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A Brief CV for Curt DiCamillo
 

Curt Jonathan Gough DiCamillo is a noted architectural historian. Before accepting his current position as Executive Director of The National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA in 2004, he worked for thirteen years for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and taught on the subject of British historic houses at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

DiCamillo is an authority on the British country house and has written and lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad on the subject. Since 1999 he has maintained an award-winning database on the Web, The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses. The database seeks to document every English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish country house ever built, standing or demolished. This ground-breaking scholarly project is unique in its scope and is of international importance.

In recognition of his work in helping to preserve historic British buildings, Curt has been presented to the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother,and the Prince of Wales. He is a member of The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, an alumnus of The Attingham Summer School for the Study of Country Houses, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and is listed in the Social Register and the Heritage Registry of Who’s Who. DiCamillo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in nearby Merion, Pennsylvania and Clermont, Florida; he currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Curt is the brother of award-winning children’s book author Kate DiCamillo.


Curt in front of the sublime facade of Wentworth Woodhouse,
South Yorkshire, England, Aug 2008.
Wentworth Woodhouse has the longest facade (over 600 feet, see photo below)
of any private house in Britain and contains 365 rooms and 1,000 windows.

 

Michael Hall, writing in "The English Country House from the Archives of Country Life, 1897-1939," states that Wentworth Woodhouse is "One of the wonders of English architecture."

 


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