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By Jeff Groff, Director of Interpretation and Estate Historian, Innovation and speed were the keystones of American life in the early twentieth century with the wealthy embracing every new means of transportation to move about\u2014and to show off their success.\u00a0 At their country places, new types of buildings were designed to house their automobiles, and an important new type of servant was added to the estate\u00a0 staff list\u2014chauffeur.\u00a0 Jeff Groff, director of interpretation & estate historian at Winterthur, will explore the design and function of these early garages; their evolution into key estate\u00a0 features; and the need to define the chauffeur\u2019s duties, status, and relationship to fellow servants and employers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Jeff Groff, Director of Interpretation and Estate Historian, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library Tuesday, April 4 at 6:00 p.m. Room B-3, Meyerson Hall, Univ of Pennsylvania Free and open to all.\u00a0 Seating is first come, first served.\u00a0 No registration required. Innovation and speed were the keystones of American life in the early twentieth century […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,8,11,16],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-programs","tag-american-estates","tag-architecture","tag-carriage-houses","tag-garages"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8UMFt-7v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWinterthur Museum, Garden & Library
\nTuesday, April 4 at 6:00 p.m.
\n<\/strong>Room B-3, Meyerson Hall, Univ of Pennsylvania
\nFree and open to all.\u00a0 Seating is first come, first served.\u00a0 No registration required.<\/p>\n