinning exhibit catalog At What Cost? Shaping the Land We Call New Hampshire.

Professor Candee has also assisted Master Planning for Grove Farm Plantation in Hawaii, the National Trust's Property Woodlawn Plantation, the New Hampshire Farm Museum, and the Essex Institute's period buildings. In addition to National Register Surveys of several northern New England industrial cities and towns, his consulting also includes thematic and multiple-resource surveys, several tax-act certifications, and determination of eligibility to the National Register.

He has been a trustee of several organizations, including the SPNEA, the former Essex Institute, Historic Massachusetts, Inc., the National Council of Preservation Educators, the Committee for a New England Bibliography, the Maine Council of the SPNEA, as well as a founder and past president of the New England Chapter of both the Society of Architectural Historians and the national Society for Industrial Archaeology. Former treasurer and vice chairman of Preservation Action, he is a past president of the Portsmouth (NH) Athenaeum, an overseer at the Peabody & Essex Museums, 1991-93 president of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, and chair of the SAH Preservation Commission.

Professor Candee heads the J.D./M.A. Program in Law and Historic Preservation. Historic preservation is both a popular movement and a specialized field. Although it may once have represented only an informal, private decision by the owner of an individual building, historic preservation now involves individuals, private agencies, and various government units in the complex issues of zoning, financing, and community planning.

Through a program that was the first of its kind in the country, Boston University is playing a significant role in educating preservation professionals. An interdisciplinary program involving both the School of Law and the American and New England Studies Program of the Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences allows students to complete both programs in seven semesters, instead of the nine semesters it would take if the two degrees were pursued independently.

Professor Candee can be contacted at rcandee@bu.edu

His book Atlantic Heights, a World War I Shipbuilders' Community (Publication, 7) by Richard M. Candee

Hardcover: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 10.50 x 7.50
Publisher: Portsmouth Marine Society; (April 1985)
ISBN: 0915819066

is available on Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0915819066/qid%3D1065711743/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-9011493-9237552

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