Curt Jonathan Gough DiCamillo
is a noted American 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
Historic
Houses and Collections (he's also a trustee of
the
American Friends of Attingham), a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts, and is listed in
Who's Who in
America and the
Social
Register, and a Fellow of
The Massachusetts
Historical Society. 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.