Degrees:
M.A., Univ. of Delaware
B.A., Trinity College
Willie Granston is a graduate of Trinity College, earned his MA from the University of Delaware, where he studied in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and is currently a doctoral candidate at Boston University. His dissertation, “‘Like it Growed There’: Resort Architecture and the New England Landscape, 1875-1915,” reconsiders northeastern resort buildings and the relationship between these buildings, their sites, and widely-held anxieties surrounding the changing New England landscape.
With a background in museums and curating, Willie’s classes interrogate objects of all types - from furniture to paintings to buildings - as pieces of evidence capable of providing insight into the values and beliefs of those responsible for their creation, use, and preservation. Studying historical trajectories through architecture, art, and material culture, Willie encourages students to consider the social, political, and historical influences that shape the objects and built environments we experience and inhabit.
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American art and architectural history
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Material culture
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Landscape history
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History of collecting
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American decorative arts
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Political implications of architecture
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AHIS-286
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Modern Architecture: 1900 to the Present
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Architects and the design process
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Commemoration and memory
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Transmission and spread of architectural designs
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History of tourism
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Real estate and speculative developments
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Building materials, sources, and finishes
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- David W. Granston III, “Speculating on Scenery: Downeast Maine’s Resort
Development Boom, 1880-1900,” Sullivan-Sorrento Historical Society, June
2, 2021.
- David W. Granston III, “Memory, Materiality, and Meaning in Hartford’s Church of the Good Shepherd,” Nineteenth Century 40, no. 1 [Spring 2020]: 2-13.
- “Reconsidering the Architecture of the Vacation, 1865-1945,” 73rd Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Seattle, Washington, April 29-May 3, 2020 [panel organized by David W. Granston III and C. Ian Stevenson]
- David W. Granston III, “A Story of Sunshine and Shadow: Elizabeth H. Colt and the Crafting of the Colt Legacy in Hartford,” National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, William Hickling Prescott House, Boston, Massachusetts, February 5, 2020.
- Mitchell Owens, “Episode 3 - The All-American Elegance of the Shingle Style.” Podcast with David. W. Granston III, Thomas Kligerman, and Robert A.M. Stern. Produced by Diane Dragan and Emma Wartzman, Architectural Digest. The AD Aesthete Podcast. October 17, 2019. www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-ad-aesthete-podcast-season-1.
- David W. Granston III, “Like it Growed There”: Architecture and the Environment on Mount Desert Island, 1880-1940,” Chebacco, Mount Desert Island Historical Society XVIII [2017]: 20-38.
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- Robert Rettig Student Annual Meeting Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter, 2020
- Newport Summer School Fellowship, Victorian Society in America, 2017
- Coco Kim Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, 2015-2016?
- Lois F. McNeil Fellowship, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, 2014-2016
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