Lectures, papers, and courses
  • “Purcell & Elmslie: Spiritualistic Architecture,” at the annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Los Angeles, April 2009.
      
  • “Prairie School Architecture,” a four-session course presented as part of the University of Minnesota Extension Division’s “Compleat Scholar” program, October 2007 and May 2008.
      
  • “Theosophy and the Fourth Dimension in the Architecture of Purcell & Elmslie,” AIA/MN Annual Convention, October 2001.
      
  • "The Roots of the Arts and Crafts: John Ruskin's Six Precepts of Architecture," Chicago Art Institute, August 18, 1999
      
  • “The Arts and Crafts Work Ethic in the Edna S. Purcell House,” Minnesota Historical Society, September 13, 1997.
      
  • “Louis Sullivan and His Followers in Minnesota," North Hennepin Community College, November 5, 1996.
      
  • "Geoffrey Scott's The Architecture of Humanism, A Book Report Turned in Eighty-one Years Late," Minnesota Chapter of Society of Architectural Historians, December 6, 1995.
      
  • Panelist, Minnesota Museum of Art architect selection, July 1991.
      
  • "Frank Lloyd Wright: The Problem of Genius," Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Minneapolis, MN, May 23, 1995 …Minnesota Conference on the Gifted and Talented, Minneapolis, MN, July 14, 1987.
      
  • "The International Arts and Crafts Movement," John Ruskin Society of the Twin Cities, August 17, 1992.
      
  • "Purcell & Elmslie's Edna S. Purcell House," Friends of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, St. Cloud, MN, January 25, 1988.